[Not News to FReepers:] First Case Linking Abortion-Breast Cancer Settled

www.CNSnews.com ^ | 1/4/2002 | Patrick Goodenough

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This story was picked up last week at FR: see the FR thread from 12-27-2001

FReeper activist extraordinaire Saundra Duffy has also sued Planned Parenthood (aka Planned WhiteNeighborhood or Planned DeadBabyHood) to keep them from lying to moms about breast cancer and abortion.

Click here for FR search for "breast cancer"

Better yet, click here for FR search for "abortion" and "breast cancer"

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[buffyt]

Finally some truth is starting to come out. The fact that the doctors only do the abortions, get paid, and that is the end of it, makes me so sick. The psychological damage is there for the rest of the woman's life and the doctors don't seem to want to address that. I know a gal who had an abortion when she was early twenties and she has suffered depression ever since. It affected her sanity. There are now churches with twelve step programs for women who have had abortions and are now suffering depression caused by the guilt. No one told them about the guilt they would suffer! I am not against abortion when the baby is outside the womb and thus dooming the mother and the baby. But I am not in favor of abortion as birth control! Killing is killing. If I killed my kids before birth it would be the exact same thing as if I killed them now that they are 17, 18, and 20 years old. No difference. I lost one due to an early miscarriage. I plan to meet her in heaven someday!

[IM2Phat4U]

How about some public service announcments! If the government can pay for PSA's discouraging the smoking of cigarettes, it can certainly pay for PSA's discouraging abortion. Even the "personally opposed" crowd couldn't object to this.

www.abortioncancer.com

www.abortionbreastcancer.com

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Here is the correct link to FReeper activist extraordinaire Saundra Duffy

[LibertyGirl77]

I can see the good in what this lawyer is trying to do, but find it tragic that the plain fact that abortionists murder innocent, defenseless babies isn't enough to get women to sign on to a lawsuit. Instead, it takes potential breast cancer. Things have to impact people's own personal convenience and comfort before they'll act. It's sick.

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MOMS HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW:

28 out of 37 studies show a link between 

abortion and breast cancer.

13 out of 15 U.S. studies reported a link -- 17 were statistically 
significant, 16 of which found increased risk -- 7 show more than a twofold increase in risk*

[elfman2]

A link is not a cause.

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Does flatulence cause sudden room evacuations, or is there merely a link between the two?

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[phil1750]

Outstanding reply to post #8 congratulations.

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The U.S. National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Britain are among those who argue that there is no need to tell a woman considering an abortion that there may be an increased risk of breast cancer. Doing so would only add to the woman's anxiety at an already stressful time, representatives have said.

What a ridiculous conclusion. That's like saying we can't tell patients that putting their hearts on a bypass machine may kill them because the info would only add to the stress of the whole thing. Sheesh. Seems pretty transparent to me - information like this could jeopardize the abortion money mill, couldn't it.

[IM2Phat4U]

One addition to a PSA that should be on billboards across the country:

MOMS HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW

28 out of 37 studies show a link between 

abortion and breast cancer.

13 out of 15 U.S. studies reported a link -- 17 were statistically 
significant, 16 of which found increased risk -- 7 show more than a twofold increase in risk*

Paid for by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

[FreeTally]

What I find wrong with this is considering all of the crap the average person ingests into their body over their life(or from birth to pregnancy), and all of the chemicals we are exposed to, no one, not one person, can say "this" or "that" caused the cancer. Yes, studies may show a link, but the studies can not consider thousands of other factors that probably contributed.

When we allow law suits on the basis of "links", then almost any industry could face lawsuits over their products. And when it comes to cancer(and considering that the AMA changes its mind every year as to what contributes to or helps lower the risk of getting cancer), until science can SHOW what CAUSES cancer, then no lawsuits should be allowed.

[elfman2]

If you're too dim witted to see the difference, don't talk to me.

[FreeTally]

Francis has represented several women suing abortionists for not warning them of the possible psychiatric consequences of abortion.

This bothers me too. Any woman who claims that she did not think that killing her unborn baby would not cause emotional or mental problems is either full of crap, or is just plain stupid for listening to NOW, PP and others who say there is nothing "wrong" with abortions. I have no sympathy for their "emotions". This is common sense - Killing your own child SHOULD screw you up in the head, unless you were already screwed up to begin with.

[CholeraJoe]

Can you explain this article?

Abortion history and breast cancer risk: results from the Shanghai Breast Cancer Study.

Sanderson M - Int J Cancer - 15-Jun-2001; 92(6): 899-905
From NIH/NLM MEDLINE

NLM Citation ID:
11351314 (PubMed}
21248730 (MEDLINE)

Full Source Title:
International Journal of Cancer

Publication Type:
Journal Article

Language:
English

Author Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina and South Carolina Cancer Center, Columbia, SC, USA. msanderson@sph.sc.edu

Authors:
Sanderson M; Shu XO; Jin F; Dai Q; Wen W; Hua Y; Gao YT; Zheng W

Abstract:
Studies of the association between induced abortion and breast cancer risk have been inconsistent, perhaps due to underreporting of abortions. Induced abortion is a well-accepted family planning procedure in China, and women who have several induced abortions do not feel stigmatized. The authors used data from a population-based case-control study of breast cancer among women age 25-64 conducted between 1996 and 1998 in urban Shanghai to assess whether a history of and the number of induced abortions were related to breast cancer risk. In-person interviews were completed with 1,459 incident breast cancer cases ascertained through a population-based cancer registry, and 1,556 controls randomly selected from the general population in Shanghai (with respective response rates of 91% and 90%). After adjusting for confounding, there was no relation between ever having had an induced abortion and breast cancer (odds ratio [OR] = 0.9, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.7-1.2).

Women who had 3 or more induced abortions were not at increased risk of premenopausal breast cancer (OR = 0.9, 95% CI 0.6-1.4) or postmenopausal breast cancer (OR = 1.3, 95% CI 0.8-2.3). These results suggest that a history of several induced abortions has little influence on breast cancer risk in Chinese women.

Copyright 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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I see you are afraid to answer my question. Of course that is your right.

[elfman2]

" When we allow law suits on the basis of "links", then almost any industry could face lawsuits over their products. "

No doubt. Women who have abortions are more likely to be smokers, drinkers, do drugs, eat fattening foods, have an undisciplined spiritual life, take less precautions to avoid toxins, etc…