City of Austin ends its out-of-state abortion fund

The City of Austin, Texas, has officially ended its program to subsidize out-of-state abortions. On September 1, 2025, the City of Austin reluctantly suspended the Reproductive Healthcare Logistics Fund, which was used to cover costs related to out-of-state abortions procured by Texas women.

Key Takeaways:

The City of Austin, Texas, ended its out-of-state abortion fund last week.
The fund, the Reproductive Healthcare Logistics Fund, was used to reimburse Texas women who traveled out of state for abortions. It was seen as a “workaround” of Texas’s law protecting most preborn children from abortion.

The Details:

The suspension of the abortion fund is in response to a new Texas bill, Senate Bill 33, which was signed into law on Aug. 20, 2025, and prohibits the use of public funds to provide “logistical support” for out-of-state abortions.

Logistical support includes planning expenses, travel expenses, and missed wages. It also allows the attorney general and Texas residents to take civil action if they suspect a government entity violates the law.

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Last year, the City of Austin engaged two groups, Jane's Due Process and Fund Texas Choice, to facilitate out-of-state abortions, granting them $100,000. Since then, the logistics fund has been used to reimburse expenses for at least 29 abortions at a cost of $66,000. The money, which was distributed through a reimbursement model, was part of the city's approved Fiscal Year 2024-2025 budget, which allocated a total of $400,000 to support its Reproductive Justice Fund.

According to KVUE, Austin is now looking for other ways to spend that money. There is no information available regarding how much the City of Austin has allocated to nonprofits that assist women who choose life for their children.

The Bottom Line:

Setting aside funds to subsidize out-of-state abortions was seen as a “workaround” to Texas’s law protecting most preborn children from abortion.

During the discussion about whether to pass the new law prohibiting abortion funding, Texas State Senator Donna Campbell stated that pro-abortion funds are one way cities are attempting to “support abortion while skirting the law."

Texas Representative Candy Noble said her goal with the bill was to “have our laws followed when we pass them and not for a city to just find another loophole."

In addition to Austin, several other Texas cities had or were in the process of creating these logistic funds. Closing this loophole in state law makes it more difficult for those cities to undermine Texas’s strong protections for women and their preborn children.

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