Posted on 08/21/2002 7:30:57 PM PDT by kattracks
A congressman who spoke to a group of breast cancer survivors about the link between abortion and breast cancer, a tie supported by dozens of studies, is being castigated for daring to mention this reality.
Several of the 11 breast cancer survivors who called on Rep. John N. Hostettler, R-Ind., to ask him to support more federal money for breast cancer research were shocked when he insisted on discussing what studies have found about the connection between abortion and the disease, the Washington Post reported. Several of the women "were surprised to be given a lecture on the perils of abortion."
"It upset us that he seemed to imply that having an abortion was the main thing we needed to address to eliminate breast cancer," said Monica Hawkins, a 60-year-old breast cancer survivor. "The point is, none of us in that room had an abortion."
Hostettler's comments "have ignited a political firestorm in his district," according to the Post, meaning that pro-abortion Democrats are trying to use the incident to explain why he should be defeated for re-election in November, although he is "heavily favored to win."
Indiana Democrat party chairman Peter J. Manous, for example, said Hostettler's remarks were "grossly insensitive" and demanded an apology despite the fact that the congressman was merely trying to warn women of the possible dangers of breast cancer they face if they have abortions.
Hostettler told the Evansville Courier & Press that the meeting was "a discussion of breast cancer research and other issues. They did not want to talk about certain issues, and I wanted to. … If they don't like what I say, I can't help that."
National Cancer Institute says there is no established link between breast cancer and abortion despite a host of studies that strongly support the link, which thanks to intense pressure from the billion-dollar abortion industry is a taboo subject for the liberal media establishment.
A link between breast cancer and abortion was clearly indicated in studies conducted in the United States, Japan, Denmark, Italy and Russia. One study showed that women who had one or two abortions before a full-term pregnancy doubled their risk, and women who had three or more abortions tripled their risk. Similar conclusions were found from studies conducted in Israel, Canada, France and Japan.
’A Matter of What Is’
"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," said the pro-abortion Dr. Janet Dailing of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, who has reached the conclusion linking breast cancer to abortion.
Thousands of women could die because of the failure of the medical establishment and government to warn women of the link between abortion and breast cancer. British researchers from Populations and Pensions Research Institution, an independent group of statisticians, reported that women who procure abortions double their risks of breast cancer, the British publication The Age reported Dec. 4, 2001.
Statisticians examined the incidences of breast cancer and abortion in Finland, Sweden and Great Britain, and concluded that the increasing frequency of the disease was directly related to a climb in the abortion rates.
The statisticians determined that as many as half the cases of breast cancer in England and Wales between 1997 and 2023 "will be attributable to abortion." Patrick Carroll, a statistician and author, revealed that breast cancer rates in England would surge from 35,110 in 1997 to 77,000 in 2023. This dramatic increase will occur because of the large number of abortions performed before the first full-term pregnancy.
A woman who has never given birth unknowingly subjects herself to greater risks for the disease by having an abortion because her breast cells are in an immature state and are especially vulnerable to carcinogens at that time. Beginning at the outset of pregnancy, estrogen levels climb 2,000 percent and cause a terrific multiplication of breast cells. When she undergoes an abortion, she is left with more cancer-vulnerable cells than she had before the pregnancy. The maturing process known as "differentiation" does not take place until the third trimester and provides a woman with more cancer-resistant cells.
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If you add the involuntary miscarriages (which are not so rare) the main causes of breast cancer might be already found.
Regardless, none of these women would admit publicly to the first possibility. Denial is a very strong defense mechanism.
I think that such denial can be also present in the husbands, lovers, friends and family members who encouraged abortion.
Well, for one thing, it will publicise the studies showing a causal link between abortion and breast cancer, a topic that would otherwise remain closeted in a vault somewhere. My wife wants to know what the heck the big deal is?
It's my life's experience that anyone who would shred their offspring to a bloody pulp, and remain impenitant concerning the murder of their offspring, their conscience is seared and they have no qualms about lying or spinning things as may seem to be the most effective in getting them what they want or casting themselves in the best light in any given situation later on.
Would they lie? Bet on it!
So what? Another nitwit almost confirms your theory. That doesn't prove THOSE women were lying. Nor does it even prove it's a legitimate study.
The minute a woman gets the dreaded breast cancer, according to you and a few other imbeciles we're supposed to assume she's had a legal procedure YOU happen to disagree with....
Neither you or the Congressman have the knowledge or the right to assume these women or any woman with breast cancer is lying about having an abortion.
BTW, if the denial of abortions is so strong, how did a legitimate study conclude that women who've had abortions also contracted breast cancer?
Charm school graduate?
Would you care to share your vast medical experience with the group which qualifies you to discount over 40 years of medical research by scientists around the world producing 28 studies (last count) proving the link between abortion and breast cancer? Those of us with a medical background are anxiously awaiting your resume.
I saw a quote from one woman, who claimed to speak for the entire group.
And now that group represents most of his constituents?
We'll see about that when he's re-elected, won't we?
Sucking the brains out of a human baby is murder and ROE V WADE should be overturned. Pro-Life and proud of it!
How much more do they want? It is already funded at a rate greater than 600% over Prostate cancer yet the death rates are similar.Oh, I forgot, woman and children first and F&^K the men.
But why would anyone want to hear a congressman talk on medical / scientific issues?
Regards, Ivan
(and moving from the other thread)
Shoving abortion in their faces is likely to make them vote against Hostettler. He's an ass for not having any manners.
The "let's not offend anyone by talking about abortion and just hope abortion goes away on its own" tactic has been tried and it failed. This congressman made the courageous decision to say what needed to be said rather than merely say what his audience wanted to hear. It was his call and he chose principle over votes and I applaud him for it. What you call manners I call cowardice.
Are you kidding? Blocking abortion clinic entrances while yelling "murderers", waving pictures of fetuses in the faces of grade school children are what have been tried, and they've failed miserably. Now we've got congressmen subtly implying God-knows-what to a bunch of breast cancer survivors and NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM had ever had an abortion!
I'm as pro-life as anyone on this board, but this kind of proselytizing is why pro-lifers are viewed as kooks.
And, as you know, nobody listens to a kook.
I disagree. I never cared about abortion either way until I saw some of those "pictures of fetuses" and found out what abortion really is. Sometimes the best cure for ignorance is being confronted with reality.
Now we've got congressmen subtly implying God-knows-what to a bunch of breast cancer survivors and NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM had ever had an abortion!
The issue is how breast cancer research funds should be allocated. This is a perfectly acceptable topic for a congressman to discuss with anyone advocating federal funding for breast cancer research.
I'm as pro-life as anyone on this board...
You sure don't sound it.
...but this kind of proselytizing is why pro-lifers are viewed a kooks.
I don't view pro-lifers as kooks, but it sounds like you do.
And, as you know, nobody listens to a kook.
Oh, I don't know about that. After all, we're all listening to you. ;-)
Gruesome topics and misplaced modifiers make odd bedfollows.
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