Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the city of San Antonio to block taxpayer funding for women seeking to travel out-of-state for abortion procedures.
According to the attorney general’s lawsuit, San Antonio’s allocation of $100,000 to fund travel for Texans seeking drug-induced abortions in other states violates Texas law.
It also accuses the defendants—City of San Antonio officials—of “transparently” working to flout the law.
“The City of San Antonio is blatantly defying Texas law by using taxpayer dollars to fund abortion tourism,” said Paxton. “Beyond being an egregious misuse of public funds, it’s an attack on the pro-life values of our state.”
“I will not stand by while rogue cities use tax dollars to circumvent state law and take the innocent lives of unborn children,” he continued.
Paxton is demanding that the courts declare San Antonio’s actions unconstitutional and issue an injunction to block the city from further allocating public funds for out-of-state abortion travel.
In September 2024, the attorney general sued the city of Austin on similar grounds.
This comes as medical professionals in other states are continuing to provide abortion procedures to women who are unable to terminate their pregnancies in Texas.
For example, a New York-based doctor named Margaret Carpenter was blocked from prescribing abortion pills to Texans after sending a mother in Collin County abortion pills by mail.
Paxton sued Carpenter in December 2024 after the mother suffered severe medical conditions and the child was killed.
“In Texas, we will always protect innocent life and uphold the laws that protect mothers and unborn babies,” Paxton said at the time. “Radical out-of-state doctors will not be allowed to peddle dangerous and illegal drugs in Texas to kill unborn babies.”
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