A shopping company that consolidates “values-aligned businesses” into an online marketplace is offering “baby bonuses” to employees who choose to have babies or adopt.
“We … just implemented a policy where we will pay our employees a $5,000 bonus when they have a baby or adopt,” said Michael Seifert, founder and CEO of PublicSq.
PublicSq.’s website bills the company as as “Pro-Life, Pro-Family, Pro-Freedom,” and the “largest network of patriot-owned businesses.” According to its CEO, the company enables consumers to “find high-quality alternatives to woke corporations.”
The policy was implemented in response to news of companies that will cover expenses for employees who travel from states such as Texas, where abortion is illegal, to obtain the procedure.
“While some companies in America pay their employees to kill their unborn children, we pay ours to have as many babies as possible,” he said on Twitter last week.
In a Sunday interview with Fox & Friends Weekend, Seifert said three pregnancies have been announced among staff within the last month.
“Ultimately, a company is only as strong as the families that built it,” he asserted. “We’re a pro-family company.”
After the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, several corporations announced they would cover travel expenses for employees who live in states where abortions are banned.
For example, Amazon will reimburse up to $4,000 in travel expenses, and Target expanded its healthcare travel reimbursement to include abortions.
“We wanted to sing an opposite tune and actually … put $5,000 behind any of our employees that were to have a baby, their spouse’s have a baby, or they were to adopt,” Seifert told Fox.
Furthermore, he claimed the companies who offer travel reimbursements to employees who receive abortions merely “pretend to care about women’s healthcare.”
“At the end of the day, they just don’t want to pay maternity leave,” Seifert said, per Fox. “They are more afraid of losing the monetary value that their employees provide, so they would rather choose that than they would to empower the growth of these families.”
However, companies covering abortion costs maintain they are looking out for the best interests of their employees.
Patagonia said in a statement last June that “caring for employees extends beyond basic health insurance.”
“That means offering employees the dignity of access to reproductive health care,” the statement continued. “It means supporting employees’ choices around if or when they have a child. It means giving parents the resources they need to work and raise children.”
The Dallas Express reached out to PublicSq. for additional comment but received no response by press time.
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