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by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorOctober 2, 2007Seattle, WA (LifeNews.com) -- Researchers at a cancer center in Seattle have confirmed what previous studies have shown: women who bear children have a reduced risk of developing breast cancer. They say fetal cells “transplanted” to the mother before birth are a source of this protective effect. That's something that abortion denies.Scientists at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center presented their results in the October 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.They studied a concept called fetal microchimerism, which is the ability of cells...

Dear Friends: I'd like to share with you my letter to the editor of the National Catholic Register addressing Patrick Novecosky's article (June 5-11, 2005) on the abortion-breast cancer research. Readers of our e-newsletter know that Novecosky's article last month discussed the publication of an eye-popping paper by Baruch College Professor Joel Brind.  Brind accused governmental agencies and others of using fraudulent research in an attempt to rub out the idea in the public mind that abortion is a risk factor for breast cancer. My letter to the editor could be entitled, "How governmental agencies and cancer fundraising businesses easily...

October was a little different, as pink ribbons seemed to be more abundant than pumpkins. It was National Breast Cancer Awareness Month again, and for the Breast Cancer establishment -- Komen Race for the Cure, the National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC), et al. -- it's almost like Christmas season is for Macy's and Target. That's when these organizations make their big pitch for donations, and that pitch is usually some variation of the following: "(1)We don't know what causes breast cancer, (2) most women who get breast cancer have no known risk factors for the disease and (3)there's no cure...

November 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The mainstream media have again almost totally ignored a new study published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons that found that abortion is the "best predictor of breast cancer" in eight European nations. One notable exception to this media black-out however is an article by Dennis Byrne of the Chicago Tribune, who wrote a commentary entitled, "Snubbing cancer study will only hurt women: Research showing link to abortion ignored by media." Read the article here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped1022byrne... Karen Malec of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer said: "The media's behavior is very problematic. When...

Susan G. Komen for the Cure awards 72 grants to Planned Parenthood in 2000-2005 period October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer detection, prevention, research and treatment are of the utmost importance due to the devastating impact that this disease has on women and their families. Pro-life citizens who are interested in fighting this deadly disease should be aware that one breast cancer organization, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, has a policy of offering financial support to abortion providing facilities. Here are the Komen-Planned Parenthood facts (followed by a list of alternative organizations): • Planned Parenthood is the...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A representative of a woman's group that educates people about the link between abortion and breast cancer says that news of a lowering the number of cancer deaths would be better if women had been told about the link. The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer says there would be fewer deaths to report.The organization points to a new report from the American Cancer Society that cancer deaths declined slightly in 2003 and 2004.But Karen Malec, the head of the Coalition, told LifeNews.com "There would be fewer cancer cases and deaths if women had been told the truth...

December 27, 2001 -- The world's first known abortion-breast cancer settlement has taken place in Australia. News of this settlement comes to light as Australian legislators in Tasmania voted in favor of expanding access to abortion for women. The plaintiff's attorney in the lawsuit, Charles Francis, Queen's Counsel, had cautioned the parliamentarians about the possibility of increased litigation against abortion providers which might occur as a result of expanding abortion rights. "In Victoria, civil claims for negligence from women suing their abortionists are becoming much more common. Doctors haven't warned them and about 10 per cent have serious psychological repercussions," ...

Whatever your personal, spiritual or scientific beliefs regarding abortion, you have the right to know the facts. Abortion-on-demand has been with us for over 30 years - far too long for most people to remember what the pro-abortion movement promised America in the years preceding Roe v. Wade. "Woman's Body, Woman's Right" - I want it because I want it - was only part of the sales package.  Two other claims were made. One was that, when every child was a "wanted" child, unhappy marriages, divorce, child abuse, spousal abuse and sundry other woes and dysfunctions would evanesce. The other...

Rochester, MN (LifeNews.com) -- The influential Mayo Clinic is advising women that there is no link between abortion and breast cancer -- a conclusion that flies in the face of numerous studies showing the link between the two. The advice comes in a response posted on Mayo's web site in reply to a question from a Wisconsin woman.  "There's no credible evidence of a link between induced abortion and breast cancer," Dr. Sandhya Pruthi wrote the woman on behalf of Mayo's web site.As proof, Mayo cites the National Cancer Institute, but the organization has come under fire as politically charged...

Two leading women's magazines are misleading readers about the connection between abortion and breast cancer, an activist group contends. Last month it was Glamour, said Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, "This month, it's Redbook, and it's Redbook's second attempt to erase the link from the public mind." Redbook's October issue includes an interview with Marissa Weiss, M.D., founder of the cancer fundraising business, breastcancer.org. Weiss said, "Two recent research reviews have found that abortion doesn't alter hormone levels in a way that could increase breast cancer risk, as some activists have claimed." Prof. Joel Brind of...

