Texas Abortion Opponents Seek to Enforce $10,000 Fine (1)

A group of Texas citizens supportive of the state’s near total abortion ban is asking a federal judge for a pretrial win against nonprofits who hope to fund travel for Texans seeking an abortion outside the state.

The five citizens in a filing Friday said they are entitled to summary judgment because Texas law under four separate statutes “penalizes individuals and organizations that help women leave the state to obtain abortions elsewhere.”

Nine Texas abortion funds and a doctor sued the citizens along with prosecutors out of fear they’d be exposed to civil or criminal liability for assisting out-of-state abortions ...