Group that fights breast cancer has troubling ties to Planned Parenthood

ABORTION PRESENT: Group that fights breast cancer maintains troubling ties to Planned Parenthood | Alisa Harris

Eve Sanchez Silver had her first abortion at age 16 and her second at age 21. In 1998 she started fighting her first of two bouts with breast cancer, undergoing a lumpectomy, mastectomy, and breast reconstruction. Silver has come to believe that her abortions increased her breast cancer risk, so when she discovered she was active in an organization—Susan G. Komen for the Cure—that gives grants to Planned Parenthood, she thought it was "really horrific."

Silver, director of Cinta Latina Research, helped found a minority advisory council for Komen, served on a review board, and spoke on its behalf until she resigned in 2004. "They were supposed to be a life-affirming organization and this other organization was killing people," Silver said. "I resigned because I felt that they were being duplicitous and that they were not supporting the very women they claimed they were supporting." Other pro-life activists—Karen Malec with the Coalition for Abortion/Breast Cancer, and Leslie Hanks, vice president of Colorado Right to Life, among others—have drawn attention to the grants for years. Komen counters that the money goes to breast cancer screening, not abortions, and says that newer research disproves any abortion-breast cancer link.

Local Komen affiliates, not the national organization, give local Planned Parenthoods grants marked "breast cancer screening, education and treatment." In 2008, 22 Komen affiliates gave grants to Planned Parenthood organizations or programs connected with Planned Parenthood. The dollar amount for 2008 is not yet available, but in the 2006-2007 fiscal year, Komen gave Planned Parenthood approximately $100,000 in grants.

SUSAN G. KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION TO WOMEN: DON’T CONFUSE US
WITH THE FACTS

DENVER, Colorado, October 3, 2007
Contact: Leslie Hanks 720-394-8946, Lolita Hanks, RN, BSN, FNP 720-218-5050

Colorado Right to Life is challenging the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to stop touting breast cancer awareness, while keeping women in the dark about the real causes of breast cancer. The latest study reporting an abortion-breast cancer link published just yesterday in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons is entitled, “The Breast Cancer Epidemic.” Among seven identified risk factors, abortion was found to be the “best predictor of breast cancer,” with fertility listed as another useful predictor. (Carroll, P. The breast cancer epidemic: modeling and forecasts based on abortion and other risk factors.” J Am Phys Surg Vol. 12, No. 3 (Fall 2007) 72-78. download the study at:
http://www.jpands.org/vol12no3/carroll.pdf).

This study by Patrick Carroll of PAPRI in London showed that countries with higher abortion rates, such as England & Wales, expect a substantial increase in breast cancer incidence. Where abortion rates are low (i.e., Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic) a smaller increase is expected. In countries that report a decline in abortion, (i.e., Denmark and Finland) a decline in breast cancer is anticipated.

During a meeting last October with Komen officials in Denver, Komen media consultant, DanaBrandorff, told Colorado Right to Life leaders and former national Komen advisory board member, Eve Sanchez Silver that they weren’t interested in telling women the truth about the well documented abortion - breast cancer link.

Ms. Silver was appalled at the stunning lack of information the Komen representatives had about basic breast physiology. When challenged about their refusal to stop
giving funds to America’s largest abortion provider and to inform women that abortion of a first
pregnancy greatly increases exposure to future risk of breast cancer, the Komen officials made
this ridiculous assertion:

“We aren’t so much about the prevention, we are all about the cure,”
noted Brandorff.

Raising the hopes of desperate women and their families while refusing to acknowledge the abc link,(www.abortionbreastcancer.com) is
dishonest. Beyond that irresponsible approach to treating women as if they can’t handle the truth, the whole Race for the Cure premise is steeped in fraud.

“Even the tobacco industry wouldn’t have had the nerve to try to
defraud smokers about the risk of using their products with the same audacity,” said CRTL V.P., Leslie Hanks.

“Komen perpetuates breast cancer by giving funds to Planned
Parenthood. They claim the funds are for breast screening but we know that breast screening is down 15% at Planned Parenthood and abortions are
up 23%.”

“Colorado women deserve the truth that abortion of a first pregnancy is linked with a doubling of the risk of future breast cancer. Raising millions to cure a disease that is largely avoidable is despicable,” said Hanks.

“They’re not known for their honesty,” Hanks said, and money is fungible—meaning that it can be shifted from one place to another.”

Example follows!!!

“Komen says newer evidence contradicts this. In 2003, 100 experts from the National Cancer Institute concluded there was no link between breast cancer and either miscarriages or induced abortions. Harvard University and Oxford University have found similar results in the past two years.”

To dispute this outrageous claim, go to:

www.abortionbreastcancer.com

ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES

“An Open Letter to World Magazine”
By Karen Malec, president, Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

Re: “Life or death? ABORTION PRESENT: Group that fights breast cancer maintains troubling ties to Planned Parenthood,” By Alisa Harris, January 17, 2008. Available at: http://www.worldmag.com/articles/article.cfm?eid=A7F4B067-EC95-B315-9BF5442343E44C33

Dear editor:

A new article in World Magazine discussed the disturbing financial relationship between the breast cancer group, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and an organization that is the primary cause of the breast cancer epidemic in the U.S. - Planned Parenthood.

The author, Alisa Harris, correctly reported that basic medical textbooks acknowledge that full term pregnancies offer women a considerable reduction in breast cancer risk. Logically, that means that the woman who chooses not to have a baby (i.e. by having an abortion) has a higher breast cancer risk than does the one who has a baby. The loss of the protective effect of a full term pregnancy is the first of three ways that abortion is linked with increased breast cancer risk (known as the “ABC link”).

Harris’ story, however, included inaccuracies and omitted important facts. Eight medical organizations acknowledge that abortion further raises a woman’s risk (independently of the loss of the protective effect of childbearing) by leaving her breasts with more places for cancer to start. [1]

I am troubled that Harris left her readers in doubt about the existence of the independent link. She said Komen’s officials dispute the independent link because:

“In 2003, 100 experts from the National Cancer Institute concluded there was no link between breast cancer and either miscarriages or induced abortions. Harvard University and Oxford University have found similar results in the past two years.”

If Harris would read the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) workshop conclusions, she would find that the federal agency acknowledged the protective effect of a full term pregnancy, but then blatantly contradicted itself by denying an ABC link.

More at: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/news/090107/index.htm

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