Texas Right to Life filed a “friend of the court” brief today to urge the Supreme Court of Texas to hear a case about whether the City of Austin may legally use taxpayer dollars to fund abortion-assistance organizations.
If considered by the court, this case has the potential to broadly affect not only the ability of local governments to indirectly fund the abortion industry, but also the force and effect of Texas’s pre-Roe v. Wade abortion prohibitions.
In Texas, using taxpayer money to fund abortion is ILLEGAL! But the liberal Austin City Council is diabolical. They’re trying to sneak around Texas law, allocating $150,000 to anti-Life organizations that pay for transportation, housing, and other logistics for a woman’s abortion appointment. Pro-Life Austin businessman Don Zimmerman filed a lawsuit against the city in 2019. He argues that Texas still has laws on the books preventing any public money from funding those who aid and abet abortions and that Roe v. Wade did not enjoin those laws from being enforced.
Further, he argues more broadly that the Supreme Court of the United States in Roe v. Wade did not “strike down” Texas’s original laws prohibiting abortion because the court can only prevent laws from being enforced. Only the legislature that enacted the law can constitutionally repeal statutes, and the Texas Legislature has never repealed the state’s pre-Roe policies protecting preborn children from the violence of abortion and punishing those who perpetuate that violence.
Texas Right to Life General Counsel Emily Cook said: “We filed this amicus brief in support of Mr. Zimmerman on behalf of all Pro-Life Texans who strongly believe their taxes should not be used to promote abortion in any way, because every abortion takes an innocent human life. For the sake of the life-saving impact this precedent could set for innumerable preborn Texans, the court must favorably consider this case.”
Texas’s Eighth Court of Appeals sided with the trial court in issuing a judgment in favor of the City of Austin. The Supreme Court of Texas must weigh in on this critical Pro-Life case in order to reverse the prior erroneous judgments and protect the lives of innocent preborn Texans.
The Supreme Court of Texas must hear this critical case. Pro-Lifers should NOT be forced to fund abortions through their tax dollars.
You have the chance today to stand up for Life and tell the justices you expect them to do the same. Your gift of $300, $150, $40, or more today can help defend Pro-Life citizens and stop your hard-earned money from paying for abortions.
If the City of Austin can get away with this, your hometown could, too.
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