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To add to your comments, The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons really is not a medical journal at all. It’s more political than anything else. IF someone happened to come up with THE definitive study showing abortion has nothing to do with breast cancer, you can be assured you’d never see it in this “journal.”

And you would also never see that on LifeSiteNews.com. While their hearts may be in the right place they have a tendency to play fast and loose with the facts.

LifeSiteNews recently went after the Gardasil vaccine and loudly proclaimed: Deaths Associated with HPV Vaccine Start Rolling In, Over 3500 Adverse Affects Reported

Posted here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899816/posts

But when I read the actual FDA reports cited on the link, there were 3 deaths reported in young women who received the Gardasil vaccine and final autopsies had not yet been performed at the time the deaths were first reported to the FDA but in at least 2 of the 3 deaths, it was apparent to me that the cause of death could be attributed to other causes completely unrelated to the vaccine but had to be reported to the FDA anyway under the current FDA rules. And 3 to 7 deaths, even if Gardasil was a contributing factor, given the number vaccines given, it is a rather low risk factor. Statistically speaking, aspirin causes more deaths annually than Gardasil.

As for the averse affects, most were what you would expect with any type of vaccination: soreness, swelling, slight fever and the cases of fainting is most likely attributable to emotional fears and needle phobias but again the FDA mandates that every adverse effect has to be reported.

I donate blood on a regular basis and I’ve seen a few burly men nearly pass out because of their fear of needles. That could be called an adverse reaction but that doesn’t mean that donating blood is harmful or dangerous.

Given the high risk of a woman contracting HPV from a male partner given the number of males infected, even if she is celibate until marriage, unless her husband can absolutely guarantee that he was equally celibate, she is at a greater risk of HPV and developing cervical cancer than she is of an adverse affect from the vaccine. For that reason alone, if I had a daughter, I would seriously consider having her get the vaccine. I do think however that the vaccine should not be mandated by the state and should be left up to informed parents to decide. And a good parent would not allow her daughter to falsely think that the vaccine to protect her from HPV, gives her free license to be promiscuous – another false claim made by LifeSiteNews.

LifeSiteNews also recently proclaimed that a study proved that the Pill causes an increased risk of breast cancer based on only one of the findings of that study. They completely ignored the other parts of the study that the Pill could actually protect women from other types of cancer.

LifeSiteNews has an agenda, one that I don’t necessarily disagree with on all points but they loose all credibility with me when they cherry pick some parts of medical studies to support their claims and ignore other parts of the same studies that disprove their point of view. To me, LifeSiteNews is to women’s health studies as Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” is to serious environmental studies.

The skewing of real scientific research data and reactionary and hysterical headlines does the Pro-Life cause more harm that good.