FIRST U.S. ABORTION-BREAST CANCER LAWSUIT SETTLED
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How Politics Trumped Science and Informed Consent (Abortion-Breast Cancer Link)
Carcinogens and the Abortion-Breast Cancer Link (Hint: Abortion Does Cause Breast Cancer)
Abortion Causes Breast Cancer (ABC Link) - Recent NCI Workshop a Sham!!!
Breast cancer and abortion: the facts
Freeper Gets Bill From Planned Parenthood for $77,000!!!
REVEALING OF ABORTION-BREAST CANCER LINK IS AIM OF SUIT AGAINST PLANNED PARENTHOOD [Not News to FReepers:] First Case Linking Abortion-Breast Cancer Settled
WOMEN who have had an ABORTION TWICE as likely to BREAST CANCER
First ever Abortion-Breast Cancer Settlement [ABORTION causes BREAST CANCER]
British Scientists: Abortion Doubles Breast Cancer Risk
Abortion/breast cancer link can't be denied ^
Thanks for posting the links.
I researched this before I did the race for the cure this year in KCMO. I ended up doing the walk because of two dear friends who are both strong prolife cancer survivors. All money is fungible.
Thanks for this information... I have previously given to this organization (Komen Foundation), and this changes my mind.
bookmarking, info on connection between abortions and breast cancer.
Same old ABC crap.
Any link between abortion and breast cancer is unclear at best. Prolife people do the cause a disservice by continuing this fright tactic.
Another reason breast cancer is more prevalent among the Baby Boom generation is the use of artificial hormones for most of many women's lives. Women went on The Pill in their teen years, and from there moved to Hormone Replacement Therapy in menopause. Some also took fertility drugs to become pregnant after being on The Pill for many, many years. Some "experts" have been urging women to take testoserone supplements to boost their libido as well. No other generation has been on so many artificial hormones for so many years as this one.
Advocates for women’s health charge that abortion politics, not science, is behind a conference this week at the National Cancer Institute that will consider whether women who terminate a pregnancy also face higher risks of breast cancer. Critics say the conference is the latest case of the Bush administration’s skewing the nation’s medical research agenda to please its conservative allies.Praying for a connection between abortion and breast cancer is just sick.
Some scientists theorize that breast cells, which multiply during pregnancy, might become vulnerable to cancer if the hormones associated with late pregnancy do not arrive — claims that have been used by anti-abortion groups in seeking legislation to warn women seeking abortions of these "risks." Many experts say that fear was assuaged by a major Danish study, considered highly reliable because of the number of women covered — 1.5 million — and it’s basis on medical records rather than women’s personal recollection, that found no links between abortion and breast cancer.
Partly because of the study, the American Cancer Society says it sees no link between abortion and breast cancer, warning that "the public is not well-served by false alarms."
States dispute abortion studies
Brochures warn of refuted cancer link.
Published Friday, November 12, 2004
WASHINGTON (AP) - 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 Cancer, 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.
In Mississippi, women who want abortions must sign a form indicating they’ve been told there is a "medical risk" of breast cancer. In other states, brochures say there is a link or that evidence is mixed.
Minnesota law requires the health department to include this information on its Web site, but the department backed down after an outcry from the state’s medical community. Montana law also mandated the warning, but the state Supreme Court struck it down.
The brochures still in circulation tell women the issue "needs further study."
"They can do further research on their own and determine which of those studies they should put most attention on," said Sharon Watson, spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. "We’re just trying to provide all the information it’s possible to provide."
In Louisiana there will be changes, said Bob Johannessen, spokesman for the state’s Department of Health and Hospitals. He said the department’s new director did not know the state pamphlet included such information until contacted this week by The Associated Press.
"If there is scientific evidence, and it certainly appears there now is, we would certainly make the necessary changes in that brochure," Johannessen said Tuesday.
The brochure, he said, is a reflection of the "very, very strong pro-family, pro-life leaning" of Louisiana.
"Nonetheless, it’s incumbent on us as the health agency to make sure any information is factually correct," he said. "We don’t want to be misleading women who are making this important choice."
A Democrat, Kathleen Blanco, was elected Louisiana governor last year, replacing a Republican.
The issue continues to be debated in state legislatures, with bills considered this year in Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia.
On the federal level, several members of Congress complained last year after the NCI Web site included material suggesting a link between breast cancer and abortion or miscarriage. An expert panel that was asked to review the data reported in March 2003 that "well established" evidence shows no link.
Among the studies cited by the NCI expert panel was Danish research that used computerized medical records to compare women who had undergone abortions with that country’s cancer registry and found no higher cancer rate.
"Having an abortion or miscarriage does not increase a woman’s subsequent risk of developing breast cancer," the NCI site now says.
Those findings were affirmed this year by an article in the Lancet, which reviewed 53 studies. Lancet found that studies that purported a link had flawed methodologies.
Still, anti-abortion activists are unconvinced.
Joel Brind, a biochemist at Baruch College in New York who advises the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, noted that a woman’s chances of getting breast cancer go down if she gives birth at a relatively young age. He reasons that those who opt for abortion are giving up a chance of reducing their breast cancer risk.
Therefore, he says, abortion increases the risk of cancer.
He dismisses the findings of the National Cancer Institute, calling it a "political exercise, a charade if you will."
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Great post - please forward this to all of your friends!
Dead women walking.
Thanks for posting this. People at my work are sending emails out to give to this organization and sponsor them.
Thanks for the thread.