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Freeper Gets Bill From Planned Parenthood for $77,000!!!
This came in the U.S. Mail | November 27, 2002 | Saundra Duffy

Posted on 11/27/2002 2:04:01 PM PST by Saundra Duffy

How would you like to go to your mail box and receive a legal document that says you owe Planned Parenthood $77,000? As some of you may recall, three of us plaintiffs sued Planned Parenthood with the hope we could force them to tell the truth about the link between abortion and breast cancer. Go to www.AbortionBreastCancer.com for more info about the ABC Link. The press release announcing the lawsuit is below. Legal expertise for our case was provided by Thomas More Law Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The first round was lost by us and the Judge ordered us three poor women to pay PP legal fees, hence this disgusting "bill" from Planned Parenthood. Good news is that our attorneys are appealing. That's where we are now. Here's the news release about the lawsuit:

Women's Group Lauds Abortion-Breast Cancer Suit Against Planned Parenthood August 17, 2001

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer announced that a lawsuit was filed yesterday in a San Diego court by three California women against Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliate, Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties. The suit accuses Planned Parenthood of having mislead women about the safety of abortion. Research published over nearly a half of a century has linked the procedure with increased breast cancer risk. The incidence of breast cancer among American women has climbed 40% in the last quarter of a century since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. The incidence of all other cancers has declined in the U.S. over the same period.

The plaintiffs, Agnes Bernardo of Chula Vista, Pamela Colip of Loma Linda, and Sandra Duffy-Hawkins of Sacramento, are not demanding monetary damages, but they are demanding Planned Parenthood to provide women with accurate information about the overwhelming evidence that abortion raises breast cancer risk. The plaintiffs are represented by the Thomas More Law Center located in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

A 1996 review and meta-analysis of the studies found that induced abortion raises a woman’s breast cancer risk by 30%. The leading author of that paper written in collaboration with scientists from Penn State College of Medicine, Professor Joel Brind of Baruch College of the City University of New York, has written extensively about an ongoing effort by scientists to cover-up the research. [Brind et al. (1996) J Epidemiol Community Health 50:481-96]

In the only study specifically commissioned by the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Janet Daling and her colleagues at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center reported 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.” [Daling et al. (1994) J Natl Cancer Inst 86:1584-92]

The only statistically significant prospective study (one based on medical records, not interviews and which, therefore, rules out any possibility of recall bias) was conducted in New York and found a 90% increased risk. [Howe et al. (1989) Int J Epidemiol 18:300-4]

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer provides a wealth of information about the research, public policy and women’s legal rights at www.abortionbreastcancer.com.

Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, reported that “Twenty-eight out of 37 studies published since 1957 have associated this elective surgical procedure with breast cancer. We applaud the efforts of the Thomas More Law Center to assist women. Women have a right to make fully informed decisions concerning their own health. If a women are denied crucial information about the risks of a procedure, can it really be said that a choice ever belonged to them? Accurate information about the research has been censored by Planned Parenthood and its supporters since abortion was legalized in the U.S. nearly three decades ago. It was censored by the same people who ardently professed that they cared about women’s health. Planned Parenthood’s greed will cost women their lives and devastate families. This is a travesty of justice.”

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: abclink; abortion; breastcancer; plannedparenthood
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To: Saundra Duffy
OMG-He archived it!

Go to the site, check archives for 11/25/2002

Terri Shiavo is a woman who a Floriduh judge has ordered, for the second time, her feeding tube to be removed on 1/03/03.Her husband is sick and tired of her handicapped condition (which he maliciously engineered) and against the wishes of her family, has squandered close to $700,000.00 in order to kill her legally through the courts.

His lawyer, and the judge, are proponents of "right to die" (euthanasia) and have decided to make Terri their poster child for ridding the world of inconveniant people.

If you have trouble on Glenn's site, www.terrisfight.org is the long version.

121 posted on 11/27/2002 6:27:31 PM PST by sarasmom
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To: Saundra Duffy
Look, you had the ba*ls to try to do something for two causes that need all the help they can get. Don't keep turning down help, Thats what good people are all about, and even the Chancellors of the world have some goodness in them.


YOU MAKE SURE YOU KEEP US POSTED ON THIS!!!!


We'll want to help. I'm going to let some other folks I know in on this, they may or maynot be freepers, but they'll want to help. Several are lawyers, others in the pro-life movement and still others looking for a cure for breast cancer. We'll get you some heavy hitters as well.
122 posted on 11/27/2002 6:59:56 PM PST by uncbuck
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To: Saundra Duffy
You will be in my prayers. I prayed extra hard before the election that God would break the Dem Party Vote-Rig machine. I will pray now that God will break Planned Parenthood so thoroughly, that Beast will never rise again!

