The following Texas legislative session is seven months away, so “swift” motion is unquestionably an exaggeration.
If Texas Republicans go this legislation, they’re going to be attacking lots of the identical corporations they’ve bragged about drawing to their state. When Tesla introduced it could transfer its headquarters to Austin, Gov. Gregg Abbott attributed the move to CEO Elon Musk seeing the state as a spot for innovation and transformation. “He is aware of he has a greater capacity to try this in Texas with the freedoms that we provide him, with the low prices that we provide him, than he does elsewhere, like California,” Abbott mentioned.
Freedoms, eh? Tesla is among the many corporations which have mentioned they are going to cowl workers’ prices in touring out-of-state for abortion care, and now Texas Republicans are threatening to bar such corporations from doing enterprise in Texas.
Other companies which have made related commitments embrace Amazon, the second-largest employer in the USA; courting apps Bumble, based mostly in Austin, and Match, based mostly in Dallas; Levi Strauss; Salesforce; Yelp; and Starbucks. That might be a whole lot of main corporations for Republicans to ban from doing enterprise in Texas over their inner abortion-related insurance policies, and would create an fascinating problem for Abbott and future Texas governors hoping to lure new companies into the state by promising “freedom.”
The backdrop of all of this, although, is the willpower of Republican lawmakers in Texas and different states to make pregnant individuals undergo, inserting the state’s management of pregnant our bodies above each different precedence. It is already working. It’s not sufficient for them.
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