Castillo said the city now should work to adequately fund Metro Health and ask abortion-access nonprofits what help they need. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX AbortionRights AbortionIsHealthcare Texas abortionaccess
District 5 Councilwoman Teri Castillo speaks at a press conference announcing the proposed council resolution supporting abortion access.
At its heart, the resolution — passed over strenuous objection from anti-abortion groups — guides local officials not to use city funds to collect and share information on abortion services to agencies that would use them in criminal investigations. A lot of Tuesday's debate among council centered around whether the resolution had teeth and was anything more than symbolic. Talk about why, despite those criticisms, you felt urgency to get it passed.
When we look at Section Three of the resolution, you see that it's a policy recommendation that the city council ... that we're saying that we're not going to collect, store, catalog or report any abortion, miscarriage or other reproductive healthcare acts strictly for the purpose of pursuing a criminal investigation. And we are also recognizing that we are not operating under the same charter as Austin.
In your comments at Tuesday's meeting, you suggested this resolution could be just the beginning and that you'd like to see additional resolutions or ordinances protecting abortion access. What else would you like to see?
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