Prayer Warrior Alert!

123 posted on 11/27/2002 7:05:53 PM PST by pray4liberty
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To: Saundra Duffy
WHY????

Sucks to be right, before the rest of the world, doesn't it?

Cheers, you are not alone.
124 posted on 11/27/2002 7:08:05 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Poohbah
hey kid--ever heard of judicial indiscretion?
125 posted on 11/27/2002 7:09:53 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: BibChr; Chancellor Palpatine
Wow. You're really a card-carrying, ankle-biting, spittle-flecked, wild-eyed, lifetime-membership jerk, aren't you?

I agree, I've been reading some of this schmucks past post. He comes off as a real A-hole

126 posted on 11/27/2002 7:32:17 PM PST by Tempest
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To: another cricket
Count me in!!!
127 posted on 11/27/2002 8:30:30 PM PST by Terridan
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To: gitmo
Ouch! Keep us informed about your appeal.

Yes, please do.

128 posted on 11/27/2002 8:44:46 PM PST by BJungNan
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To: Saundra Duffy
I don't know if the suit is frivilous or not as I don't know anything about it. I do know that the courts whack you for court cost and attorney fees if a case is thrown out because the court considers it frivilous.

In light of the previous discussions here about lawsuit abuse I couldn't help but notice the irony that one person's cause is another's claim of lawsuit abuse.

129 posted on 11/27/2002 9:19:42 PM PST by DaGman
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To: Tempest
Right. At what age are we supposed to learn that the bare fact that we imagine we have something in our mouth doesn't necessarily mean we should say it? Seven? Four??

Dan

131 posted on 11/27/2002 10:40:34 PM PST by BibChr
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To: Saundra Duffy
Maybe it's a moot point because of the appeal.

Unless an appellate bond has been posted, Planned Parenthood can enforce the $77,000 judgment while the case is being appealed. Do you have a checking account or other bank accounts? If so, they can quite easily walk right down to your bank and have the account emptied out. Now may well be the time to stuff your money under the matress.

132 posted on 11/28/2002 12:05:15 AM PST by ambrose
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To: Saundra Duffy
You need to give us some more information about this case. This $77,000 thing is somewhat odd since attorneys' fees are generally only recoverable pursuant to contractual terms... and pursuant to statute, under limited circumstances. Obviously there was no contract here, and I don't see what statute could apply.

The only thing left is that you were hit for maintaining a frivolous lawsuit. But even there, the opposing attorneys are required to send you a letter first documenting why your position is frivolous and then give you a 30 day "safe harbor" period in which to drop your case. Did you ever get such a letter? Maybe your lawyer did, but he never bothered to inform you of it. If so, ask him for the name of his malpractice carrier.
133 posted on 11/28/2002 12:14:26 AM PST by ambrose
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To: Saundra Duffy
Bumpity bump!
134 posted on 11/28/2002 12:16:17 AM PST by Salvation
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To: Saundra Duffy
Perhaps we can convince a certain lobbying organization I know to get behind you on this. Can I have our Health committee contact you?
135 posted on 11/28/2002 12:24:21 AM PST by farmfriend
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To: DrinkDietCoke
You just admitted that you believe in giving women a choice to do with their bodies.

You are misconstruing Saundra's remarks as well as the intent of those remarks.
She was merely pointing out the hypocrisy of California's laws.

137 posted on 11/28/2002 2:58:05 AM PST by jla
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To: Saundra Duffy
Keep it updated. If you loose the appeal, I'm in for 20
138 posted on 11/28/2002 3:20:27 AM PST by wewillnotfail
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To: DaGman
I don't know if the suit is frivilous or not as I don't know anything about it. I do know that the courts whack you for court cost and attorney fees if a case is thrown out because the court considers it frivilous.

Here's the difference: Saundra and her partners were trying to make sure that Planned Parenthood told all the facts about abortion in its materials -- including the breast cancer link -- so that the women they counsel are FULLY informed about all the risks involved.

Some Shylock in New York, on the other hand, is blaming McDonald's for his obese teen clients' unhealthy girth when court papers show that it was the fat kids' parents who took them to Mickey D's.


139 posted on 11/28/2002 3:33:18 AM PST by L.N. Smithee
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To: ambrose; Saundra Duffy
Saundra can verify, but I believe the plaintiffs were assessed the fees because the judge ruled it was a frivilous lawsuit. And yes, she should check the attorney's malpractice insurance to see if their insurance will cover this--if they carry malpractice insurance. Not all attorneys do.

From this point, beyond the lien, they can do debtor's examinations, subpoena bank records and exercise a wide variety of creditor's enforcement actions.

140 posted on 11/28/2002 3:37:16 AM PST by Catspaw
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