NYT: Family Planning Farce (more from "All the Lies fit to Print/Abortion is Joyful" gang)

NY Times ^ | 11-24-06 | Editorial

[cgk]

Family Planning Farce

Published: November 24, 2006

It sounds like a late-night parody of President Bush’s bad habit of filling key posts with extreme ideologues and incompetents. To head family planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services, Mr. Bush has tapped Eric Keroack, a doctor affiliated with a group vehemently opposed to birth control and someone nationally known for his wacky theory about reproductive health.

Before his appointment, Dr. Keroack served as the medical director of A Woman’s Concern, a network of pregnancy counseling clinics across Massachusetts whose method of trying to dissuade women from having an abortion includes spreading the scary and medically inaccurate myth that having an abortion steeply increases the risk of breast cancer.

[cgk]

[Petronski]

Moloch never sleeps, his thirst insatiable.

[cgk]

Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!

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[Northern Yankee]

Preserving life is considered "wacky" to these folks?

It shows just how out of touch they have become. Unreal!

[Tax-chick]

"Wacky theory about reproductive health"? They must mean the theory that reproduction is healthy!

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

"liberalism" is an ideology of nothingness, worthlessness, despair and "Nothing is worth anything" so "why bother living".
This is sometimes known as nihilism.

[Northern Yankee]

Darn that reproduction....

[wodinoneeye]

Too bad the NYT owners family didnt 'plan' a little harder,
then the world would have alot less lies/distortion/propaganda in it.

[TBP]

Abortion is joyful just like being dehydrated to death is.

[XR7]

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[Salvation]

Great cartoon.

[Thommas]

..the scary and medically inaccurate myth that having an abortion steeply increases the risk of breast cancer.

So, you sit down with ten women with breast cancer and, after doing your best to convince them of your sincerity and compassion, ask them if they ever had an abortion. This is not a "scientific" or "medical" approach, mind you. Nonetheless, the responses are in the majority to the affirmative, with even the occasional answer that several miscarriages occurred prior to a successful pregnancy.

Anecdotal and empirical evidence is not scientific, but when will a scientific and medically sound study be conducted with a large number of women, not just those cherry-picked by planned parenthood?

[the invisib1e hand]

they're getting desparate, upping the ad budget because of slumping or soon to be slumpling demand.

There are enough women who have had abortions and regret it that the myth of the joys of abortion is dying a sure and speedy death.

Moloch may never sleep, but he also sees what's coming.

[Elsiejay]

I'm sure you know that the research modality you so lightly, and rightly, dismiss has not been the basis for the finding of a link between abortion, in particular abortion of the first child conceived, and increased susceptibility to later contracting breast cancer.
No knowledgeable person has claimed that abortion causes breast cancer, only that aborting a baby, especially the first conceived, markedly increases breast cancer susceptibility. The physiological mechanism postulated for the cause and effect (increased susceptibility) relationship makes sense. Any interested person can easily find documentation, for example by Googling Dr. Joel Brind, or simply "abortion breast cancer linkage."

[Tax-chick]

I do say that once in a while ...

[retMD]

Medical articles found by searching on "abortion" and "Breast cancer" on PubMed:

no linkage "Women who had had an abortion were not at increased risk of cancer."

no increase, may decrease risk in those with hereditary predisposition "Carrying a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation is not a risk factor for spontaneous abortions and spontaneous abortions do not appear to influence the risk of breast cancer in carriers of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. However, having two or more therapeutic abortions may be associated with a lowered risk of breast cancer among BRCA2 carriers."

no linkage: "Overall, the findings provide further unbiased evidence of the lack of an adverse effect of induced abortion on breast cancer risk."

I did google "Abortion breast cancer linkage" and most of the assertions seem based on old studies with small numbers. Much of Dr Brind's argument in the paper I read seems based on the rise of breast cancer incidence at the same time abortion became legal and more prevalent. He doesn't explore, or even mention, other factors that might affect incidence, such as changes in environmental factors, diet, etc.

[Northern Yankee]

Too funny!

I often see some children that are just horrible. I'll remark to those around me,"That's the reason some animals eat their young!"

Gets em laughing everytime.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Nancee]

And another Pro-Life---Pro-Baby ping!

Nancee

[juliej]

does the New York Crimes actually believe that abortion is good for women????? Most of the women I know who had abortions have had nightmares for years. Crisis pregnancy centers offer life affirming alternatives. If these women don't want to undergo "crisis pregnancies" they know what they have to do: stop having sex with irresponsible men.