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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...