FIRST U.S. ABORTION-BREAST CANCER LAWSUIT SETTLED

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer ^ | October 21, 2003 | Karen Malec

[Saundra Duffy]

COALITION ON ABORTION/BREAST CANCER P.O. Box 152 Palos Heights, IL 60463 Toll Free 1-877-803-0102 www.AbortionBreastCancer.com response@abortionbreastcancer.com

Press Release Contact: Karen Malec For Immediate Release Date: October 21, 2003

FIRST U.S. ABORTION-BREAST CANCER LAWSUIT SETTLED

PHILADELPHIA: The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer announced today that the first U.S. abortion-breast cancer (ABC) lawsuit settled for an undisclosed amount on October 17, 2003. The case was filed in Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. The plaintiff was a 17-year-old Pennsylvania resident when a second-trimester abortion was performed in New Jersey without parental knowledge or consent. Although she hasn't developed breast cancer, she sued her abortion provider, Charles Benjamin, for neglecting to warn her about the physical and emotional risks of abortion.

Karen Malec, the coalition's president, declared, "This settlement will teach the medical establishment that it can no longer profit by keeping women in the dark about the breast cancer risk. This case also establishes that abortion providers can be sued for battery if the abortion provider performs no parental consent abortions on minors from neighboring states (with parental consent statutes), even if the state where the abortion is performed does not have a parental consent statute."

The plaintiff's attorney, Joseph P. Stanton, will hold a press conference on a later date. For further details, contact his office at: 405 Old York Road, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania; phone 215/886-6780.

The ABC link has been called "the elephant in medicine's parlor." Medical experts privately say abortion causes breast cancer, but the volatility of the issue prevents them from publicly acknowledging it.

According to a National Cancer Institute (NCI) commissioned study, teens who procure abortions before age 18, more than double their risk. [1] Girls and women have a predominance of immature, cancer-vulnerable Types 1 & 2 breast lobules, which aren't matured into cancer-resistant Types 3 & 4 lobules until a term pregnancy takes place. Abortion can increase the statistical odds of developing breast cancer in two ways: 1) It delays a first term pregnancy; and 2) It increases the number of cancer-vulnerable breast cells because estrogen overexposure during a normal pregnancy stimulates cell multiplication. Women don't receive protection from estrogen overexposure until third trimester hormones mature their breast tissue into milk-producing Types 3 & 4 lobules.

Scientists have proven themselves incapable of refuting the biological explanation for the ABC link. Thirteen out of 16 U.S. studies report risk elevations. The NCI provided at least partial funding for 10 studies.

Minnesota and Texas state legislators passed informed consent legislation earlier this year. Massachusetts is considering similar legislation. Five medical organizations say abortion is one of the causes of breast cancer. [2]

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women's organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.

References: 1. Daling et al. (1994) J Natl Cancer Inst 86:1584-92. 2. National Physicians Center for Family Resources, Catholic Medical Association, American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Polycarp Research Institute, Breast Cancer Prevention Institute.

[TheAngryClam]

And yet you're cheering on a LAWSUIT pushed by LAWYERS...

Someone needs to get off their high horse big time.

[discostu]

I'm not going to do YOUR research. If they accounted for all those factors then that proof should be readily available, produce it. If it's not on the web tell which medical journals to read it in.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

99% of the bad lawyers give the 1% of good lawyers a bad name.

Looks like you are headed in the former direction. Sorry to see that.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Yes, I guess we'd better raise taxes and bankrupt a few more companies in order to make big payoffs to all those people who are scared they might get asbestos-related lung aliments 'cause they once attended a school or worked in an office that had asbestos ceiling tiles. While we're at it, we'd better shut down the whole global economy, since a bunch of scientists claim that all significant human industry must stop or else "global warming" will kill us all. The fact that a lot more scientists say this is bunk doesn't bother the zealots a bit -- on global warming or the equally unproven "abortion-breast cancer link".

[Saundra Duffy]

The argument re: parental authority over minor children is a different thing entirely that would be a slam-dunk in a sane society.

Wanted to repeat this.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

My aunts, grandmother and GRANDFATHER, all had breast cancer.

Who do they sue? None had abortions, especially my grandfather.

[Saundra Duffy]

Appreciate your pro life activities. I don't much like lawsuits, either, but sometimes it's the only recourse.

[TheAngryClam]

Because I insist on the truth rather than grasping at straws like those who are busy pushing junk science, whether it be "proof" of creationism or "proof" of an abortion-breast cancer CORRELATION (not causation!)?

[GovernmentShrinker]

They can also get sued for scaring people out of having procedures performed by telling them about alleged risks for which there is no established scientific proof -- like this one.

[Saundra Duffy]

Abortion providers may find it wise to provide as much information as possible on the effects of an abortion to avoid the possibility of losing a case like this.

Yahoo! The more information the better. For example, women who have a family history of cancer would especially want to know about the ABC Link.

[GovernmentShrinker]

You might want to seek out a better-informed and less biased source for your information. The "science" behind this claim is laughable, and almost entirely attributable to a single researcher (though he claims to have performed meta-analyses of data from other researchers' studies). The global warming scaremongers are on LOT more solid ground than the abortion-breast-cancer scaremongers (and the former are flailing around in deep water).

[Saundra Duffy]

Pull your head out of your butt, please. (I'm sorry for saying that . . . sort of.)

[Saundra Duffy]

A better analogy would be you goto a doctor to get Viagra, and the doctor neglects to inform you that by taking JUST ONE DOSE the chances of getting testicular cancer in your lifetime effectively double, while knowing full well that it does.

Bingo! Now the guys will get this. Thanks!

[Saundra Duffy]

Thank you for all of your posts, pal. Planned Parenthood better get smart and start warning women. That's all we're asking in our lawsuit. We're not in it for any money. All we want is information for clients. Why is that so hard?

[GovernmentShrinker]

Are you going to respond to my argument that The National Cancer Institute, The National Breast Cancer Coalition, the American Cancer Society, and the World Health Organization have all ruled that no proven link exists?

They've got it all figured out that nothing any of these organizations says is believeable, since they're obviously all in league with the "baby-killers" (which is proven, of course, by the fact that they all deny that any legitimate science shows that abortion increases breast cancer risk).

Makes the head swirl, doesn't it?

[TheAngryClam]

Except that people don't know full well- the abortion-breast cancer CORRELATION is on astoundingly weak scientific ground.