FIRST U.S. ABORTION-BREAST CANCER LAWSUIT SETTLED

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer ^ | October 21, 2003 | Karen Malec

[Saundra Duffy]

COALITION ON ABORTION/BREAST CANCER P.O. Box 152 Palos Heights, IL 60463 Toll Free 1-877-803-0102 www.AbortionBreastCancer.com response@abortionbreastcancer.com

Press Release Contact: Karen Malec For Immediate Release Date: October 21, 2003

FIRST U.S. ABORTION-BREAST CANCER LAWSUIT SETTLED

PHILADELPHIA: The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer announced today that the first U.S. abortion-breast cancer (ABC) lawsuit settled for an undisclosed amount on October 17, 2003. The case was filed in Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. The plaintiff was a 17-year-old Pennsylvania resident when a second-trimester abortion was performed in New Jersey without parental knowledge or consent. Although she hasn't developed breast cancer, she sued her abortion provider, Charles Benjamin, for neglecting to warn her about the physical and emotional risks of abortion.

Karen Malec, the coalition's president, declared, "This settlement will teach the medical establishment that it can no longer profit by keeping women in the dark about the breast cancer risk. This case also establishes that abortion providers can be sued for battery if the abortion provider performs no parental consent abortions on minors from neighboring states (with parental consent statutes), even if the state where the abortion is performed does not have a parental consent statute."

The plaintiff's attorney, Joseph P. Stanton, will hold a press conference on a later date. For further details, contact his office at: 405 Old York Road, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania; phone 215/886-6780.

The ABC link has been called "the elephant in medicine's parlor." Medical experts privately say abortion causes breast cancer, but the volatility of the issue prevents them from publicly acknowledging it.

According to a National Cancer Institute (NCI) commissioned study, teens who procure abortions before age 18, more than double their risk. [1] Girls and women have a predominance of immature, cancer-vulnerable Types 1 & 2 breast lobules, which aren't matured into cancer-resistant Types 3 & 4 lobules until a term pregnancy takes place. Abortion can increase the statistical odds of developing breast cancer in two ways: 1) It delays a first term pregnancy; and 2) It increases the number of cancer-vulnerable breast cells because estrogen overexposure during a normal pregnancy stimulates cell multiplication. Women don't receive protection from estrogen overexposure until third trimester hormones mature their breast tissue into milk-producing Types 3 & 4 lobules.

Scientists have proven themselves incapable of refuting the biological explanation for the ABC link. Thirteen out of 16 U.S. studies report risk elevations. The NCI provided at least partial funding for 10 studies.

Minnesota and Texas state legislators passed informed consent legislation earlier this year. Massachusetts is considering similar legislation. Five medical organizations say abortion is one of the causes of breast cancer. [2]

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women's organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.

References: 1. Daling et al. (1994) J Natl Cancer Inst 86:1584-92. 2. National Physicians Center for Family Resources, Catholic Medical Association, American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Polycarp Research Institute, Breast Cancer Prevention Institute.

[cpforlife.org]

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[restornu]

You may think your so all knowing and try to scare people off you come off as a bully!

The research for breast cancer/abortion connection has been going on for many years.

They take a history of every women who has had BC which one of the question is did you have an abortion. Yes there could be other reasons one can get BC besides AB such as the pill or maybe some thing in the cycle is disrupted etc.

I know there is valid truth to this be it the pill, abortion, or a disfunction in natural cycle. For they are all responsible causing misimformation being process in the body!

There are universal laws that if violated will cause one to pay a price! Please don't confuse with morality which is a guideline to live by but this planet of mortality is of perfect order and one will reap what one sows!

[cpforlife.org]

Wonderful News Saundra!!

The truth is finally getting out on ABC.

Once the momentum starts we will have the demons on the run!

[GovernmentShrinker]

You still don't get the difference between correlation and causation.

[discostu]

Wow three incorrect statements in one sentence: I don't think I'm all knowing, I'm not trying to scare people off, and I'm not coming off as a bully.

Yes the research has been going on for many years, I'm even willing to accept that the research has proven a difinitive correlation. But correlation isn't causation, and people are claiming abortion CAUSES breast cancer, while this very well might be true it hasn't been proven, not even close to it.

