The 15th Court of Appeals has blocked a controversial San Antonio fund aimed at assisting women with out-of-state travel costs for abortions.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the City of San Antonio one day after the City Council narrowly approved $100,000 for a controversial fund that could help cover travel costs for women seeking legal abortions out of state.
San Antonio will make another attempt to help fund out-of-state travel for women seeking abortions. But whether any groups successfully apply for that money or are able to use it in the face of possible legal challenges remains to be seen.
District 10 Councilman Marc Whyte voiced strong opposition to efforts by several San Antonio City Council members to allocate city funds toward travel costs for abortion seekers.
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg joined the KSAT Q&A to discuss funding and the potential impact on the city’s future for the proposed downtown sports and entertainment district. Nirenberg also discusses about the Reproductive Justice Fund.
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg joined the KSAT Q&A to discuss funding and the potential impact on the city’s future for the proposed downtown sports and entertainment district. Nirenberg also discusses about the Reproductive Justice Fund.
About half the San Antonio City Council is pushing to find more money for the city’s Reproductive Justice Fund, which — this time — they want to actually fund travel costs for abortion seekers.
After more than a year of debates and a lawsuit, San Antonio City Council voted to approve the Reproductive Justice Fund. The fund won't cover travel costs for out-of-state abortions.
Less than a year after it was sued by anti-abortion groups, the City of San Antonio revealed its Reproductive Justice Fund probably won’t help women access abortion care after all.
A full budget year after they approved it, the San Antonio City Council is poised to discuss what the city’s controversial Reproductive Justice Fund will cover.
Some San Antonio City Council members say a city fund that, in part, could help cover the travel costs for women seeking legal, out-of-state abortions isn’t being rolled out quickly enough.
Most of the San Antonio City Council appears open to using at least part of the $500,000 Reproductive Justice Fund to help cover the costs of women traveling out of state to access legal abortions.
Anti-abortion groups sued the city in October, shortly after the city council created the new $500,000 Reproductive Justice Fund. The city has not determined how the money will be used, but groups like the San Antonio Family Association believe it’s meant to help women access legal, out-of-state abortions by covering their travel costs.
A pair of anti-abortion groups have sued the City of San Antonio over its newly created, still undefined “Reproductive Justice Fund,” which they worry could help women access out-of-state abortions.
The city council passed the $3.7 billion spending plan for fiscal year 2024 Thursday morning in a 10-0-1 vote. It will take effect Oct. 1 at the beginning of the 2024 fiscal year.
As the San Antonio City Council spent a second day debating last-minute tweaks to the city budget, a proposal that could help fund trips to out-of-state abortion clinics continued to be a point of contention.
Expanding a popular mental health team, creating a fund to help cover travel to out-of-state abortion clinics, and giving more money for Animal Care Services were among the most high-profile changes council members discussed making to the budget - largely favorably.
A coalition of groups supporting abortion rights has asked the City of San Antonio to set up a new $500,000 “Reproductive Justice Fund."