City council members in this Texas city voted to allocate $150,000 to make abortion care more accessible to low-income women. Experts say this makes it the first-ever U.S. city to publicly fund logistical support for abortion care.
"Every day the anti-abortion elements in Texas, in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, wake up and think, 'How can we restrict access to abortion today.' That makes it our job, every day, to work to expand access to abortion and health care and other basic services related to abortion," Austin City Council member Greg Casar, a co-sponsor of the budget amendment, told NBC News.
Under the provisions of the budget amendment, the $150,000 will be given to Austin’s Public Health Department, which will then make it available, via a competitive bidding process, for groups that are already providing so-called “logistical” support for poor women who need abortion care. Advocates of the funding told NBC News it would not violate any of Texas’ restrictive abortion laws. Rather, they explained, the bill would merely help low-income women who need abortion care navigate a complicated landscape.
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