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Coalition Mourns Deaths of Thousands Due to Abortion-Induced Breast Cancer on 28th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

January 18, 2001

An international women's organization whose objective is to prevent breast cancer caused by induced abortion urged members of the media to inform women that 27 out of 34 studies worldwide published since 1957 have linked induced abortion with breast cancer.

 "More than two dozen studies link this elective procedure with a deadly disease, and 13 out of 14 American studies report increased risk," said Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer.  "Women have the right to know that these peer reviewed studies (most of which were completed by abortion supporters) exist.  The information is material to the decision whether to choose an abortion.  It is especially urgent that our teenagers hear this message because they are at such great risk, particularly those who have a family history of the disease."

 "Approximately 175,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year," said Mrs. Malec.  "More than 43,000 women die from this disease each year.  Rep. Dave Weldon, M.D. rightly called abortion a 'health care time-bomb' in his August 24, 1999 letter to his colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives.  Dr. Joel Brind, president of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, has conservatively estimated that there are an additional 5,000 to 8,000 cases of breast cancer diagnosed each year because of previous abortions and that by the year 2020 there will be an additional 40,000 to 50,000 cases of breast cancer diagnosed yearly."

In 1995 the former director of the National Institutes of Health, Bernadine Healy, M.D. cautioned that, "Some 1.5 million women undergo abortion in this country each year; if the breast cancer connection is valid, we will be seeing a continuous rise in breast cancer in this country for many years into the future."

 "We mourn the loss of thousands of women who have died of abortion-induced breast cancer since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.  Abortion is an overwhelmingly elective surgical procedure.  Should women be expected to unknowingly place their lives at risk in order to achieve an elective outcome?" asked Mrs. Malec.