Posted on 09/22/2010 4:21:05 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A microbiologist says there are so many published studies confirming the link between induced abortion and breast cancer that he plans to publish one every day on his blog until he's mentioned them all. It will take Dr. Gerard Nadal so many weeks to cover them all, the blogging will continue until early next year.
Nadal, who has a has a PhD in Molecular Microbiology from St John's University in New York, has spent 16 years teaching science, most recently at Manhattan College.
He will report on one abortion-breast cancer study daily until he has exhausted all of the abortion-breast cancer studies and he anticipates he may be reporting on these studies as late as January or February of 2011.
"Today begins the inexorable presentation of the scientific literature on the abortion/breast cancer link," Nadal writes. "Women’s lives depend on us getting the truth out to them. In short order we'll generate plenty of pros armed with the simple truth of science!"
His first article reviews a 1997 epidemiological study by Julie Palmer, Lynn Rosenberg and their colleagues, "Induced and spontaneous abortion in relation to breast cancer," published in the journal, Cancer Causes and Control.
Palmer and Rosenberg are not unbiased researchers, which makes their findings even more relevant for women. Instead, they are abortion advocates who have testified as expert witnesses on behalf of abortion businesses in lawsuits challenging the states of Alaska and Florida because of their parental notice or consent laws.
Their study, supported by U.S. National Cancer Institute grants, examined 1,835 women ages 25-64 years with pathologically confirmed, invasive breast cancer and 4,289 women aged 25-64 admitted for nonmalignant or malignant conditions.
Nadal says the study found women who had never had children and who had one case of an induced abortion raised their abortion breast cancer risk by 40 percent.
"So in plain English, women who had one induced abortion, regardless of ever having had a child, had a 40% increased risk of developing breast cancer over women the same age, with the same parity status who never had abortions, and the authors are 95% certain that there is no other explanation," he said.
Nadal says the study further showed that for women who had a child previously, "there is a 30% increased risk of cancer" and it "may well be explained by additional stimulation of the lobules by estrogen in the aborted pregnancy, without the benefit of lactogen at the end."
Nadal says observers of the debate about the abortion and breast cancer link should pay attention to another part of the study where the authors attempt to undermine their own results in an effort to downplay the abortion-breast cancer link.
The authors claim their own study suffers from a form of recall bias -- despite their assertion that they were 95% certain that the results could not be due to chance. The authors believe women with breast cancer are less likely to hide their an abortion from the health questioners compiling the data than women without breast cancer.
"They offer no proof of this phenomenon other than the same assertions made by other breast cancer researchers with similar data. In other words, the phenomenon is a baseless assertion reverberating in the pro-abortion echo chamber," Nadal writes.
"Are we really to believe that breast cancer brings women closer to telling the truth of their previous abortions? Why the acuity of memory in a breast cancer patient vs. the control patients? The abortion question was just one in a long, detailed history taken during the study," Nadal continues. "There is no rational basis for believing that women with breast cancer are more apt to recall and report an abortion than any other women."
Despite that, the authors conclude in their study: “The small elevations in risk observed in the present study and in previous studies are compatible with what would be expected if there were differential underreporting by cases and controls.”
Nadal says that doesn't pass the scientific straight face test.
"If I had pulled that crap during my dissertation defense, my committee would have laughed me out of the room," he said.
However, as Nadal blogs about the abortion-breast cancer studies, he says this is a recurring theme.
"But, as we shall see over and over on a daily basis for months to come, this is what happens when ideology (and not physiology) becomes the prism through which data are filtered," he says.
Exactly.
We’re not talking McDonald’s here.
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Agreed.
Excellent Post. Thanks for all the information!
Your logic apparently says that if something is posted on Free Republic, it must have been seen by everyone on here. Give me a break.
I am glad that I was made aware of the connection b/t Komen and PP.
P.S. Your halo needs some polishing; noticed a little dull spot there.
I did a very small research project on Eugenics. Learned a lot about Sanger and how that whole ideology played right into the NAZIs and their evil. It just never ends.
My comment about logic was not directed at you, nor were my other comments in that post.
Metmom, philosophically and spiritually I think we are aligned (I am an evangelical Christian who is pro-life, pro-marriage, and base my values on Christ’s teaching... I believe you do the same). The only point you made in your post that I really think you should give some more thought to is about the hospitals being used for their reproductive services.
The LAST thing I want is a bunch of people to start using the hospitals for their routine services. I think there should be more options besides Planned Parenthood but I don’t know what all those options or answers might be, other than clinics to be developed that might serve women’s reproductive needs without doing abortions. Of course, even that starts getting dicey because technically, Roman Catholic teaching says no artificial birth control and even many evangelicals believe it is wrong.
I just think we need to stay vocal about what Planned Parenthood does and pray, pray, pray.
If you know about their link to Planned Parenthood and - judging by the thread - apparently I am the only person who didn’t seem to know this link, then how is it hidden?
I am not sure I get you. Meanwhile, I assume you have (or still do) support crisis pregnancy centers with your resources of time and money. I have worked at them before and raised money, donated money, and given baby showers for the girls who decide to keep their babies. My church does a lot of stuff as a corporate effort as well.
