Abbott: Abortion law won’t slow down business in Texas

Republican legislatures and governors across the country have faced pushback from the business community on social and voting issues, including in Texas, where a bill that would have forced transgender Texans to use the bathroom of their biological sex tanked in 2017 amid heated opposition. Georgia also faced criticism this year after it enacted a voting bill that many labeled as restrictive, with pushback from Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines. Major League Baseball relocated its All-Star Game from Atlanta in opposition to the Georgia voting law.

Abbott, though, insisted that the new laws will have no impact on Texas’s ability to attract businesses to the state and that conservative policies are an incentive for some business leaders.

“Whether it be Elon Musk, who I’ve talked to frequently — Elon had to get out of California because in part of the social policies in California,” Abbott said of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who recently relocated from California. “And Elon consistently tells me that he likes the social policies in the state of Texas.”

Source:Politico