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Travis County to Approve $450,000
for Tax-Funded Abortions

9/3/10 -- Travis County taxpayers are urged to contact Central Health (formerly the Travis County Healthcare District) to oppose property tax-funded abortions.

The Central Health board is considering approving an annual budget that includes a whopping $450,000 for elective abortions, same as the previous budget. The abortions -- as many as 1,000 during the next 12 months -- will be performed on demand on healthy women with healthy unborn babies. No medical reason or referral is required.

The Central Health board will consider the budget -- including the abortion funding -- at its meeting on Wednesday, September 15. After that, the five members of the Travis County Commissioners Court will vote on approving the budget on Tuesday, September 21.

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Make Your Reservations Today to Hear Abby Johnson
at the 2010 Annual Benefit Dinner

9/3/10 -- Make your reservations today for TAL's 2010 Annual Benefit Dinner featuring Abby Johnson, the former director of a Planned Parenthood abortion facility who now tours the country as an advocate for the unborn.

Join us at the Hilton Austin on Tuesday, October 19, to hear Johnson's testimony of how a sonogram image and the witness of pro-lifers helped to transform her heart, and to listen to her unique perspective on current pro-life initiatives in Texas.

Johnson, the highest-ranking Planned Parenthood official to join the pro-life side, has been featured on a number of national outlets including The O'Reilly Factor, The Huckabee Report, and Focus on the Family Daily Broadcast.

Make your reservations today!

Get Out the Pro-Life Vote in November!

7/26/10 -- Success in the elections this fall depends on our support for all of our pro-life candidates, from Gov. Perry down to the state house races.

The stakes are so high that abortion advocates -- Planned Parenthood, Texas Abortion Rights Action League, and Annie's List -- are already hard at work. They know well that winning elections requires getting money and votes for their candidates.

We need to do the same. The lives of thousands of innocent unborn babies depend on it.

How can you help get out the pro-life vote? It's easy!

Follow these three steps...

Civic Action Conference Trains Church-Goers
to Promote Pro-Life Public Policy

7/23/10 -- On Saturday, July 17, nearly 100 grassroots citizens gathered in Coppell, Texas, for a civic action conference aimed at clarifying the dos and don'ts for churches, public policy, and political action.

The conference, cosponsored by Texas Alliance for Life and the Catholic Pro-Life Committee of North Texas, was entitled "Render Unto Caesar: Defending Life in the Public Square" and was held at St. Ann Catholic Church.

Conference attendees learned . . .

• What actions are and are not permitted for churches.
• How bishops and other church leaders have been involved in public policy issues, and what their limits are.
• How the pro-life movement has been successful in changing Texas public policy and the key issues for the upcoming 2011 state legislative session.
• The importance of testifying in committees.

Meet TAL's Summer Interns

7/23/10 -- Every summer, the TAL office welcomes student interns who assist with special projects and legislative research. This year, we welcome four students who are helping with background research on the Sonogram Bill and other key issues for the upcoming 2011 Texas legislative session.

Meet our interns...

Oppose Elena Kagan's Nomination to Supreme Court

6/30/10 -- TAL is asking pro-life citizens to contact and urge Texas' two U.S. Senators - Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn - to oppose Elena Kagan's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The senators will likely have an opportunity to vote later this summer, but they may be making up their minds right now.

We believe that, if appointed, Kagan will be an activist judge who will vote to uphold Roe v. Wade and to strike down reasonable limits on abortion if given the opportunity.

Find sample messages and contact info here...

Court Upholds Texas' Personhood Law

6/30/10 -- In another victory for Texas' "personhood law," the Prenatal Protection Act, the state's highest criminal court unanimously upheld the conviction of a San Antonio man for murdering a pregnant girl and her "thirteen-week-old unborn child."

The groundbreaking Prenatal Protection Act recognized, for the first time in the history of Texas, the personhood of "an unborn child at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth" and made it possible to prosecute for violent crimes of assault and murder against unborn persons.

In its opinion, delivered on June 16, the nine-member Texas Court of Criminal Appeals relied heavily on an amicus curiae (friend-of-the-court) brief submitted by Texas Alliance for Life (TAL). TAL's brief defended the constitutionality of the Prenatal Protection Act, which was passed by the legislature and signed by Gov. Rick Perry in 2003.

"Once again the legal personhood of the unborn child has been upheld in Texas so that our legislature can protect mothers and unborn babies from violent crimes," says Joe Pojman, Ph.D., TAL's executive director. "Although the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade opinion forbids Texas from protecting unborn children from abortion, we believe the Prenatal Protection Act creates a foothold for someday overturning Roe."

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Abby Johnson Encourages Walkers at Austin Walk 2010

6/30/10 -- Former Bryan Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson encouraged walkers at the Austin Walk 2010 to keep up the good work, saying pro-life efforts are making a difference.

Johnson, who is now a pro-life advocate and has gained national attention for her conversion, will be the keynote speaker at TAL's Annual Benefit Dinner on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, at the Hilton Austin.

The Austin Walk brought the Walk 2010 season to a close at The Quarries in Austin on Saturday, June 19. It was preceded by Walks in Georgetown (May 22) and Seguin (June 5). See photos from each of the Walk locations.

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Watch Videos from TAL's Life & Liberty Dinner

6/17/10 -- Watch inspiring messages from Dr. Richard Land, Gov. Rick Perry, and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst delivered at TAL's Life & Liberty Dinner.

The Life & Liberty Dinner was held June 10 at the Hyatt Regency Dallas from 8 to 10 p.m. The program also included Railroad Commissioner Victor Carrillo, State Sen. Dan Patrick (R-Houston), and State Rep. Phil King (R-Weatherford).

Find videos, audio, and photos from the Dinner...

Planned Parenthood Endorses Bill White,
TAL Endorses Perry for Texas Governor

5/27/10 -- Gubernatorial candidate Bill White was endorsed by Planned Parenthood in the March primary elections. Planned Parenthood runs the largest chain of abortion facilities in Texas, including their recently opened 78,000-square-foot, six-story "megafacility" in Houston.

"Voters need to know that Bill White would bring Planned Parenthood with him into the Texas Capitol if he were elected governor in November," said Joe Pojman, Ph.D., executive director of Texas Alliance for Life.

Gov. Rick Perry, who has been endorsed by the Texas Alliance for Life PAC, has passionately supported laws protecting unborn babies and their mothers. Perry supported the Woman's Right to Know Act (2003), the Prenatal Protection Act (2003), the parental consent law (2005), and funding for alternatives to abortions (2005, 2007, 2009).

In addition, Gov. Perry has also strongly endorsed public funding for adult stem cell research and has opposed embryonic stem cell research.

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