Posted on 03/28/2007 4:45:37 PM PDT by wagglebee
John Pisciotta's encouragement comes at a time when Susan B. Komen Foundation groups are preparing for annual breast cancer runs across the country.
The head of Pro-Life Waco points to significant documentation over the last few years showing that local Komen affiliates across the country have given money to the pro-abortion group.
"We’re trying to raise awareness on the link between abortion and breast cancer, and point out that it is totally inappropriate for the Susan G. Komen Foundation to be making grants to the country's number-one abortion-provider," he told Agape Press.
"Nationwide, Planned Parenthood is the industry leader in abortion," he added. "Here in Waco, Planned Parenthood since 1994 has aborted over 12,000 young babies — and left their mothers susceptible to many problems, including increased risk of breast cancer."
Eve Sanchez Silver, a former Komen medical research analyst and Hispanic outreach director, resigned from the anti-cancer group after learning that their affiliates had made significant contributions to Planned Parenthood.
She quit the group in September 2004 after the organization told her it would not stop funding Planned Parenthood.
"The Foundation has done so much for so many women through its programs and research grants," Sanchez Silver told LifeNews.com at the time. "But this revelation about Planned Parenthood and [Komen], indicates a well thought out funding strategy."
According to former Komen public relations director Kristin Kelly, Komen affiliates awarded $38.4 million in grants to support community outreach programs in 2003. That figure includes 21 grants to their local Planned Parenthood chapters totaling more than $475,000.
The donations have continued and the Aspen, Colorado affiliate gave Planned Parenthood a $12,887 grant last December.
She met with Komen officials in Denver in October and talked with LifeNews.com about the meeting.
"SGK officials did not appear to have knowledge of simple breast facts," Silver said.
Silver explained that the breast is an organ that is not mature at birth and SGK officials appeared to be surprised to learn that the breast does not become fully mature until after 32 weeks of pregnancy.
As a result of that state of development, interruption of pregnancy via an abortion before 32 weeks leaves breast cells exposed to estrogen, which is highly carcinogenic.
The two-time breast cancer survivor indicated the Komen representatives also appeared to be "more concerned about assisting women after they had contracted breast cancer, than informing them to avoid breast cancer risk by avoiding abortions and having [an] early, full term pregnancy."
"This is an appalling lack of concern for the women the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation is supposed to be helping," Silver added.
During the meeting, Dr. Joel Brind, a professor at New York's Baruch College, said Komen's funding Planned Parenthood made no sense because abortions are one of the biggest causes of breast cancer.
He pointed out that breast cancer cases have risen 40 percent since abortion was made virtually unlimited in the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade.
In 1996, Brind and other researchers conducted analysis of all the major studies done in the field to that time. They concluded that women who had an abortion before their first term child had a 50% increased risk of developing breast cancer while women who had an abortion after their first child sustained a 30% increased risk.
Sanchez Silver is now the director of Cinta Latina Research, an organization that conducts research into breast cancer issues and their effects on minorities.
Related web sites:
Cinta Latina Research - http://www.cintalatina.org
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation - http://www.komen.org
Eve Sanchez Silver - http://stopabortionbreastcancer.org
National Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer - http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com
Givign money to "abortion providers" wouldn't, but PP does a lot of things besides abortion, including providing breast exam services and includes breast self-exam in many of its educational programs. http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/pp-services-5552.htm Personally, I wouldn't give a penny to PP because they show far more interest in promoting socialism than in promoting individual reproductive freedom and reproductive health for women. But ranting about how a breast cancer charity shouldn't give money to PP because PP somehow promotes breast cancer is just irrational nonsense, since PP does not do anything that promotes breast cancer and does do some things which promote early detection and thus better cure rates for breast cancer. It's also likely that SKF's donations to PP are earmarked for breast cancer-related programs; they are certainly dependent on the fact that PP has longstanding programs relating to breast cancer. To a woman whose early breast cancer is detected during a PP-provided breast exam, or during a self-exam she performed after being taught how to do so by PP, I'm sure that SKF's donations to PP make perfect sense.
Thanks for the link. The naysayers (who do, after all, have a lot to lose by any inadvertent expressions of candor) fight open discussion of this topic with the same self-righteous bluster that acolytes of man-made global warming do.
Let's examine the "abortion sacrament" from its likely results from a sociologic standpoint and not from its moral turpitude side which is repulsive and has led to other chaotic damage to the American Family.
If you are a Libertarian, it is a great boon for personal freedom, I suppose. It is also an open invitation to see birth rates of the indigenous members of the U.S. plummet which invites in our neighbors of Hispanic background and also peoples from countries the Philippines (nurses are in short supply--ask California; doctors--US wide), India (engineers, physics practitioners), etc. The Hispanics tend to be Christian, a good many are Catholic, and so the U.S. is slowly becoming a brown-skinned and perhaps eventual Catholic country (estimates are 2050 is the cross-over).
Since the history of democracy to our South is problematic, we may eventually end up with a monarchy which has always been of benefit to my religion anyway so let it come.
But hey, it is a liberal sacrament so let's let the teens abort and use all sorts of birth control. It won't stop the trend now and neither will the mile high fence.
Harry A. Blackmun...social engineer.
When a woman becomes pregnant, her body gears up to support the pregnancy. An abortion is an operation that suddenly shuts that down, causing physical and sometimes mental trauma. The effect is quite unlike a natural abortion. A therpeutic abortion can, therefore, not really be called therapy, and such interventions are compounded when the abortionists bitches the procedure. Does an abortion "cause" breast cancer? My guess is that only in the sense that a bullet wound might cause a stroke. Neither would is good for the victim. The main difference is that doctors usually don't shoot their patients.
Many thanks! I did not know of that article. It is a gem!
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