From: mail@abortionbreastcancer.com Date: November 29, 2004 11:26:02 AM MST To: "Leslie Hanks" Subject: ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES - "The Corruption of Science by Ideology" Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer Newsletter Dear Friends: An editor of a bioethics journal, Ethics and Medics, has written a scathing editorial criticizing the British journal Lancet in particular and the scientific community in general for allowing ideology to corrupt science. The editorial by Ed Furton, MA, Ph.D. follows an article by Associate Professor of Surgery Angela Lanfranchi, MD, FACS in Ethics and Medics last month. Lanfranchi identified serious flaws in a Lancet "collaborative review" of the...

Breast Cancer Walkers Uninformed about ABC LinkBreast Cancer Walkers Uninformed about ABC Link     10/25/2004By Mary E. Traeger, CWA of MO Media CoordinatorOctober is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and anti-cancer organizations are absorbed in sponsoring cancer walks, which involve hundreds . . ."While he was saying this a woman from the crowd called out, ‘Blest is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!'" (Luke 1:27)October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and anti-cancer organizations are absorbed in sponsoring cancer walks, which involve hundreds of thousands of participants in numerous cities walking to find a breast cancer cure. Corporations are...

The world just learned that "Catholic" actress Brooke Shields is the proud mother of a new baby girl. For a long time infertility problems made it impossible for her and her husband to conceive, and after many failed attempts to conceive naturally she resorted to the technological solution: in vitro fertilization (IVF). Now she is pictured on the covers of glamorous magazines with a smiling beautiful baby girl, but some have questioned her decision to use IVF. I am one of them. Was this star wrong to have a "test tube" baby? Yes. Dead wrong. While recognizing the pain of...

Dear Friends: Please note that my interview with Raymond Arroyo on Eternal Word Television Network's EWTN program, "The World Over," will not be aired on the originally scheduled date, Friday, January 16. The interview will instead be aired on these dates: Friday, January 30 - 8:00 p.m. Eastern Saturday, January 31 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern Sunday, February 1 - 5:00 p.m. Eastern Monday, February 2 - 10:00 a.m. Eastern Monday, February 2 - 11:00 p.m. Eastern Susan Gertz, Esq., executive director of Women's Injury Network, a group which helped to finance the legal expenses for the nation's first abortion-breast cancer...

IN FEBRUARY 2002, CHARNETTE Messe found something many women search for but hope never to find: a lump under her arm. The Groton, Conn., mother of a preschooler quickly consulted her doctor. But because Mrs. Messe was only 30, and had no immediate family history of breast cancer, the doctor at first said a mammogram was unnecessary. Mrs. Messe did not agree. In the past, she'd used Depo-Provera, a birth-control medication that elevates the risk of breast cancer. Also, at age 20, before marrying, she had had an abortion. "I knew about the abortion-breast cancer link," said Mrs. Messe. "I...

New Study Suggests Link Between Abortion and Breast Cancer Suppressed by Politics In the end, it may be trial lawyers who will force full disclosure WASHINGTON, August 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new study published in the Summer 2003 Issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (JP&S) has concluded that scientists, women's groups, and the media have consistently suppressed or ignored research that establishes a direct link between abortion and breast cancer for their own political purposes. Further, the study titled "The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link: How Politics Trumped Science and Informed Consent", found women considering abortion are...

Statement by Saundra Duffy My Mom died of cancer. Two of her sisters have died from cancer. Therefore, I am predisposed to cancer and, in fact, I have had two bouts with cancer. I am offended that Planned Parenthood, and some in the media, has criticized me because of my concern for women with breast cancer, even though I'm not dying of the disease myself at this very moment. I am offended that the abortion industry wants to keep women in the dark about the abortion breast-cancer link. Planned Parenthood obviously has a very low opinion of our ability to...

Over the last three decades, the abortion debate has been characterized as the clashing of rights: the human rights of the unborn on the one hand and the reproductive rights of women on the other. This decades-long rhetorical deadlock has left a good number of Americans—the great majority of whom understand that an individual human life is taken in each abortion— personally opposed, yet unwilling to "impose their beliefs" on anyone else. The popularity of this so-called pro-choice position is due, in large measure, to the success abortion advocates have had in convincing Americans that abortion is a necessary precondition...

While tens of thousands of anti-abortion activists converged on the National Mall yesterday to mourn the 30th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade abortion decision, one women's group finds hope in its three-year battle to raise awareness about the association between abortion and breast cancer. The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer applauds the recommendations made by the authors of a recent study examining a variety of physical and psychological consequences associated with abortion. Dr. John M. Thorpe, an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health, and his colleagues called for physicians to inform women about...

