State’s attorney general sues city over its ‘abortion fund’

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced last week that he is suing the City of Austin after the city allocated $400,000 in an abortion travel fund to help its residents kill their preborn children out of state. Texas law currently protects nearly all preborn children from abortion.

The city’s recently approved budget included the money in a Reproductive Health Grant, which would “support Austinites traveling to access abortion . . . including support for airfare, gas reimbursements...