Dear Friends:
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: <http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/wrtk/default.shtm>.
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>
If you like our work here at the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
and wish to make a contribution, then click on the button below.
Sincerely,
Karen Malec
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
References:
1. Roser, Mary Anne, "At Central Health hearing, praise for board,
tears over abortion." American Statesman, September 1, 2010. Available
at:http://www.statesman.com/news/local/at-central-health-hearing-praise-for-board-tears-892867.html
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and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast
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