FRONT ROYAL, Va., Jan. 12, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-life group that keeps track of businesses that financially support Planned Parenthood has released a list of airlines and D.C.-area hotels and restaurants that are boycott targets, just in time for the 2011 National March for Life.
“We are asking pro-life people who will be participating in the March for Life to boycott the hotel chains and restaurants that have refused to end corporate funding to Planned Parenthood,” said Kenneth C. Garvey, LDI’s Director of Communications. “If you plan to stay in a boycotted hotel and it is impossible to change your plans, let the company know you will not be back unless it agrees to stop donating to Planned Parenthood.”
Offending hotels in D.C. including Courtyard, Doubletree, Four Seasons, Mariott, and others. Offending restaurants include Bar Rouge, Firefly, Poste Brasserie and others.
“Between the release of the July 2010 and December 2010 editions [of the boycott list], more corporations agreed to stop funding the pro-abortion group than ever before,” said Garvey. “As a direct result of the commitment, action and prayers of pro-family people, at least 274 corporations have stopped funding Planned Parenthood.”
According to LDI it is estimated that the boycott has cost Planned Parenthood more than $40 million since the Corporate Funding Project began.
“This is a simple way for every pro-life person to do something tangible for the Pro-Life Movement,” Garvey said. “The boycott has been one of the most effective strategies in the history of the Movement and it is due to people who understand that the way they spend the money God has entrusted to them is important from both a moral and strategic point of view.”
For a list of airlines and Washington, D.C.-area hotels and restaurants that are boycott targets, click here. For more information about the Corporate Funding Project, including the steps taken before a corporation is placed on The Boycott List, click here.