The City Council debate hinged around the legality of using a portion of the fund to transport people seeking abortions out of Texas.
Michael Knuffke, a San Antonio Family Association member, holds up a sign in protest of the city's reproductive justice fund.A new fund aimed at improving reproductive health access received broad support from San Antonio City Council members on Wednesday, but three members said they were opposed to using any of the money to transport people out of state to obtain abortions.
Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. The city’s health department recommended splitting up the fund into three parts: addressing the “upstream,” or the root causes of limited access to reproductive health such as housing and food insecurity, addressing “midstream” needs such as sex education, and “downstream” needs including direct services like providing contraception, home pregnancy tests and transportation to prenatal appointments as well as abortion services.
The Buckle Bunnies Fund and other abortion support organizations Jane’s Due Process, Avow, Sueños Sin Fronteras and the Lilith Fund — organizations that may apply for funding — distributed a joint statement in support of the Reproductive Justice Fund during the council meeting. Councilman Marc Whyte speaks during Texas Alliance for Life press conference following a meeting at San Antonio City Council.Whyte was joined by nearly every Republican elected officeholder in the county, including Commissioner Grant Moody and state Reps. John Lujan and Mark Dorazio, who huddled afterward to talk strategy.
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