The board of managers of the The Travis County Healthcare District (TCHD) will have a special meeting on Thursday, Dec. 10. The board will vote on proposed contracts with three local abortion providers to use $450,000 in property taxes to pay for approximately 1,000 abortions a year. The abortions would be performed on demand on healthy women with healthy unborn babies. Click here for the Board Packet.

Pro-life residents of Travis County are urged to attend to show opposition to the abortion funding!

The meeting will be in the Travis County Commissioners Courtroom in the Granger Building, 314 W. 11th St., Austin. Here is a map. You are encouraged to arrive as early as 4 p.m. Sign-up begins at 5 p.m. The meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. There will be a person from Texas Alliance for Life there to help you.

If you cannot attend, you can still watch it live on Travis County Television, local cable station 17, and streamed online.

Spread the word and help promote the petition against the property tax-funded abortions:

• Forward this email to church and personal lists.
• Sign the petition: https://texasallianceforlife.org/TravisCountyPetition.aspx

• The Travis County Healthcard District (TCHD) is a taxing authority created by voters in 2004 to fund health care for low-income residents. The TCHD is governed by a board of managers, which must approve the abortion contracts with a separate vote. The board has nine members -- four appointed by the Travis County Commissioners, four appointed by the Austin City Council, and one jointly appointed. Each serves a four-year term. (Click on each for more information):
  
  
  Thomas B Coopwood, M.D., Chairperson
  Rosie Mendoza, C.P.A., Vice-Chairperson
  Frank Rodriguez, Treasurer
  Bobbie Barker, Secretary
  Clarke Heidrick, J.D.
  Donald Patrick, M.D., J.D.
  Brenda Coleman-Beattie
  Anthony Haley
  Katrina Daniel
  
  
• The City of Austin has funded elective abortions since 1978. In 2004, the Travis County Healthcare District was created by voters to use county property taxes to pay for health care at local hospitals and clinics for low-income residents. The TCHD took over the City's abortion contracts and renewed them at least three times.
• In August 2009, the TCHD approved its 2010 annual budget, which includes a $450,000 line item for "Women's Services" (abortions). The Travis County Commissioners approved the TCHD budget at their Sept. 22 meeting, as required by state law, including the abortion funding.
• The three abortion providers in the proposed contracts are Planned Parenthood at 201 E. Ben White Blvd., Whole Women's Health at 8401 N. IH 35, and Austin Women's Health Center at 1902 S. IH 35.
• To see how much in property taxes you are paying to the Travis County Healthcare District, visit the Travis Central Appraisal District at www.traviscad.org.