People For Member,
S.B. 8, the extreme Texas law banning abortion, is now officially in effect. Now right-wing lawmakers across the country have become emboldened to pass similar legislation in states like Florida, Arkansas, South Carolina, and others.
And despite the national outcry over these barbaric measures, corporations that once claimed to be supportive of reproductive health and gender equity are now astonishingly silent – and still cutting checks to some of the very politicians that supported S.B.8 and laws like it.
Corporations already have an enormous and deeply problematic influence in our government, but when they’re helping to fund the campaigns of anti-choice zealots in state legislatures across the country, we must speak out against it even louder.
Astonishingly, in the last year alone corporations have given more than $5.9 MILLION to the Texas legislators who sponsored S.B.8.[1] Of those companies, more than 86 of them are on the Fortune 500 list.
It’s inexcusable that these corporations say one thing about their support for reproductive health while their actions (and money) prove otherwise.
While we continue fighting to eliminate the influence of corporations and secret money in our government, we need to increase public pressure on them to stop donating to far-right politicians who enact laws like S.B.8.
Thanks for all that you do.
In solidarity,
Zach, People For the American Way
[1] "Corporate Political Spending in Texas" Ultraviolet, 8/2/21
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