Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
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Press Release
Contact: Karen Malec
For Immediate Release
Date: October 24, 2005

Women's Group: The More Money Women Raise for Cancer Businesses, the More Breast Cancer They Get

"Eventually, cancer fundraising businesses will have to acknowledge the elephant in their living room - the abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link," asserted Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer.

Cancer businesses have raised billions for breast cancer.  Corporations profit from it by manufacturing an endless list of pink products ad nauseum. Are fewer women developing breast cancer?

Breast cancer remains the #2 female cancer killer. Nearly 270,000 breast cancer cases and over 40,400 deaths are expected this year. Lifetime risk for American women climbed from 1 in 12 in 1970 to 1 in 7 in 2005.

Only one scientist has explained why the Roe v. Wade generation - women under age 40 in 1973 when abortion became accessible - suffered a more than 40% increase in breast cancer cases between 1987 and 1998. [1]  He is Professor Joel Brind, lead author of a 1996 meta-analysis showing that 18 out of 23 studies reported risk increases for women who had abortions. [2]  Brind and his colleagues accurately predicted the increase in cases.

"The abortion industry and medical establishment withholds (information about the ABC link) in an attempt to prevent massive lawsuits from being filed....The tsunami of breast cancer cases from the large number of abortions in the 1980s and 1990s has yet to hit," reported an attorney for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. [3]

Two U.S. women successfully sued their abortion providers for neglecting to disclose the risks of breast cancer and emotional harm. [4]

"Cancer businesses use fraudulent research to deny the ABC link," said Malec. "Eventually, women will realize that the more money they raise, the more cancer they get. Cancer businesses can't make money by educating women about cancer prevention."

Scientists agree that the best way to prevent the disease is by having more babies, starting before age 24 and breast feeding them longer. [5,6,7] Abortion is incompatible with that goal.

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.

References:

1) Howe HL, Wingo PA, Thun MJ, Ries LA, Rosenberg HM, Feigal EG, Edwards BK. Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1973 through 1998, featuring cancers with recent increasing trends. J Natl Cancer Inst 2001;93:824-842.

2) Brind J, Chinchilli, VM, Severs WB, Summy-Long J. Induced abortion as an independent risk factor for breast cancer: a comprehensive review and meta-analysis. J Epidemiol Community Health 1996;50:481-496.

3) Schlafly A. Had an abortion? Call an attorney. Celebrate Life (Sept./Oct. 2005);31-32.

4) Schlafly A. Legal implications of a link between abortion and breast cancer. J Am Phys Surgeons 2005;10:11-14.

5) MacMahon, B, Cole P, Lin TM, Lowe CR, Mirra AP, Ravnihar B, Salber EJ, Valaoras VG, Yuasa S. Age at First Birth and Breast Cancer Risk. Bull WHO 1970;43:209-221.

6) Trichopoulos D, Hsieh C, MacMahon B, et al. Age at any birth and breast cancer risk. Int J Cancer 1983;31:701-704.

7) Beral V, et al. Breast cancer and breastfeeding: collaborative re-analysis of individual data from 47 epidemiological studies in 30 countries, including 50,302 women with breast cancer and 96,973 women without the disease. Lancet 2002;360:187-195.