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Dear Friends:
Today, we report on the Victorian Law Reform Commission's report on the decriminalization of abortion. A Member of the Victorian Parliament criticized the report because it failed to recommend measures that would help protect the physical and mental health of pregnant mothers procuring an abortion. We also report on an American surgeon who provided supporting evidence for a link between abortion and breast cancer.
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"Australian Commission's Report Ignores Risks of Abortion"
Hon. Peter Kavanagh, MLC (Democratic Labor Party), a Member of the Victorian Parliament in Australia, tabled a Notice of Motion in the Victorian Legislative Council on August 19, 2008. His Motion criticized a report on the decriminalization of abortion prepared by the Victorian Law Reform Commission. [1]
It said the commission failed to recommend measures that would help protect the physical and mental health of pregnant mothers seeking an abortion. Moreover, the commission did not acknowledge a large body of scientific evidence supporting the link between abortion and breast cancer and other physical and mental health risks associated with abortion.
Mr. Kavanagh's motion reads as follows:
"I give notice that, on the next day of meeting, I will move — That this House notes with deep concern the failures of the Victorian Law Reform Commission's Final Report on the Law of Abortion, in that the Report either ignored or dismissed a large volume of cogent, valuable scientific evidence showing physical and mental health risks of abortion to women and took no adequate or appropriate steps to provide the Government with that information, and further notes that the deficiencies in the Report include:
(1) the failure to acknowledge the risks of psychological damage, depression, suicide, the abortion breast cancer link, infertility and damage to the cervix and uterus resulting in pre-term births in subsequent pregnancies with concomitant problems including cerebral palsy; (2) opposition to mandated information provisions; (3) opposition to mandatory counseling; (4) opposition to any anti-coercion legislation thereby leaving women vulnerable to pressure by husbands, partners, family and others to have abortions which are not genuinely of their own choosing; (5) the failure to recommend banning partial-birth abortion, now banned in the United States of America; (6) the failure to seriously address the issue of fetal pain; and (7) the failure to address the role of abortion in destroying evidence of the sexual abuse of young women and the obligation of all medical practitioners to report evidence of child abuse."
Endeavour Forum, a women's group affiliated with the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, commended Mr. Kavanagh's motion.
Angela Lanfranchi, MD, clinical assistant professor of surgery at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center in New Jersey, provided supporting evidence for the Motion. She explained that medical history has demonstrated repeatedly that medical consensus changes over time, sometimes long after new scientific evidence becomes available. She said:
"Scientific consensus is not the equivalent of scientific truth. This has been historically proven over the ages time and time again. For example, western medicine's consensus of the absolute need for mastectomy and nothing less in treating breast cancer for 100 years has been disproven. Premature birth before 32 weeks is now accepted to result in the doubling of breast cancer risk for the mother. Induced abortion, which can be viewed as the premature birth of a dead fetus, also results in increased breast cancer risk of the mother. Both mothers' breasts have been exposed to the same hormones of pregnancy, which result in the same changes causing increased risk of breast cancer in both women. These mothers are different only in whether their children left their wombs alive or dead. It took nearly four decades before there was 'scientific consensus' that cigarette smoking was a cause of lung cancer despite lung cancer rates dramatically increasing in the post World War II era when cigarette smoking had also dramatically increased. In the last decades since abortion has become more prevalent, so has the breast cancer incidence increased. What will it take to connect the dots?"
Eight medical organizations acknowledge that abortion is an independent risk factor for breast cancer. [2] Abortion, in other words, leaves women with more places in their breasts for cancers to start.
Additionally, standard medical texts have acknowledged for the last few decades that increased childbearing, starting at an early age (the earlier, the lower the risk), provides protection against breast cancer.
A first full term pregnancy plays the most significant role in reducing breast cancer risk. During the last months of a first full term pregnancy, 85% of the breast lobules mature from cancer-susceptible Type 1 and 2 lobules into fully cancer-resistant Type 4 lobules. Women who use abortion to delay a first birth forfeit the protective effect of an early first full term pregnancy.
It is obvious that those serving on the Victorian Law Commission put the needs of the abortion industry ahead of the needs of pregnant mothers. On the other hand, how can Australians expect abortion enthusiasts - who do not care about the lives of unborn children - to care whether women die of breast cancer as a result of their abortions?
References:
1. "Law of abortion: Final report," Victorian Law Reform Commission, March 2008. (click here).
2. For a list of medical groups acknowledging the independent link between abortion and breast cancer, see the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer's website (click here).
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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.
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