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Posted on 10/31/2010 1:14:16 PM PDT by NYer
CINCINNATI, Ohio, OCT. 29, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Everywhere I looked this month I saw a pink ribbon. It was on my dry cleaning bag, grocery bag, coffee cup, mail catalogs, receipts, billboards … it goes on and on. Don't get me wrong. I love the color pink, and breast cancer prevention and finding a cure is critical to women today. However, I also love the truth.
That is why October 2010 is a good time to take Breast Cancer Awareness Month to a whole new level with some facts which can lead to both the physical and spiritual health of women in America and across the world.
We live in the world of media messaging where the one with the most money and the loudest message wins the day. What is the "Race for the Cure"? Why are we not being told the truth about the real risks and prevention for breast cancer? According to the SEER data at the National Cancer Institute, there has been a 400% increase in noninvasive -- or "in situ" (in the same place) -- breast cancer in pre-menopausal women since 1975. How do abortion, hormone replacement therapy, and hormonal contraception factor into the equation?
For years, abortion, hormonal replacement therapy and hormonal contraception have been largely ignored by most of the medical community and the media in general as significant risk factors for breast cancer. However, studies have consistently concluded that breast cancer risk increases as a result of these three factors.
Researchers in Iran have published results of a new study showing that women who have had an abortion face a 193% increased risk of breast cancer. This has to do with the interruption of breast tissue development during pregnancy. It is important to note that this (and other studies like it) have nothing to do with a person's belief in abortion. It has everything to do with the scientifically undeniable development and growth of breast tissue within a woman's body. There are many other studies that have been published as well that confirm that abortion presents increased risk to women for breast cancer, and that confirm that carrying a baby to full term provides a natural protection to the mother if the pregnancy is not unnaturally interrupted.
For years, doctors have been prescribing hormone replacement therapy for women who experience hot flashes and periods of sweating in menopause. The widespread belief was that these hormones would not only reduce a woman's risk for heart disease but also keep her "youthful, sexy, and healthy." This week the New York Times reported that studies have now confirmed that taking these hormones not only increases breast cancer risk, but "also make it more likely that the cancer will be advanced and deadly" (New York Times, Oct. 19, 2010).
This revelation, finally being recognized by the mainstream medical community and media, makes our final topic on hormonal contraception downright frightening.
Obstetricians and gynecologists across the country freely encourage long-term use of hormonal contraception such as "the Pill," the intrauterine device (IUD) Mirena, NuvaRing, Yaz, Yasmin, and all forms of emergency contraception without giving adequate attention to the short- and long-term side effects. Pediatricians have also joined in on this by encouraging mothers to place their young daughters on "the Pill" to help with acne or to relieve monthly menstrual cramps. Recently, a college student shared with me that inside her dorm, cell phones go off in the early morning hours as a reminder to the girls to take their birth control pills. This was at a Catholic college.
The number of young women on "the Pill" is alarming. Have these girls been told that "the Pill" has been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen by the International Agency on Research for Cancer, a research arm of the World Health Organization? Are women in general being informed that any form of hormonal (estrogen-progestin combination) birth control (including "the Pill," the patch, Depo-Provera, Norplant, Ortho Vera Patch, or any others on the market) are actually increasing risk for breast, cervical, and liver cancer?
The sad reality is that any woman who takes a hormonal contraceptive for four years prior to her first full-term pregnancy increases her risk for breast cancer by 52%. It is worth noting that this same research arm of the World Health Organization also places "the Pill" in the same category with asbestos and cigarettes.
The difference is the dose
So, you may ask, what is the difference between the hormones that are given to women during menopause, which cause deadly breast cancer, and the hormones that are given to young women in the form of "the Pill"? The answer is shocking. The hormones in the drugs are the same. The only difference is in the dose that is given to the younger women and girls. It is necessary to give a much higher dose than that given in hormone replacement therapy because younger women have active, healthy ovaries. Does this give better context to the 400% increase in "in situ" breast cancer in pre-menopausal women since 1975?
