The City Council set aside $400,000 in the budget to help pay for travel, including airfare and gas.
The City of Austin is being sued for a provision in the budget providing money to people seeking out-of-state abortions.
City Council last week approved $400,000 to fund travel — including airfare, gas, hotel stays and food — for people seeking the procedure, which is banned in Texas. Former City Council Member Don Zimmerman, who filed the lawsuit Tuesday, argued it is against state law to “spend taxpayer dollars on abortion-assistance activities."
“Any use of taxpayer money inside Texas to procure a drug-induced abortion violates , even if the abortion is being procured outside the state,” the lawsuit states. The suit states it is illegal to knowingly use taxpayer dollars to help people seeking these procedures. It also argues the city cannot enact rulesThe lawsuit names Mayor Kirk Watson and City Manager T.C. Broadnax as defendants, in addition to the city., he sued to stop an effort to help low-income women obtain abortions, but a Travis County district judge ruled against him."Access to the full range of reproductive health care should be a fundamental right,” she said Wednesday.
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