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Women Wrongly Warned Cancer, Abortion Tied
AP ^ | 11/9/4 | Laura Meckler

Posted on 11/09/2004 3:41:00 PM PST by Ahriman

In several states, women considering abortion are given government-issued brochures warning that the procedure could increase their chance of developing breast cancer, despite scientific findings to the contrary.

More than a year ago, a panel of scientists convened by the National Cancer Institute reviewed available data and concluded there is no link. A scientific review in the Lancet, a British medical journal, came to the same conclusion, questioning the methodology in studies that suggested a link.

The cancer information is distributed to women during mandatory waiting periods before abortions. In some cases, the information is on the states' Web sites.

"We're going to continue to educate the public about this," said Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cance, an anti-abortion group. She dismissed the National Cancer Institute's findings as politically motivated and maintained that the link has been scientifically proven.

The effort to write the issue into state law began in the mid-1990s, when a few studies suggested women who had abortions or miscarriages might be more likely to develop breast cancer. The warnings are now required in Texas and Mississippi, and health officials in Kansas and Louisiana voluntarily issue them.


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1 posted on 11/09/2004 3:41:00 PM PST by Ahriman
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To: Ahriman

What about depression and suicide?


2 posted on 11/09/2004 3:46:11 PM PST by Flashman_at_the_charge (A proud member of the self-preservation society)
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To: Ahriman

Headline by the same writer who gave us this one: Americans wrongly warned 9-11/Saddam tied.


3 posted on 11/09/2004 3:47:35 PM PST by madprof98
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Killing a living person growing inside a woman's body is bad for the woman? Who'lda thunk it!


4 posted on 11/09/2004 4:04:51 PM PST by RWRbestbyfar
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To: Ahriman

What about spiritual suicide? Hiring a serial killer to kill your alive child within isn't an affirming exercise, PP-hood, NARAL, and the NOW hags notwithstanding.


5 posted on 11/09/2004 4:08:44 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Ahriman

There's no link? Thank GOODNESS! Now I can have the abortion I've always wanted! /sarcasm


6 posted on 11/09/2004 4:10:38 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE! Get the UN-ignoring, unilateralist Frogs out of Ivory Coast!)
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To: Ahriman

Meanwhile, breast cancer rates keep rising and no one knows why.....


7 posted on 11/09/2004 4:21:03 PM PST by eccentric (aka baldwidow)
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To: Ahriman
It has always seemed to me that this link is intellectually reasonable and logical biologically. When pregnancy begins, the estrogen levels are very high. Estrogen's mission is to proliferate, multiply cells. grow. As the pregnancy progresses, progesterone is secreted, also in large amounts, but this is what neutralizes what could be the very potentially carcinogenic levels of estrogen. This is nature's and God's magic and miracle. When the process is artificially stopped and the estrogen levels haven't been neutralized, the possibility exists in my mind that you can definitely have that linkage.

It INFURIATES me that the feminazis and BABYKILLERS and babykilling advocates insist on keeping this information from the general public, and particularly from women in a position to have to make that choice. I hope they rot in hell with visions of dying babies screaming in their heads for eternity.

Check out this site. There's a wealth of factual information and enlightenment:

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

8 posted on 11/09/2004 4:22:15 PM PST by STARWISE (America has spoken- what part of Bush won AGAIN don't they get? Pray for the troops)
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To: STARWISE

bump


9 posted on 11/09/2004 4:37:25 PM PST by jonno (We are NOT a democracy - though we are democratic. We ARE a constitutional republic.)
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To: Ahriman

I saw a report at one time that showed the results of about 30 studies, about five-sixths of which proved a link. Can't find it now.


10 posted on 11/09/2004 4:39:36 PM PST by firebrand
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To: Ahriman

But yet they claim global warming is because of fossil fuel usage, despite scientific evidence otherwise.


11 posted on 11/09/2004 4:41:54 PM PST by vpintheak (Liberal = The antithesis of Freedom and Patriotism)
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To: Ahriman; Saundra Duffy

Bump.


12 posted on 11/09/2004 4:42:02 PM PST by cgk (The Left was beaten by Pres Bush twice & will never have another shot at him... who's dumb?)
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To: Ahriman; Coleus

They are spinning to they can sell more contraceptives, etc. perform more abortions.


13 posted on 11/09/2004 4:49:09 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Ahriman
Abortion IS a cancer.

"Whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." (Matthew 18:5-6)

Sooner or later these unfortunate people are going to have to come to hideous grips with what they have done.

14 posted on 11/09/2004 4:49:31 PM PST by Still German Shepherd (Call them what they are: liberals/democrats are socialists and communists.)
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To: Ahriman
Catechism of the Catholic Church and what it says about those who support abortion -- or have abortions
15 posted on 11/09/2004 4:49:56 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Ahriman
Gee, the totally phony tie between human activity and global warming is rock solid...

What's the problem?

16 posted on 11/09/2004 4:51:20 PM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
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To: Ahriman

It depends whom you believe. Numerous studies have shown that there is a link. These days scientists will lie at the drop of a hat if they have a political agenda or a good grant. And as a rule it's the politically correct side that lies most assiduously.


17 posted on 11/09/2004 5:00:14 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Flashman_at_the_charge

No more than post-partum depression...

It's really unreal that some groups are stooping so low as to give false information!

I hope they'll be sued!


18 posted on 11/09/2004 5:01:15 PM PST by Pitiricus
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To: MHGinTN

Well, setting the rhetoric aside, this is lying to the woman... The rest is your opinion, not shared by either the law or the majority of people!


19 posted on 11/09/2004 5:02:04 PM PST by Pitiricus
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To: Ahriman

I wonder if the women who had abortions also had the BRAC1 or BRAC2 gene mutation. That could possible explain why 30 yr olds are getting breast cancer.

My mother-in-law is an oncological nurse, and she said there are more women in their thirties being treated with Chemo than older women.

I shudder.


20 posted on 11/09/2004 5:03:12 PM PST by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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