Posted on 10/23/2001 1:46:49 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy
October is breast cancer awareness month. Did you know there's a LINK between abortion and breast cancer? The abortion industry doesn't want this information to be known. God forbid if women had all the facts; it would cut into their big fat PROFITS! Three of us California women are suing Planned Parenthood - not for money but for the truth. All we're asking is that Planned Parenthood tell women about this link. Evidence shows that women who have abortions, especially in their younger years, have a greater risk of developing breast cancer later in life. Thirteen out of fifteen U.S. studies show an increased risk of developing breast cancer in women who have had abortions.
Anyway, whenever you are feeling put upon and terrorized by these people in the coming year as you battle on the side of TRUTH, know that there are thousands and thousands of women who are behind you 100%.
People who actually stand up and do something deserve the thanks of the world.
Way to go.
Good God, whose idea was it to sue in Calfornia? If you want to set a legal precendent do it in Utah or someplace with fewer liberal state and federal judges.
O.K.: "Tort terrorism" it is:
Against the Left(!):
Deliciously ironic.
If you really cared about these women experiencing heartache and pain, you wouldn't be on a junk science based crusade to convince them they have more to feel heartache and pain about than they really do. Using junk science to manipulate people's emotions is evil. And the "deep dark secret" about this is of the same variety as the deep dark secret about the Bilderbergers and the Trilateral Commission and the Illuminati plotting to take over the world.
Have you and your legal team considered that this may be "THE" case that goes all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States to test the leality of Roe v. Wade ?
From your Post #71: Actually, the research shows that having a miscarriage does not contribute to breast cancer later in life. The reason is that it was a natural occurrence and your body prepared itself for the miscarriage. My miscarriage messed up my mind and my emotions but apparently we are safe from this breast cancer link, sister. I love you. For victory & freedom!!! Saundra
From article in Post #73: According to Dr. Brind's findings, any interruption in pregnancy, whether a spontaneous ("miscarriage") or induced abortion, increases the risk significantly.
So let me get this straight, do you or don't you regard Dr. Brind's research as scientifically valid?
I didn't understand the link at first. I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard. Then I read, that in pregnancy, certain hormones are surging through a woman's body. When you have an abortion, it affects those hormones; you completely throw them out of whack. This does damage to the body because it is such a severe change. This in turn can cause breast cancer, because some types of cancer are hormone-dependent, or hormone-induced. That's my take on it, in a nutshell.
Maybe someone can post the actual correct info.
A large body of research has shown that the more periods a woman has in a lifetime, regardless of the reason, the higher her risk for breast cancer. The hormone levels in a non-pregnant, non-lactating woman are conducive to increasing breast cancer risk, and the more periods a woman has, the more exposure she has to these hormones (estrogen is apparently the primary culprit). As a result, women who reached puberty early and/or menopause late have a higher breast cancer risk, as well as women who have few or no children. This could account for some statistical distortion in the "first pregnancy aborted" statistic, since girls who reach puberty early are more likely to become sexually active and pregnant at an age when they (often with their parents concurrence) would not consider having a baby, and thus are more likely to abort their first pregnancy--translation: these early puberty girls had a higher risk of breast cancer to start with, and are likely overrepresented in the "first pregnancy aborted" group.
Dr. Brind readily admits (see Post #73) that the earlier a pregnancy is terminated (whether through spontaneious miscarriage or induced abortion), the greater the increase in breast cancer risk--this is consistent with the more periods = more breast cancer link, and leads to the unfortunate conclusion that if breast cancer risk is to be a determining factor in abortion choices, then third trimester abortions are best, followed by second trimester, with first trimester adding the most risk. This said, the research from the most respected sources doesn't show a tremendous increase in breast cancer due to the "more periods" factor--it's definitely statistically significant, but not such that any sane woman would have more children than she wants, or would put off a first trimester abortion until the third trimester, just in hopes of reducing her breast cancer risk.
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