Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-TX) praised a Thursday decision by Texas’s 15th Court of Appeals that temporarily blocks San Antonio from funding out-of-state abortion travel with taxpayer dollars.
The case concerns an ordinance the San Antonio City Council passed that allocated $100,000 to the city’s Reproductive Justice Health Care Fund in support of out-of-state abortion travel.
Paxton sued San Antonio in April, arguing the city had no legal authority to use taxpayer funds for a purpose that violated the state’s anti-abortion laws. The city also violated the Texas Constitution’s gift clause, which prohibits the misuse of public funds for private purposes.
The appellate court agreed with Paxton’s argument in its decision, which supersedes a trial court’s order that dismissed Paxton’s lawsuit.
“We conclude that the State
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