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.

[goodnesswins]

Hey, ....the package tells you of the problems associated with smoking.....LOL....you've been forewarned.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

That's what caught my eye, too.

I know you two arent opposed to the action this lawsuit carried. It is how it was carried out, and by who. Now abortionists who have this suit thrown in their face when they are counseling a patient will be able to tell the little girl "Yes, but the plaintiff never had cancer, so...".

It would have been better if it had been brought by one of the people who had been through a trial or test by the NCI, one who had an abortion and cancer.

[kidd]

The more information the better.

Exactly.

It will be interesting to see how abortion providers react to this. IOW - abortion providers will now have to perform a kind of information-vs-profit analysis. If they tell the truth, they lose business. If they withhold the truth, they face a lawsuit.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Just wait 'til some tiny 12 year old whose parents were scared out of getting her an abortion by these nuts, dies from pregnancy/childbirth complications, or permanently loses her fertility due the trauma on her underdeveloped body from carrying a baby to term. Then we'll see the "ABC" crowd on the other side of some huge lawsuits.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

hormonal birth control

What type of tumor was it? Estrogen or hormonal?

[Domestic Church]

Pingaroo to you!

[GovernmentShrinker]

Don't hold your breath waiting for these "ABC" cheerleaders to grasp the difference between correlation and causation. Won't happen. You'll just turn blue.

[discostu]

Same problems back in the days of the innoculation threads. The difference is the ABC guys at least have a good cause (the ending of discretionary abortions) at their root, the innoculation guys were just luddites and freaks.

[John Beresford Tipton]

"I want to know who I can sue"

That rasberry jam sounds like the culprit,
if it's yummy better get it out of the house.
Glad to help, just send it to me at ...

[TheAngryClam]

They know, they just don't want to admit it. Thus, I plan to make sure to use it when referring to their statements so that it's in their face every time.

[nickcarraway]

I don't think they'll get smart, they are fat and lazy because they live of the government and their supporters in powerful institutions.

[TheAngryClam]

It was strawberry jam.

Money quote:

Tests on "simply 100 percent" strawberry jam revealed that the spread contained less than 30 percent actual strawberries and the blueberry version contained just 43 percent berries, the lawsuit said.

The premium jam also contains fruit syrup, lemon juice concentrate, fruit pectin, red grape juice concentrate and natural flavors, according to the J.M. Smucker Co. Web site.

[discostu]

Lame tactic. Attack the people instead of the the problem. Show proof of CAUSE not just correlation. That means something that shows HOW and WHY abortion leads to breast cancer and that other lifestyle factors aren't playing into it.

I'm not living off the government or a powerful institution. I work for a software company that happens to be run by morons doing everything in their power to put us out of business inspite of having the market leader in a tasty sector of telecommunications. I'd like to see abortion become a thing of the past, I don't think it's an activity healthy societies participate in. But I know logic and I know the studies you've linked to don't prove what you want them to prove what you want them to prove. The best they've done is shown a correlation which is completely meaningly in both legal and medical terms.

[freeangel]

Unfortunately, a teen cannot and refuses to see much beyond a weeks worth of future. The fact that she may get breast cancer in the future will not affect the decision of most teens on abortion. The parents of the teen MAY be in a better position to help with input into that decision but planned parenthood is doing its level best to make sure they never find out.

[Catspaw]

That rasberry jam sounds like the culprit, if it's yummy better get it out of the house. Glad to help, just send it to me at ...

Boy, you can tell who your friends are when you need to get out of a jam help.

[Notwithstanding]

Well, the chancellor troll has arrived to spew more death-camp propaganda.

[Poohbah]

I thought it was a raspberry beret, the kind you find at a second-hand store...