Pfizer Inc.

Washington D.C.
Pharmaceuticals Biotechnology and Life Sciences

Risk Level:

Rating - Danger
High Risk

Summary:

Pfizer will not work with vendors that lack an LGBTQ nondiscrimination policy. Pfizer has used its corporate and political contributions to advance ideological causes, groups, and policies. Pfizer funds the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Planned Parenthood and endorses the Equality Act. Pfizer's leadership has been outspoken on topics such as transgender activism. Pfizer promotes critical race theory and lacks viewpoint protections for employees. For these reasons, Pfizer receives a "High Risk" rating.

Criteria
Risk Level
Rationale
Corporate Weaponization
Criteria

Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level
Rationale

Pfizer has not publicly terminated business relationships due to religious beliefs or political views. The company received a score of 100 on the Corporate Equality Index from the HRC. Among other requirements, this means Pfizer has pledged to vet vendors based on LGBTQ policies. Pfizer has also added “opportunity parity goals” for 2025. Essentially amounting to race-based hiring quotas, these goals include “increasing our minority representation from 19% to 32% and doubling the underrepresented population of African Americans/Blacks and Hispanics/Latinos” (2)(3). Internal documents revealed specific race-based quotas for leadership teams. All of these efforts are playing out on top of Pfizer company events promoting critical race theory.

Criteria

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level
Rationale

Pfizer restricts charitable gift matching to religious groups, explicitly excluding churches and synagogues, and only allows gifts to faith-based organizations if the funds are not used for religious purposes (1).

Criteria

Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

Risk Level
Rationale

Pfizer does not protect its employees from viewpoint discrimination (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

Pfizer has signed open letters supporting the Equality Act and transgenders in youth sports (1)(2). Pfizer’s CEO also initially condemned Georgia’s voting integrity law but later appeared to retract said position (3). Pfizer opposed the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, which prohibits teaching gender identity and sexual orientation in schools to kids in K-3rd grade (4).

Criteria

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

Pfizer is a National Sponsor of the HRC (1). Pfizer also donates to Planned Parenthood via a specific employee gift-matching program (2). Pfizer pledged over $7 million to the Black Lives Matter movement and related causes (3)(4).

Criteria

Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level
Rationale

Pfizer used to donate in a bipartisan manner consistent with its business interests, but it weaponized its PAC by cutting off donations to Republican election objectors (1)(2)(3). Pfizer’s PAC has resumed bipartisan giving but has also donated to ideological PACs such as the Equality PAC (4).

All links were last accessed and all information was updated on:
March 29, 2023

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