The Fifteenth Court of Appeals this week unanimously granted a motion filed by the state to halt San Antonio city officials from allocating taxpayer money to fund out-of-state travel for abortion. The ruling is a significant one by a new court established by the legislature in 2023.

Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-TX) praised a Thursday decision by Texas’s 15th Court of Appeals that temporarily blocks San Antonio from funding out-of-state abortion travel with taxpayer dollars. The case concerns an ordinance the San Antonio City Council passed that allocated $100,

A Texas appeals court prevented the city from moving forward with its plan to allocate $100,000 for "downstream" reproductive health services — likely including abortion travel — until a lawsuit worked its way through the judicial process.