From: Coalition on Abortion Breast Cancer
mail@abortionbreastcancer.com

Activists wanting to help educate taxpayers, health officials and commissioners in Travis County, Texas about the abortion-breast cancer link can distribute a letter from the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer concerning the risks of abortion. The letter is addressed to the Board of Managers at Central Health and members of the Travis County Commissioners Court. The letter and contact information for officials are available at the end of this message.

A report from the American Statesman indicates that Central Health in Austin, Texas - formerly called the Travis County Healthcare District - will be voting on its new 2011 budget on Wednesday, September 15, 2010, which will determine whether taxpayers in Travis County will continue to be forced to fund elective abortions. [1] Central Health has been holding public hearings on its budget and its Board of Managers will decide whether to renew a $450,000, five-year contract with three agencies providing abortions.

Members of the Travis County Commissioners Court will vote on the budget on Tuesday, September 21, 2010.

Ken Lambrecht, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region, falsely represented taxpayer funding of elective abortions as something that "helps" poor women to pay for "safe, legal abortion." Doesn't his "concern" for the poor tug at your heart?

Lambrecht's argument that abortion is "safe" is much like the argument made by tobacco executives and their allies in science, medicine and politics during the last half of the 20th century, who adamantly maintained that cigarette smoking was safe, despite a large body of evidence to the contrary that started accumulating in 1928.

Abortion has never been proven to be safe. On the contrary, a large volume of research published during the last 53 years shows it is anything, but safe. Lambrecht and his anti-science colleagues are inflicting grave harm on the poor by performing abortions on desperate women who are uninformed about the risks of induced abortion. Abortion is a contraindicated procedure. It is what quacks do. Why do they hate women so much?

We live in a time of economic crisis. However, when voters are forced to pay for elective abortions, they will also be responsible for paying for the grave health consequences of abortion. The Texas Department of State Health Services publishes a booklet online entitled, "A Woman's Right to Know," which lists the following risks of the procedure: breast cancer, premature birth, emotional harm, infertility, etc. See: .

Medical history has repeatedly shown it is very difficult for doctors to admit to themselves that they have caused harm to their patients. Rather than make the admission, some medical professionals prefer to continue practices that have been proven harmful. For instance, after Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis demonstrated through his experiments during the 1840s that handwashing before delivering babies saves women's lives, his colleagues angrily revoked his privileges and ridiculed him. They continued to deliver babies without first washing their hands; and women continued to die at high rates after giving birth. This scenario didn't change until doctors accepted germ theory in the 1870s.

Urge the Board of Managers at Central Health and the commissioners at Travis County Commissioners Court to change their practice of using $450,000 in taxpayer funds to pay for elective abortions.

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer's letter is available here: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/download/TravisCounty.pdf

Send the Coalition's letter to the Board of Managers at Central Health (before its vote takes place on Wednesday, September 15, 2010. The contact page for the Board of Managers at Central Health is located at:
http://www.traviscountyhd.org/contact_us.html

Send the Coalition's letter to the Travis County Commissioners Court (before its vote takes place on Tuesday, September 21, 2010). Contact information for members of the court can be found here:
http://www.co.travis.tx.us/commissioners_court/default.asp



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