BEIJING (AFP) - Breast cancer kills nearly 40 percent more Chinese women than it did a decade ago and the disease is now targeting a younger age group, state media reported. A survey carried out by the Ministry of Health indicated that the fatality rate of breast cancer rose 38.7 percent for women living in urban areas and 39.1 percent for rural women between 1991 and 2000, China Daily reported. The report did not give detailed statistics but only stated that 3.53 out of every 100,000 Chinese women died from breast cancer from 1990 to 1992. Chinese women aged between...

The Science, Studies and Sociology  of the Abortion Breast Cancer Linkby Angela Lanfranchi, M.D.

  Enter your email address to receive news from LifeNews.com via email. Do you prefer to receive news daily or weekly? Daily WeeklyDo you favor or oppose abortion? Favor Oppose Click here to make a PayPal donation to LifeNews.com! British Researcher Says Abortion Increases U.K. Breast Cancer Rates Email this article Printer friendly page by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com Editor August 9, 2005Minneapolis, MN (LifeNews.com) -- British researcher Patrick Carroll plans a presentation at the Wednesday meeting of the American Statistical Association, the largest gathering of statisticians in North America. Carroll's research reveals abortion is the best predictor of three British breast cancer...

This is an expanded version of the testimony I provided to the Committee by phone. Dear Committee members: This is the first time that I have given public testimony regarding the fact of my abortions. It has taken me years to do so. BACKGROUND: I am a medical research analyst and a published member of the American Medical Writers Association. My work provides support for translational research goals in the basic sciences. I have partnered with the Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, The Department of Defense, The National Cancer Institute and other scientific institutions and organizations. As a researcher...

With receding interest in living individual lives of metaphysical and moral goodness has come increased interest in living physically healthy lives. An endless stream of scientific reports provide bases for an even larger stream of media reports about what is healthy and what is not. Many observers have commented on the obsession with health risks that seems pervasive in contemporary media and society. Yet, almost like unpersons in some Communist dystopia, some documented health risks do not receive media coverage or much attention from doctors, and have not penetrated the average American's psyche. Among these "unrisks" are those from abortion....

Abortion-Breast Cancer Cover-up to be Discussed at Association of American Physicians and Surgeons 60th Meeting 9/12/03 5:28:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Karen Malec of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, 877-803-0102 E-mail: response@abortionbreastcancer.com PALOS HEIGHTS, Ill., Sept. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer announced today that its president, Karen Malec, will speak about the government's cover-up of the abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link at the 60th Meeting of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) on Sept. 19. Her speech, "Perversion of Science by Politics: Case Study-Informed Consent," will take place at 11 a.m. at...

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer Criticizes Supreme Court's Refusal to Hear Lawsuit To: National Desk Contact: Karen Malec, Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, 1-877-803-0102, response@abortionbreastcancer.com WASHINGTON, DC, October 19, /Christian Wire Service/ -- The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer deplores the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to hear a false advertising lawsuit against Planned Parenthood. [1] Three plaintiffs in the case accused Planned Parenthood of making misleading representations concerning the safety of abortion and the evidence linking abortion with increased breast cancer risk. The state court dismissed the case on the basis of California's Anti-SLAPP statute (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation). The court inaccurately...

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...

From: The Pro-Life Infonet Carcinogens and the Abortion-Breast Cancer Link By Karen Malec [Pro-Life Infonet Note: Karen Malec is the president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer.] An official list of "known human carcinogens" released by the Department of Health and Human Services in December 2002 includes steroidal estrogens for the first time. The Report on Carcinogens states that steroidal estrogens are used in estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) and common abortifacient drugs. Both kinds of drugs have been widely utilized by American women. The federal report is available on the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences website. [1] While certain...

NCI Workshop on the abortion-breast cancer (ABC Link) a sham!! Just received this letter from Karen Malec, President of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer: The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) workshop on the abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link was a sham! Its stated purpose was to evaluate and debate the merits of the research. Instead, only one viewpoint was presented – that abortion doesn’t raise a woman’s risk. Dr. Leslie Bernstein assumed responsibility for making this argument, although the ABC link isn’t even the focus of her work. Dr. Joel Bring wasn’t invited to present his view that induced abortion raises breast...

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...

Self Magazine Accused of Bias on Abortion-Breast Cancer Link Chicago, IL -- The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer denounced Self Magazine for having published an article misrepresenting 45 years of research which implicate abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer. In an August 2002 article entitled, "Abortion and breast cancer: The truth on trial," Barry Yeoman attempted to persuade women that the abortion-breast cancer link is nothing more than a "controversial theory." Self Magazine, whose masthead claims it's the "founder of the pink ribbon," sells advertising space to pharmaceutical companies which manufacture abortifacients. "I'm not surprised that Self Magazine wants...