Texas abortion funds cautiously resume services following legal reprieve

Groups had stopped work funding out-of-state travel for abortions due to threats from Republican attorney general Ken Paxton

When the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade last June, Kamyon Conner sat at her desk and sobbed.

As executive director of the Texas Equal Access Fund - a nonprofit based in north Texas that helps patients pay for their abortions - Conner was forced to shut off the group's hotline for the first time in its nearly 20-year history. That meant cutting off a critical avenue for hundreds of largely low-income people of color to afford essential out-of-state care.