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On 7 December 2016, web site LifeNews.com reported that anti-abortion groups had pressured retail chain Macy's into dropping its support for reproductive health organization Planned Parenthood: LifeNews.com appears to have sourced its claims to anti-abortion group 2ndVote rather than any firsthand information from Macy's. We attempted to independently confirm that Macy's had ever supported for Planned Parenthood, and turned up news items from a period in July 2015 when Donald Trump sent a tweet claiming Macy's funded Planned Parenthood: In July 2015, Macy's pulled Trump's merchandise from its stores over an unrelated controversy, releasing the following statement: During the same time period, Planned Parenthood was making separate headlines over a series of undercover videos (which have since been discredited) captured in a sting perpetrated by an anti-abortion group. Trump did not cite his claims that Macy's supported Planned Parenthood in the tweet, and we found nothing suggesting that the assertion was true. One month later, an individual contacted several companies to ask whether they provided funds to Planned Parenthood. A statement from Macy's denied the claim: We have contacted Macy's about the claim, but have not yet received a response. However, the December 2016 controversy would not be the first time that a company was erroneously accused of donating to Planned Parenthood. Olive Garden was falsely accused of donating to the organization in a similar social media frenzy; the claims were false. The 2015 Macy's statement reproduced here suggests that the company does not and did not fund Planned Parenthood, and we could find no evidence to the contrary.
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