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Baseball Season Opens With New Billboard About Abortion-Breast Cancer Link

April 12, 2001

The Colorado Springs Sky Sox open their home season at Sky Sox Stadium on Friday, April 13, 2001 with a new billboard concerning the abortion-breast cancer link.  The billboard advertises the web address for an international women's organization, the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer.  The web address for the women's group is: <www.AbortionBreastCancer.com>.

Mrs. Karen Malec, the president of the women's group, said "Twenty-seven of 35 studies published worldwide since 1957 have implicated abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.  We are alarmed that there are 44 years of research linking this optional surgical procedure with breast cancer, but women still have not been included in this discussion about their health care.  It is indefensible that this information has been censored from women.  Women have the right to know about the existence of this research, and many will learn about it for the first time when they visit the baseball park this season."

 "The United Kingdom's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released guidelines to its abortion providers last
year saying that the abortion-breast cancer research 'could not be disregarded.'  Does American organized medicine, then, have the right to disregard the research?" said Mrs. Malec, a cancer survivor herself.  [Evidence-based Guideline #7 (2000) RCOG Press, pp. 29-30]

Abortion causes breast cancer in two ways.  The first way is acknowledged by all medical experts and has to do with the effect of postponing first full term pregnancy (FFTP).  The later a woman has her (FFTP), the greater her risk for breast cancer is.  "When a woman procures an abortion, she foregoes the protective effect of an earlier FFTP," commented Mrs. Malec.  "Sadly, women aren't even being given this basic information."

The second way that abortion causes breast cancer has been studied by scientists for 44 years.  Starting early in pregnancy, estrogen levels rise significantly (2,000% by the end of the first trimester), causing a dramatic multiplication of both normal and abnormal breast cells.  The effect of this overexposure to estrogen is only neutralized in the third trimester when a second process called differentiation shuts off the cell multiplication process and shapes the breast cells into milk-producing tissue. 

Scientists know that estrogen is a secondary carcinogen, a tumor promoter.  Earlier this year, estrogen replacement therapy (ERT), which is taken by women after menopause, was added to the nation's list of known carcinogens.  ERT is largely the same chemical form of estrogen naturally created by a woman's ovaries in pregnancy.  A majority of the known risk factors for breast cancer are associated with an overexposure to estrogen.   

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women's organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.