I’m not going to blast Komen because they aren’t perfect.
I know you are passionate, which is a good thing.
I know of hospitals which have breast screening clinics incorporated with them. There’s one in CNY here and it’s very close to a poor section of town. The local bus lines all make it one of their stops.
It’s not a matter of using hospitals for *reproductive services*, it’s having mammography equipment available in a separate section where women can go for mammograms.
It only makes sense as hospitals often have other radiology services attached to them. Even small ones are Capable of doing MRI’s and CAT scans and I believe that mammograms are not as costly as those.
One of my favorite aphorisms:
Knowledge is Power
It is really so true. Truth to Power is also a good one but you need the knowledge to know the truth.
Amen.
Yes, this is true, I know. There are also tons of centers (including the one where I go) that is a stand-alone facility affiliated with the hospitals, including the renowned Cleveland Clinic.
However, just because you know of them, that does not mean they all are near poor sections of town. The ones I go to are definitely not. Planned Parenthood deliberately places itself in metropolitan areas and in inner ring burbs.
You do have me interested so I’m going to do some checking to see where OURS are to see if my theory on where they pop us is correct (not to mention near colleges).
I am not talking about any link to planned parenthood..
Didn’t you read my post to you???
I said the problem with Komen is that they don’t teach, inform or promote the Abortion and Breast Cancer link to abortion and by keeping that information secret, they are promoting breast cancer among women.
Abortion is the single most avoidable cause for Breast Cancer and Komen keeps that a secret.
If one supports Komen, they are support abortion, Komen is a pro-abortion organization.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/komen/index?tab=articles
Coleus, if you follow the logic in your post, then you would not be able very many investments, or money in the bank, etc. I have heard this kind of discussion before. If I donate money to Komen, I can say to myself, “well MY money goes to the breast research and the guy who is pro-abortion who donates, well HIS money is going to the abortion part of their dealings”) and the truth of it is that God ultimately owns everything and is sovereign.
I know people who have knocked other people for investing in a particular company’s stock if that company has some business streams that might not be Christ-centered or even totally against Christ, but then you have to think about your money in the bank and where that bank might be investing, or the mutual funds you are in that might have some questionable practices. If you buy ANY product you better check out the company that makes it and make sure they aren’t doing anything questionable or that their CEO isn’t some really evil guy. Moreover, any company that has set up shop in China is guilty of working with people who are in serious violation of humanity - not to mention persecution of Christians. So, do you buy anything ever made in China? Do you see how this line of thought can get so convoluted? I do.
I think that Komen needs to be up front about two issues: 1) that there is a strong link b/t abortion and breast cancer. The other posters on here have mentioned the hypocrisy of them not doing so and I agree. If they care about reducing the numbers of breast cancer victims, they really should be educating the public about all the information that is available.
2) They should be up front and honest about their financing of Planned Parenthood.
Other than that, I think they operate like millions of businesses - large and small - in this country.
REPEAT: Do not support the Race for the Cure!!!!!!
They give money to Planned Parenthood which performs abortions and causes more breast cancer.
Can’t have it both ways!
If you donate to komen, you are donating to satan! You are either a stealth democrat here on the FR; not pro life or thinking with your hormones instead of your brain. You called wagglebee “mean spirited” a term used mostly by liberal democrats... I think you must be one of them.. Give all your money to komen if you wish, you were presented with the truth and just can’t understand it. No pro-life person I know gives money or respects komen...You still don’t admit that komen lies to young women about the abortion and breast cancer link...If you ask Jesus for forgiveness, I’m sure He will forgive you.
Coleus, if you think that a person on here must be a liberal just for using pretty simple words in the English dictionary, then I just can’t help you at all.
You have lied in your post. You said that I still “don’t admit” that Komen is lying about the relationship b/t abortion and cancer. I sent out numerous posts on this thread that indicated that I HATE Planned Parenthood and that I had previously been unaware of their link to Komen. I also THANKED a couple of Freepers on here who enlightened me about the connection.
I also wrote in one of my posts that I had even sent out an email to several Catholic friends about the link. I have now received a few responses back from said friends - some said they already knew and a few were shocked.
So, after it’s all been said and done, what I have learned is that there are people willing to engage in sincere, clear dialog and I am all too happy to participate.
I do not,however, appreciate your slurs and insults that I am a liberal (I do consider that an insult).
I have been a follower of Christ since age 17 and I am now 52 years old. The anger I hear in YOUR voice actually reminds me of the liberals that I know who are just hateful and mean - they are usually the ones to use words like “whore” in their speech. Also, I am reminded more than ever of those I know who are still lost and have not accepted Christ who often say that Jesus they “like,” but it’s His followers they have problems with. Well, amen to that.
I’m not going to blast Komen because they aren’t perfect. >>>
your words in post #68; that’s all i need to hear...you look evil in the eye and support it.
It’s best to speak the truth in love, so I am taught. I would rather share the truth than be a clanging gong. People will get it and the ones who don’t, well, they are not pro-life anyway.
Keep chipping. Satan likes it when we chip at each other.
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