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Dear Friends:
Some liberal journalists excel at censoring facts not to their liking. As Chicago commentator Tom Roeser likes to say, they are "impervious to correction."
The Arkansas Times is a case in point. In our "Abortion-Breast Cancer News Headlines" below, you will find a letter to the editors of that newspaper which, to this day, remains unpublished.
Last week, the Arkansas Times published an article that provides free public relations for the abortion industry and its allies at Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The newspaper's reporter, Leslie Newell Peacock, omitted several inconvenient facts in her article.
First, Komen's national office authorizes many of its state affiliates to give funds to Planned Parenthood. Although the Arkansas state affiliate does not give funds to the abortion provider, at least 25% of the funds raised in Arkansas go to the national office. Komen's national office will continue to authorize its state affiliates to give funds to Planned Parenthood as long as its donors look the other way.
Second, even the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) - like all cancer experts - admits that the very best way to prevent breast cancer is to have an early first full term pregnancy (before age 24), a larger family and breastfeed for more months during one's reproductive years. Therefore, even a non-medically trained journalist can recognize two undeniable facts:
1) Many more women would avoid breast cancer altogether if they would carry their pregnancies to term instead of choosing to abort; and
2) The NCI contradicts itself by denying that abortion is linked to increased breast cancer risk.
Finally, Peacock's article discusses an unfortunate decision on the part of an administrator at the Diocese of Little Rock (Rev. Gaston Hebert) concerning the abortion-breast cancer link and the Komen-Planned Parenthood relationship. Peacock omitted the fact that eight medical organizations recognize this link, including the National Catholic Bioethics Center and the Catholic Medical Association.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Respect Life Program for 2007-2008 acknowledged the abortion-breast cancer link in this article:
"Abortion and breast cancer: The link that won't go away" By Angela Lanfranchi, MD http://www.usccb.org/prolife/programs/rlp/Lanfranchi.pdf
Susan Wills of the USCCB wrote an article for the National Catholic Register last year charging the National Cancer Institute and other breast cancer fundraising businesses with "keeping women in the dark about two risk factors for breast cancer: induced abortion and hormonal contraception." See:
"Fully Aware Breast Cancer Organizations Promote Only 'Selective Awareness'" By Susan E. Wills National Catholic Register October 28 - November 3, 2007 Issue http://ncregister.com/site/article/6407/
The state of journalism in the U.S. has become very sorry indeed when journalists not only look approvingly upon a government cover-up that puts the lives of millions of women around the world at risk, but also behave like propagandists for the government.
Read the facts below that the Arkansas Times doesn't want you to have.
Sincerely, Karen Malec Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES
Letter to editor Arkansas Times
Re: "Abortion-cancer link disputed: UAMS oncologists says evidence is to the contrary," By Leslie Newell Peacock, March 13, 2008. Available at: http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=043fbedf-cb64-4d8f-9c25-c5ba0166d67e
Dear editor:
If Leslie Newell Peacock would read the National Cancer Institute's workshop report, she would learn that the agency acknowledged one of three risks linking abortion with breast cancer. Scientists agree that early first birth, increased childbearing and breastfeeding significantly reduce risk. The agency contradicts itself by denying an abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link.
A first full term pregnancy provides the only means for maturing 85% of the breast lobules into cancer-resistant tissue.
Scientists only debate one risk - the independent link. It means abortion leaves women with more places for cancers to start. Medical researcher Brent Rooney explained:
"Suppose you ask for an estimate of the cost to fix your car, but you're quoted the cost of parts only (labor excluded)....The vast majority of ABC studies over the last 20 years exclude one of two risks - the loss of protection women receive from childbearing. In other words, the risk figure quoted is not the total breast cancer risk. Well-informed researchers know this, but many doctors and the public do not. Specifically, the 30% higher breast cancer risk reported by Joel Brind (and colleagues) excludes the loss of the protective effect. So, the true breast cancer risk is more accurately put at (approximately) 40% to 50% if both risks are included."
The Institute of Medicine lists abortion as a risk factor for premature birth. Research shows that premature births before 32 weeks gestation more than doubles the mother's breast cancer risk - an event biologically the same as having an abortion.
As for the argument that consensus science (the majority view) is always right, readers would do well to remember that most doctors opposed Dr. Ignaz Semmelweiss' recommendation urging them to wash their hands before delivering babies and that 100 scientists opposed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.
Sincerely, Karen Malec Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
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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.
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