Texas Votes To Cut Funds From Clean Air Programs & Redirect The Money To Anti-Abortion Initiatives

On Thursday evening, the Texas State House of Representatives voted to take money from clean air initiatives and give it to the state’s Alternatives to Abortion (A2A) initiative, which, according to the Huffington Post, funds “faith-based, non-medical crisis pregnancy centers.” The House voted 131-16 to cut $20 million from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) air quality assessment and planning program and use the money to instead further fund the A2A’s controversial “crisis pregnancy centers.”