Companies Stay Quiet on Texas' New Abortion Law
Source: New York Times
When Texas lawmakers advanced a restrictive voting rights bill this year, American Airlines and Dell Technologies, two of the state’s biggest employers, were early and vocal critics of the effort. But this week, as a law that prohibits most abortions after about six weeks took effect in Texas, both companies declined to comment on the measure.
...Two dozen major companies contacted by The New York Times on Friday either did not reply or declined to comment. Among those that would not say something were McDonald’s, a sponsor of International Women’s Day; PwC, a major supporter of diversity and inclusion efforts; and Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines, which led a corporate backlash last year against a restrictive voting bill in Georgia, where they have their headquarters.
Many of the biggest employers in Texas, including AT&T, Oracle, McKesson and Phillips 66, declined to comment. Even companies that are quick to speak up on social issues, including Patagonia and Levi’s, did not say anything about the new law. And Catalyst, a nonprofit organization that teams up with big companies to “build workplaces that work for women,” declined to comment.
“When all of these companies who participate in things like International Women’s Day won’t speak out on reproductive health care, it shows that they care about the bottom line, not what women need and want,” said Lindsey Taylor Wood, chief executive of The Helm, a venture capital firm that funds female founders.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/03/business/companies-texas-sb8-abortion-law.html
These companies need to be dragged kicking and screaming into taking a stand through boycotts, protests outside their corporate headquarters, and more.
Can anybody post a list of email land phone contacts for Texas-based companies?
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going into the state to play, and they should not be allowed to go out of state to play other teams....with there silence they are condoning what that state does to another human being rights to privacy, and the simple fact that greed over rides privacy with their non action......they are in essence supporting vigilante justice...
national optics of bad press, and so they're quiet. They are not hurt so much by boycotts.
You can type each of these into Wikipedia and get their location, name of CEO and then find a phone number on Google maps for them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T
Here's a list of headquarters.
https://www.ranker.com/list/companies-headquartered-in-texas/the-working-man
Here are their deregulated untilities
Here are IT sector companies
All kinds of sectors exist in Texas. Most of the above companies are full of the people that voted for state house people who wrote and voted for the law, and people who voted for Democrats.
Who is going to drag a fictional personhood kicking and screaming into taking a stand? Their share holders? Employees? Worldwide consumers?
The best we can do is look the state house people up on donation sites like Open Secrets and see which companies' $$ they get, which companies donate to which persons, maybe correlate those companies' donations with other donations they make in other anti-abortion states to see if they show an abortion stance pattern. There's also On The Issues, where the interactive map gives state house members' positions. https://www.ontheissues.org/states/TX_Abortion.htm
