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.

[discostu]

That's the fourth time you've responded to the exact same post, all with claims none with any sort of external backup of your claims.

[Catspaw]

Its not the suit that is the art - its finding somebody to sue even though you never used the service or consumed the product that didn't harm you. That takes a true master.

Okay, first I have to find the right lawyer. Then I have to walk through Walmart....

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

I disagree. We are instructed ad nauseum that we must inform the patient of every risk factor or be liable. Considering this procedure has a long term impact on a woman' health (breast cancer, infertility, miscarriage), patients have a right to be informed. This information might cause them to decide not to have the procedure, something which does not suit Planned Parenthood's bank accounts.

The breast cancer link has been cited in nearly 30 research studies since 1957. Breast cells multiply rapidly in the early stages of pregnancy. They do not reach maturity until the third trimester. Any termination in the pregnancy (other than spontaneous miscarriage due to low hormonal levels) before the third trimester leaves these hormonally charged, immature breast cells at increased risk of cancerous changes. This is biological fact. No amount of political spin will change this.

Dr. Janet Dahling, a pro-choice researcher, performed a research study with the intent of debunking the abortion-breast cancer link. Her findings did not support her intent but being an honest scientist, she published them anyway. For every woman with a family history of breast cancer who had an abortion, ALL of them had breast cancer by the age of 45.

One of my close friends got breast cancer when she was 27. She had a family history of breast cancer, used hormonal birth control, and had an abortion as a teenager. She died when she was 32. A second friend was diagnosed a few years ago with breast cancer at the age of 39. She had a family history, used hormonal birth control and had an abortion at the age of 16. She called me three weeks ago. Her cancer has metasticized to the lungs and lymph nodes. Her chances are not good.

Not only have I read the research and found it credible, I've seen it firsthand with my friends. If both had been informed of the risks, K. would be alive today and J. would not be facing death.

[nickcarraway]

DR. JANET DALING'S STUDY

One especially disturbing study on women was done by Dr. Janet Daling at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in 1994. Dr. Daling, an abortion supporter, found that “among women who had been pregnant at least once, the risk of breast cancer in those who had experienced an induced abortion was 50% higher than among other women.” [Janet R. Daling et al., “Risk of Breast Cancer Among Young Women: Relationship to Induced Abortion,” 86 Journal of the National Cancer Institute; (1994);1584].

Dr. Daling’s study found that teenagers under age 18 and women over 30 years of age who procure an abortion increase their breast cancer risk by more than 100%. Those with a family history of the disease increase their risk 80%. Daling’s most alarming finding was that teenagers with a family history of breast cancer who procure an abortion face a risk of breast cancer that is incalculably high. All 12 women in her study with this history were diagnosed with breast cancer by the age of 45.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

The National Cancer Institute, The National Breast Cancer Coalition, the American Cancer Society, and the World Health Organization have all ruled that no proven link exists.

Oh heck, what would they know?

[nickcarraway]

A PLANNED PARENTHOOD EXPERT'S TESTIMONY Planned Parenthood expert, Dr. Lynn Rosenberg, a Boston University Medical School epidemiologist, testified in the fall of 1999 in a Florida case on the abortion-breast cancer link. When asked by an attorney whether a pregnant 15 year old who aborts her pregnancy has a higher risk of breast cancer than one who carries her pregnancy to term, Dr. Rosenberg answered, “Probably, yes." [Dr. Joel Brind, “ABC in the Courts: Dramatic ABC Testimony in Florida’s Parental Notification Appeal,” Abortion-Breast Cancer Quarterly Update, (Fall, 1999) Vol. 2, No. 3, p. 1].

[Smogger]

Future uses of this precedent include enviroweenies saying that, although they HAVEN'T developed cancer from automobile exhaust, there's circumstantial evidence that they MIGHT develop cancer, and thus we need to outlaw all but zero emissions vehicles.

Your analogy is completely worthless. We are talking about an elective medical procedure here for which patients have a right, and doctors a duty to disclose the potential risks. Were not talking about breathing.

A better analogy would be you goto a doctor to get Viagra, and the doctor neglects to inform you that by taking JUST ONE DOSE the chances of getting testicular cancer in your lifetime effectively double, while knowing full well that it does.

Not to mention the issue of skirting parental notification laws.

[Smogger]

Future uses of this precedent include enviroweenies saying that, although they HAVEN'T developed cancer from automobile exhaust, there's circumstantial evidence that they MIGHT develop cancer, and thus we need to outlaw all but zero emissions vehicles.

Your analogy is completely worthless. We are talking about an elective medical procedure here for which patients have a right, and doctors a duty to disclose the potential risks. Were not talking about breathing.

A better analogy would be you goto a doctor to get Viagra, and the doctor neglects to inform you that by taking JUST ONE DOSE the chances of getting testicular cancer in your lifetime effectively double, while knowing full well that it does.

Should you wait until you get the cancer to sue for negligence?

Not to mention the issue of skirting parental notification laws.

[discostu]

Four different links to the exact same page?! How spammy and useless of you. The only thing answered there is a possible explanation for the how, though nothing about that actually being researched and nothing to explain why the time lag. Nothing in there about other unhealthy lifestyles and how they could impact the woman's chances of getting breast cancer, peopel that get abortions don't lead healthy lifestyles and those links will have to be eliminated. So far still UNPROVEN. They need more studies that work harder to show CAUSE not just corelation.

[Smogger]

Looks to me like another way for lawyers to get rich. I’ve been operated on eight times, and stitched up a few more, and I’m sure the doctors forgot to warn me about something so I guess I’ll go find a lawyer.

If the procedure was ELECTIVE and no one informed you that the risk of getting an already very common form of cancer DOUBLED I think you might have a good case.

[nickcarraway]

Dr. Janet Daling, who is strongly pro-choice, told the L.A. Daily News in September 1997: "If politics gets involved in science it will really hold back the progress that we make. I have three sisters with breast cancer and I resent people messing with the scientific data to further their own agenda, be they pro-choice or pro-life. I would have loved to have found no association between breast cancer and abortion, but our research is rock solid, and our data is accurate. It's not a matter of believing, it's a matter of what is."

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Good luck to you life. With that kind of thought pattern you're going to need it.

P.S. Never go into medicine. Please.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Should you wait until you get the cancer to sue for negligence?

There it is, as predicted.

Shelion and Max - these guys are all for suing even before a problem occurs. What say you about how this notion applies to smoking?

[nickcarraway]

Please, get the medical journals. I am not a scientist, are you? These researchers accounted for all those factors. That's what scientists do. This is not one study- it's over 30 of them.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

I believe in truth. I won't.

[restornu]

Thanks for the thread I am so glad we have something to fight the abortion mill(body snatchers)!

Praise the Lord!

[discostu]

Again correlation with an untested theory of how. No proof of causality. Nothing to eliminate other possible links. I can whip up 100 studies that every single person that picks their nose dies, that would prove a correlation, but until I can show that picking your nose causes death and how it does so I've truly proven nothing.