Texas House Passes Ban on Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Travel

The Texas House of Representatives passed the Stop Tax-Funded Abortion Travel Act (Senate Bill 33) on Thursday with an 87-58 vote. The measure will block local governments from sending tax dollars to organizations that pay for out-of-state abortion costs, like flights and hotels. Now, the policy will head to the Senate for final approval and then be signed into law by the governor.

Texas Right to Life brought the Stop Tax-Funded Abortion Travel Act to lawmakers after the San Antonio and Austin city councils dedicated half a million dollars to abortion groups. Austin, specifically, handed $100,000 in taxpayer funds to an organization that sends teens to other states for free abortions—with or without their parents’ knowledge.

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Governments should not pay to kill their youngest citizens, and taxpayers should not be forced to participate in this violence.

On the same day, the Texas House also passed the Life of the Mother Act (Senate Bill 31). The measure will prevent delays in medical care and equip doctors and lawyers with accurate knowledge of the state’s Pro-Life laws. Despite claims from Democrats and the media, Pro-Life protections and emergency care work in harmony. If a mother faces pregnancy complications, there are several ways doctors can work to save both lives rather than abort the baby. However, if a procedure must be done that costs the life of the child, it can only be in cases where the mother’s condition would be life-threatening, according to Senate Bill 31 and previous standards.

Texas must value and protect mothers and babies together. Thursday’s victory with the Stop Tax-Funded Abortion Travel Act will save lives from out-of-state abortions, but thousands more children are still at risk. Every year, 19,000 abortion pills are ordered online and delivered to Texas in the mail, the abortion industry’s new method to skirt current laws. These drugs not only kill preborn babies but send one in 10 women who consume them to an emergency room. In the final days of Texas’ 2025 legislative session, lawmakers must pass the Woman and Child Protection Act (Senate Bill 2880) to stop the abortion industry’s underground network.

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