Dear Friends:

Brent Rooney, Research Director at the Vancouver-based Reduce Pre-term Risk Coalition, has offered his commentary on the recently published collaborative review of abortion-breast cancer research in the British journal Lancet last week.  He compared those findings with very different findings reported in an earlier review in the same journal less than two years ago.  That paper reported significant, risk-reducing benefits of childbearing and breast feeding.  The author, Valerie Beral, said that breast cancer rates could be reduced by more than half if women start having more children and breast feeding them longer.

Childbearing is the most effective way of reducing breast cancer risk because it's the only event that matures a woman's breast cells into cancer-resistant, milk-producing tissue.  That's why epidemiologists have found that the earlier a woman has a first full term pregnancy, the lower her lifetime risk is for the disease. There is universal agreement on this within the scientific community.

It's apparent that opponents of the abortion-breast cancer link are dishonest.  They can't bring themselves to admit that induced abortion causes women to delay their first full term pregnancies, have smaller families, lose the benefit of breast feeding and, in some cases, remain childless forever.  Nevertheless, it's unquestionable that abortion has dramatically changed women's childbearing patterns and resulted in an increase in breast cancer cases.

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer encourages abstinence before marriage.  However, if an unmarried woman should become pregnant, then she has the right to know about the considerable risk reduction that can be gained from an early first full term pregnancy.  The coalition does not encourage married women to postpone their first full term pregnancies, especially those who have family histories of breast cancer.

Spread the word and visit www.AbortionBreastCancer.com to save women's lives by making an on-line, tax-deductible donation.

Sincerely,
Karen Malec
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
www.AbortionBreastCancer.com


ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES

'Rival' Cancer Experts Clash in Medical Journal

By Brent Rooney, Research Director, Reduce Pre-term Risk Coalition

March 30, 2004

With headline splashes, women are being assured there is no link between prior elective abortions and breast cancer.  Lead author Valerie Beral informed Lancet readers about the results of her 'study of studies' of about 50 prior abortion/breast cancer studies.  In fact, Beral not only reassures women of no ABC (abortion-breast cancer) risk but hints that induced abortions may actually slightly reduce breast cancer risk.

Those with long memories may recall a Lancet study two years previous (2002).  This 2002 'study of studies' hailed childbirth and breastfeeding as major breast cancer risk reducers.  Now, the 'common sense public' realizes that women who have induced abortions of all pregnancies will have no childbirths and will do no breastfeeding.

The authors of the 2002 study reported that each childbirth reduced breast cancer risk by 7% and each one year of breastfeeding reduced breast cancer odds by an additional 4.3%.  E.G. If 'Alice' has two deliveries and breastfeeds each infant 18 months, she reduces her breast cancer risk by nearly 27%.

Who was the lead author of the 2002 Lancet article praising breastfeeding as a major breast cancer risk reducer?  By a very strange 'coincidence' it was Valerie Beral.  Now, it is not inconceivable that the lead authors of the two Lancet articles (2002 & 2004) are two different women, but with the same name.  Otherwise, Lancet has pulled off quite an "April fools' joke" on the public.

The cover-up of another important abortion risk, preterm births, will be much more difficult for 'hired gun' researchers to hide, since the evidence is so overwhelming.  (See <www.jpands.org/vol8no2/rooney.pdf>.) This is not to deny that the ABC evidence is indeed strong.

Those women who want to inform their daughters how to truly slash breast cancer risk, can read and act on the following:
<www.vcn.bc.ca/~whatsup/ESCAPE.html>.

For Informed Medical Consent,
Brent Rooney
Reduce Preterm Risk Coalition
stopcancer@yahoo.com

Publishing credits:

Induced Abortion and Risk of Later Premature Births [co-author Dr. Byron C. Calhoun] Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons  2003;8(2):46-49   URL:
<www.jpands.org/vol8no2/rooney.pdf>

Elective Surgery boosts Cerebral Palsy risk. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology  2001;96(2):239-240

Delayed birth equals more cancers and preterm births. Western Journal of Medicine. 2001;174:385-386

Low Birth Weight: Reducing the Risk (Birthing mag., Fall 1998)

Having an induced abortion increases risk in future pregnancies. British Medical Journal 2001;322:430

Racism, Poverty, Abortion, and Other Reproductive Outcomes. Epidemiology 2000;11:740-741

Is elective induced abortion healthy for women and their future newborn? Ars Medica [Spanish language] 2002;4(#6):95-111
<http://escuela.med.puc.cl/publ/ArsMedica/ArsMedica6/Art09.html>

An Early First Birth for Breast Cancer Prevention (ALIVE mag., April 1997)

No Breast Cancer for My Daughter - How to Reduce the Risk, ALIVE magazine, July/August 1995) [ALIVE: highest circulation health mag. in Canada] Escape from Breast Cancer  - (published on the world wide web:
<www.vcn.bc.ca/~whatsup/ESCAPE.html>)

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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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION;

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
www.AbortionBreastCancer.com

Breast Cancer Prevention Institute
www.BCPInstitute.org

Polycarp Research Institute
www.Polycarp.org