Dear Friends:

Last week, a new study in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (www.jpands.org) showed that abortion is the "best predictor" for breast cancer.  Why haven't cancer fundraising groups announced the news on their websites?  Their silence speaks loudly of an agenda.

We are releasing a list of guidelines that will help you identify cancer groups you can support.

Sincerely,
Karen Malec
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES

"CHRISTMAS IN OCTOBER: Breast Cancer Awareness Month"
by Karen Malec
President, Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

"October is to breast cancer groups as Christmas is to retailers," (Professor Joel Brind, president of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute)

'Tis the season to be jolly!

October is the season for wearing pink ribbons and buying a multitude of pink products.   Only in America could a deadly disease be so heavily commercialized!

During this month, we are faced with a barrage of news articles and television programs that purport to tell us what the facts are concerning breast cancer.

Since the 1980s when most breast cancer organizations were founded, cancer patients and others have helped the breast cancer fundraising industry to raise billions of dollars "to find a cure" for breast cancer.  But, women have been largely kept in the dark about breast cancer prevention.

A story in the Chicago Tribune on October 1 entitled, "Fallacies on breast cancer persist: survey finds many women misinformed," features an interview with Fran Visco, president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition.  It illustrates how thoroughly breast cancer organizations have misled Americans about the disease through the use of a variety of marketing strategies and fear tactics.

For these reasons, the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is offering a list of guidelines to assist the public in recognizing cancer organizations that are truly serving women.  Here is a list of considerations when deciding what organizations to support.

FIRST, DO THE ORGANIZATION'S LEADERS TELL WOMEN THE TRUTH THAT ABORTION RAISES BREAST CANCER RISK?

Breast cancer groups violate their missions to "eradicate breast cancer" when they withhold life-saving information about risk factors for the disease.  Can it be said that such an organization is deserving of financial support?

A study by Patrick Carroll published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (www.jpands.org) on October 2, 2007 demonstrated that abortion is the "best predictor of breast cancer." 

Has the breast cancer organization that you support informed women about Carroll's research?  Silence speaks loudly of an agenda and an indifference to the suffering that breast cancer causes women.

SECOND, DO THE ORGANIZATION'S LEADERS SUGGEST OR IMPLY THERE IS "NO CURE" FOR THE DISEASE?

If so, they are using fear as a marketing strategy.  Most women do not die of breast cancer. About 80% of all breast cancers are already being cured.  The mortality rate has been drifting downwards in recent years.

THIRD, DO THE ORGANIZATION'S LEADERS CLAIM THAT MOST WOMEN DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER HAVE NO KNOWN RISK FACTOR FOR THE DISEASE?

A number of organizations use this marketing technique.  Most American women have used the birth control pill in the combined form (estrogen plus progestin), and many have used combined hormone replacement therapy.

The World Health Organization and the National Cancer Institute classify combined (estrogen plus progestin) oral contraceptives and combined hormone replacement therapy as a carcinogen.  Last year, the journals, Mayo Clinic Proceedings and the New England Journal of Medicine, reviewed the studies dating from the 1980s on oral contraceptives and breast cancer risk.  They found risk increases for women who use these drugs.  [Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2006;81(10):1290-1302. New Engl J Med 2006;354:270-82]

FOURTH, DO THE ORGANIZATION'S OFFICIALS TELL WOMEN, "WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO PREVENT BREAST CANCER," OR "THERE IS VERY LITTLE YOU CAN DO TO PREVENT BREAST CANCER"?   

As a matter of fact, 5% to 10% of all breast cancers are hereditary, and most breast cancers are preventable. 

Overexposure to the hormone estrogen is associated with most of the risk factors for breast cancer.  Women who want to reduce their risk for the disease should avoid: alcohol, hormonal contraceptives, combined hormone replacement therapy, induced abortion, childlessness, late first full term pregnancy (age 24 or older), postmenopausal obesity, radiation, and cigarette smoking.  Many of these risk factors involve estrogen overexposure.  The worst time in a woman's life to be exposed to a carcinogen is before the birth of a first child when the breast lobules consist almost entirely of cancer-vulnerable Type 1 and 2 lobules. 

To reduce breast cancer risk, women should exercise; breastfeed their babies longer; eat cruciferous vegetables; have an early first full term pregnancy before age 24 (the best way to prevent the disease); have a larger family; and eat omega-3 fatty acids.

FIFTH, DOES THE ORGANIZATION GIVE FUNDS TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD?  WERE ITS LEADERS PREVIOUSLY ASSOCIATED WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD OR SOME OTHER ABORTION ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION?

If so, a serious conflict of interest exists.  The breast cancer group, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Planned Parenthood.  You can find a list of Komen's grants by doing a search on Komen's website using the term, "Planned Parenthood."  See
http://cms.komen.org/Komen/GrantsProgram/Community-BasedGrants/FindAGrant/index.htm

Although Komen claims that the funds it has given to Planned Parenthood are intended for breast cancer screenings, Planned Parenthood's annual reports for the years 2000-2005 reveal that breast cancer screenings have declined by nearly 15%, while abortions have increased by nearly 23%. Money is fungible and can be moved easily from one side of a business to another.

Nancy Goodman Brinker, Komen's founder and former U.S. ambassador to Hungary, sat on Planned Parenthood's advisory board in North Texas five years ago.

Cynthia Pearson, formerly a Colorado organizer for NARAL Pro-Choice America and currently the executive director of the National Women's Health Network, sits on the National Breast Cancer Coalition's board of directors.

Barbara Brenner, Breast Cancer Action's leader, formerly sat on the American Civil Liberties Union's board.  The ACLU's abortion advocacy is well known in the courts.

If tobacco executives and asbestos manufacturers were board members at the American Lung Association, donors would be outraged and would question their credibility.

SIXTH, DO THE ORGANIZATION'S LEADERS CLAIM THAT THE BIGGEST RISK FACTORS FOR BREAST CANCER ARE "BEING A FEMALE AND GETTING OLDER? 

If being a female and getting older are the biggest risk factors for breast cancer, then why does the United States have a breast cancer rate that is five times greater than that of India, Japan and China? 

While it is true that these countries (like the U.S.) make abortion legally accessible, it is also true that the women in those countries have a much lower background risk for breast cancer than do American women.  By exposing American women to even a small increase in risk of 30% through abortion, that means thousands more women will develop breast cancer than would have otherwise developed it.

SEVENTH, DOES THE ORGANIZATION ACCEPT DONATIONS FROM PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES (i.e. manufacturers of hormonal drugs or cancer treatment drugs)? 

This, too, would create a conflict of interest for a cancer group.

EIGHTH, DOES THE CANCER ORGANIZATION SUPPORT EXPERIMENTS ON HUMAN EMBRYOS?

When deciding whether to donate to a particular cancer organization, many people would want to know whether the organization either gives grants to researchers conducting experiments on human embryos or is otherwise supportive of this type of research.

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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.

Tax-deductible, credit card donations can be made at http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com. Donations can be mailed to: the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, P.O. Box 957133, Hoffman Estates, IL 60195. The IRS recognizes the coalition as a 501(c)3 organization.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com

Breast Cancer Prevention Institute
http://www.BCPInstitute.org

Polycarp Research Institute
http://www.polycarp.org