Press Release
Contact: Karen Malec, 847/421-4000
For Immediate Release
Date: June 23, 2003

COALITION ON ABORTION/BREAST CANCER CHEERS TEXAS
INFORMED CONSENT LEGISLATION

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer cheered the passage of informed
consent legislation in Texas.  The "Right to Know" bill requires physicians
to educate abortion-bound women about the increased risk of breast cancer.

Karen Malec, president of the coalition, declared, "The passage of the bill
represents a further deterioration in the credibility of the National Cancer
Institute (NCI) and private cancer organizations.  Governor Rick Perry and
Texas lawmakers have joined a growing number of individuals and groups which
do not recognize the NCI's workshop report on the abortion-breast cancer
(ABC) research as a believable document."

The workshop's statement that abortion is unrelated to increased risk of
breast cancer contradicted 46 years of biological and epidemiological
evidence. Thirteen out of 15 American studies - most of which the NCI helped
to pay for - report risk elevations.

An animal study and a never-refuted biological explanation support a causal
relationship. [1]   Estrogen overexposure has long been recognized as a
promoter of breast cancer.

"The government's cover-up of the ABC link is transparent," declared Mrs.
Malec.  "My article in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
(available at www.jpands.org) discusses 46 years of concealment and
scientific misconduct. [2]

"We know that government health officials and federally funded scientists
are fully capable of performing atrocities," continued Mrs. Malec.  "In
1972, the Tuskegee Syphilis Scandal (also called "America's Nuremberg") came
to light. The U.S. Public Health Service conducted a study on 399 syphilitic
sharecroppers for 40 years.  The study's subjects weren't told they had
syphilis and never treated for the disease.  Consequently, they, too, were
denied opportunities to protect their health and stripped of their rights to
give their informed consent as study subjects.  Even Alabama medical
societies supported the continuation of that study."

Reference:

1. Russo and Russo. Am J Pathol (1980) 100:497-512.
2. Malec K. The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link: How Politics Trumped Science
and Informed Consent. (2003) Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 41-45.

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.