I'm not confusing anything with morality, I'm discussion science and it's relationship to the law. I accept as a given that abortion is immoral, as I've said elsewhere on this thread I would like to see it go away because I think as long as America has abortions we are a sick society. But my feelings have nothing to do with scientific truth or the courts. And as it currently stands there is no scientific proof that abortion causes breast cancer, not the kind of proof that's needed in court.

[TheAngryClam]

What, like filing junk lawsuits where I don't have standing and then getting upset that I get sanctions imposed on me by the court?

[spectre]

Saundra, I don't know for sure if there is a link between abortion and breast cancer. I firmly believe that BC happens for whatever reason the little cells decide to go haywire.

Abortion, HRT, birth control pills, being overweight, smoking, drinking..all, or combinations, have been linked to Breast Cancer. And sometimes there is no history or reason, it just happens..but you know that.

This girl might have come down with BC, even IF she didn't have an abortion, that's my point.

I would have some sympathy for her if she ACTUALLY has BC. But she doesn't.

Don't misunderstand me, Saundra. I DO applaud your efforts, but this verdict stinks, and opens way too many doors.

sw

[John Beresford Tipton]

"but this verdict stinks"

It is a settlement and not a "verdict"
It is of no legal precedental value.
But one result is that it might embolden other shysters to try to shake down doctors with this junk science.

P.S. Though I did not get Microsoft's blue screen of death today, I think I'll sue Gates anyway for not telling me that I might have gotten it today.

[spectre]

OK..the "settlement" stinks. Thank you, John :~)

sw

[Coleus]

abc ping

[Saundra Duffy]

Thank you for the pro life ping. Here's hoping Terri is going to bounce back. For life!

[Saundra Duffy]

"Junk Science". This is a Planned Parenthood planned spin. I ran into it when we filed the lawsuit in San Diego. Pretty cute. Useful idiot comes to mind.

[fqued]

You may be missing the background of what is going on here.

It appears that this a PENNSYLVANIA case.

The case Planned Parenthood v. Casey was decided by SCOTUS in about 1994. My understanding is that Pennsylvania passed a law which, among other things, required that those who wanted an abortion had to be informed about the pros and cons of having an abortion. this portion of the bill was upheld by SCOTUS.

This same sort of case may not apply in any other state, but it is the law in PA.

[fatima]

Thanks for the info Sandra,congrats to Joseph P. Stanton,Stanton family you give all for life,John,Pat,Joe.

[gcruse]

Although she hasn't developed breast cancer,

It's embarassing what conservatives celebrate as long
as it is what they want to believe.

[RJCogburn]

Although she hasn't developed breast cancer, she sued her abortion provider, Charles Benjamin, for neglecting to warn her about the physical and emotional risks of abortion

I wonder if they want women to also be made aware of the recent, and well designed, study that showed that breast cancer risk was DECREASED by abortion, either spontaneous of induced.

[Antoninus]

You people are a joke. Our country is being turned inside out by ludicrous law suits, political judges, "creative" lawyers, and idiotic juries. Like it or not, that's the way the system works now and NOBODY is doing anything substantive to reverse this. Indeed, it gets worse every day.

As long as we live in such an environment of rule by lawsuit and judicial fiat, I have absolutely no problem with our side pursuing the same course. Fight fire with fire. Otherwise, the Culture of Death will run rough-shod over us as they have for the past 30+ years.

Then again, for most of you who advocate unilateral legal disarmament, I suspect you view the past 30 years as great "progress" on life/death issues. Personally, I would love to see thousands of frivolous lawsuits filed every year against the abortion industry. If that's what it takes to put them out of business, so be it.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Who are women going to sue for miscarriages that might cause breast cancer?

There is no link between miscarriages (spontaneous abortion) and breast cancer. The link is between induced abortions and breast cancer. According to the study, the body reacts negatively to an abortion that was not the result of a natural cause.

[Torie]

Poohbah is looking at it the right way. The issue is not that abortion is being treated differently as to any other procedure as to disclosure of the risks; rather it is that the injuries are too speculative. If and when a real injury manifests itself, and causation shown, then a lawsuit would be appropriate. Granted there are statute of limitations problems, but maybe in statute does not begin to run until injury occurs. About that, I don't know.

[TheAngryClam]

When you dance with the devil, you don't change the devil. The devil changes you.