The lawsuit takes aim at towns that have declared themselves “sanctuary cities for the unborn.”
Edgar Walters
Edgar Walters worked at the Tribune from 2013 to 2020, most recently covering health and human services. Before that, he had a political reporting fellowship with the Berliner Zeitung, a daily newspaper in Berlin. He is a graduate of the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked as an editor for The Daily Texan. When not in the newsroom or at the Capitol, he could be found on the volleyball court, standing 6 feet, 7 inches tall.
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Health care
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State Government
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Health care
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Health care
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Guides
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Broken Border
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Health care
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State Government
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