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.

[restornu]

Are you a he or a she?

[discostu]

not that it has the slightest bearing on the discussion but I'm a he.

[John Beresford Tipton]

"raspberry beret, the kind you find at a second-hand store"

Perhaps you have it mixed up with that sweet gal, "Second Hand Rose"?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Didja see the threads on the average impregnated-by-rape-or-incest 10-12 year old? Basically, the little harlots ask for it, and should have those babies to give away to some nice baby sales lot, er, "charitably run" adoption agency.

;)

[restornu]

Well do you what goes on when one get breast cancer?

Being a he I doubt it!

[Eternally-Optimistic]

No injury???
What about the baby... it is dead.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I like your tag line. Perhaps you want to see Pepe, my Little Mule.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Read the article, numbnuts. This is about women suing when they haven't had what they're complaining about. Its like you going out and buying a pack of smokes, suing Big Tobacco with no sign of lung cancer.

[John Beresford Tipton]

"Perhaps you want to see Pepe, my Little Mule."

That sounds like the line that got the plaintiff knocked up.

[discostu]

That has even less bearing on the discussion, as a matter of fact it's a deliberate attempt to use a logical fallacy to sidetrack the discussion. The discussion is whether or not there's any proof that abortion CAUSES breast cancer. One's gender and one's experience with breast cancer has no bearing on that and bringing it up is an attempt to poison the well and attack the other person. It's a simple matter of logical analysis of the presented data, so far the presented data show a strong COROLATION but no CAUSATION. If you've got new data that shows causation I'd like to see it, if all you're going to do is use cheap and lame tactics in a misguided attempt to perjure my statements in the eyes of other reader I'll kindly ask you to move on.

[discostu]

Only if we get to take Lupe's escape.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Look at those snappers!

[Saundra Duffy]

Hello! There's a bias by all those organizations you mentioned. They'd have to admit they've been wrong and putting women at risk. It's the culture of the beast. And besides, it isn't politically correct to discuss abortion in a negative light. Why is this so hard for you to understand?

[discostu]

That was my second choice when I decided to grab a tag from Romancing the Stone. Third choice was "I went to college" but I figured that might get me in trouble on a WOD thread.

[Saundra Duffy]

A lady I know died from breast cancer. No one knows except me and one other person that she had an abortion. She is not being counted in anybody's research study. How many other "dead women walking" are there?

[Saundra Duffy]

Thus, I plan to make sure to use it when referring to their statements so that it's in their face every time.

Don't you have anything better to do with your time?

[Gabz]

Future uses of this precedent include enviroweenies saying that, although they HAVEN'T developed cancer from automobile exhaust, there's circumstantial evidence that they MIGHT develop cancer, and thus we need to outlaw all but zero emissions vehicles.

The precedent has long been set on these "might develop something" suits with the various tobacco litigations.

Correlation does not equal causation and these types of lawsuits should not even be being brought forth to begin with.

If all of the potential risks of ANY elective surgical procedure are not disclosed to a patient, and the patient winds up with one of those previously undisclosed potential risks, yes a suit is probably warranted. I see no such thing here.

If there is a truly causative link between abortion and breast cancer it must be shouted from the mountain tops by everyone. Even if it is only a weak link, it still needs to be made known. Lawsuits about potential harm are NOT the way to go. all these type lawsuits do is fill the pockets of the liberal-left trial lawyers.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Told ya so :)

[CounterCounterCulture]

Bad week for the death industry. Good job.

[Grando Calrissian]

Maybe you can sue Microsoft.