In order to silence the public discussion of the harms of contraception we have often been told that we are pushing our "Catholic" views on women. This has effectively kept many health care providers and pro-life groups silent on this issue. Do you know what has nothing to do with being Catholic? Experiencing breast cancer in your 30s, having a stroke in college, or having an undetected and sudden blood clot that results in permanent health damage or death are life-threatening side effects that visit women of all faiths.
Women deserve to know the truth. They have been failed by physicians in not being warned of the physical damage that they are doing to their bodies, and they have been failed by their priests in not being warned of the spiritual damage that they are doing to their souls.
The New York Times article on Oct. 19 published information by "The Journal of the American Medical Association" that is a real breakthrough and victory for women's health. The exposure of this important medical information further reveals the outrage of Komen for the Cure giving $7.5 million back to Planned Parenthood in 2009. This was money from trustful donors who were unaware that they, indeed, gave to a cause working against the cure of breast cancer. Clearly, both abortion and hormonal contraception, a huge source of Planned Parenthood's income, are contributing risk factors for breast cancer.
October 2010 is the time to recognize the seamless pink ribbon that connects breast cancer with abortion, hormonal contraception and hormone replacement therapy. It is only then that we can get on with true prevention and, God willing, finish the race for the truth, which will then pave the path for the cure.
The Pink Mafia are WAY OVER EXPOSED. SGK is suffering t\one of the biggest backlashes in history.
But that's just what they -- volunteer disease pimps -- it's a very popular form of marketing for the "non-profits" -- leveraging the largely unarticulated need for people at large to seem themselves as useful, good, and contributing to something bigger than themselves. It might be called "vanity marketing."
There's probably 1 legitimate participant for every ten you see bedecked by pink ribbons. Maybe less.
Remember when people didn't advertise and capitalize on their weaknesses, sicknesses, and defects? I do.
I posted something akin to this on this subject the last time it came, and was naturally flamed as if I was the cause of breast cancer itself.
(nothing could be further from the truth. I have nothing but admiration for breasts and wish only for their well-being).
Seeing football players in pink turned me off.
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SUSAN G. KOMEN FOUNDATION isn’t mentioned in the article. I don’t support the organization but why was it used in the headline?
This is very like the AIDS industry, which plays on people’s sympathy for AIDS victims, but then uses the money—much of it taxpayer money—to help spread AIDS.
How do they spread AIDS? By lying about the efficacy of condoms. By working to make it illegal to let people know who has AIDS, so they can infect more partners. By funding sex education that encourages homosexual activity and multipartner sex.
From Wikipedia (not always accurate, but I see no reason for them to lie about this):
“Susan G. Komen for the Cure, formerly known as The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, often referred to as simply Komen, is an organization supporting breast cancer research.”
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They also spend money on embryonic stem cell research.
I boycott any product with their logo.
Miss the Baked Lay’s.
Yep - they are really helping by having KFC as a sponsor.
The abortion lobby is very powerful and very forceful in their expressions...and the truth is only valued when useful to their cause (see this thread: Planned Parenthood Declares War on Science). This same spirit fills the Susan G. Komen Foundation. That is probably why you see the difference.
Perhaps more alarming is the way some of these young ladies use the pill.
I kid you not, I've actually seen girls who only think you need to take the drug if you plan to have sex that day/night. They also give out their pills to friends who think they might need them that day/night.
The secretary I worked with in the (undisclosed) setting where this took place and I threatened to come to all the dances and scream, "Leave them alone, guys, they don't know how to take their pills."
DUH!
There are none so blind as those progressives that progress backwards while patting each other on the back claiming they are enlightened gods without need for morality or God...
We see children sacrificing their lives -committing suicide at the progressives homosexual sex altar and we see women sacrificing their breasts at the progressives free love and "choice" altar. YUP another normal day for the leftists and those they lie to -as they say "it will get better -trust us" Yes, just one bite from that apple Eve...
These self centered pink women are a sign of the times.
Amen. Yesterday at a soccer tournament, I walked past a boy's team wearing pink shirts. I heard one of the moms tell her son, "Your team just needs to be more aggressive!"
I just experienced that, and I had no desire at all to remain "youthful and sexy" at the risk of my health. The hot flashes were not debilitating, just annoying, and I just carried a folding fan with me, everywhere I went.
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