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Denise Mountenay
Founder/President of Canada Silent No More
Co-founder of Women for Life International
"We commend Dr. Joel Brind, President of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute for his ongoing efforts to bring attention to the many credible world wide studies linking Breast Cancer to abortion.
"His latest paper; "Induced Abortion as an Independent Risk Factor for Breast Cancer…" is well researched and deserves the immediate attention of every woman who has or is considering to have an abortion.
"We are very concerned about the 28+ credible world wide studies linking abortion to this deadly disease. It has to do with the estrogens factor in pregnancy. Women have a right to know that if they choose to have an abortion, they could be choosing breast cancer. I have had two lumps removed from my left breast since my abortions. We, are outraged that we were never informed about the Breast Cancer Link before we had our abortions! Abortion not only killed our babies, it is killing us too.
"Canada Silent No More is a non-profit organization of men and women hurt and injured by legal abortion. We are collecting affidavit/testimonies for possible litigation. A number of lawsuits have commenced against abortion doctors for not informing women of the Breast Cancer link."
Denise Mountenay
250-242-4373
Email: silentnomore@telus.net
Charnette Messe
"My name is Charnette Messe. I am a young mother who was diagnosed with breast cancer and pregnancy in February 2002. I was 31 years old and told I would not see my then three-year-old daughter grow up. I commend Dr. Joel Brind for his honesty and research on the link between breast cancer and pregnancy. I believe that the National Cancer Institute as well as the entire medical communities have a responsibility to tell women the truth: that abortion is not healthy for women. I had a right to know that my abortion at the age of 20 would increase my risk for breast cancer. I had the right to know that it would increase my chances for infertility. I have suffered tremendous emotional and physical pain from my abortion. Women's health needs to be redefined. Abortions and contraception are not healthy for women. I had an abortion, I took birth control including Depo Provera and I have lost a child, an ovary, a breast and I may very well lose my life to this disease. Feminist organizations that promote abortion and contraception as healthy for women do not speak for me. I learned I was pregnant with another child the day after my cancer was confirmed and I underwent a masectomy and chemotherapy with my baby safely in my womb. Today he is three years old and doing very well. For any health organization to continue to mislead women telling us we need abortions for the health of the Mother are just wrong. I hope women will find the courage to speak up and demand the healthcare and honest information we have the right to. Until all breast cancer organizations and the medical communities include abortions and contraception as increased risk factors for breast cancer there will never be cure for the disease. Dr. Brind is an expert in his field and I commend him for his courage to save lives."
Charnette Messe
Frank Joseph MD
"Having reviewed Dr. Brind's paper, it should finally, once and for all put
an end to those ridiculous charges, including those from the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI), that abortions do not increase the risk of breast
cancer.
"Even the NCI and the American Cancer Society say that if a woman delays her first dull term birth, she increases her risk of breast cancer. Naturally an abortion delays a first full term delivery but they just refuse to use that word "abortion.
"Dr. Brind explains in detail the flaws in the cases which find no increased risk. Yet, those who discard the studies which have found that abortions increase the risk of breast cancer could NOT explain their conclusions... so they came up with a term call "recall bias." In other words -- how the data was collected and if the women were telling the truth about their abortion. As if a woman would forget that she had an abortion.
"What else could they do? They could not attack the mechanism of the abortion-breast cancer link scientifically....
"When pregnancy occurs, there is a SURGE of estrogen (2,000%) causing the breast cells to proliferate dramatically in the first trimester, in order to lay the foundation for the production of milk. These young growing cells are more prone to develop cancer.
"In the second half of pregnancy, the estrogen levels RECEDE under the influence of such hormones as human placental lactogen. The immature cells, then grow and differentiate rapidly into mature, specialized milk producing tissue. Once specialization has occurred, the cells are less likely to turn cancerous.
"When the pregnancy is terminated by an induced abortion, these young growing cells (known as undifferentiated cells), and having undergone drastic changes are now in LIMBO. They are no longer normal breast cells, nor are they capable of producing milk.
"In plain English, these insulted cells (traumatized) have been hung out to dry. They are between a rock and a hard place. Scientists have known for years that any cell in the human body that has been traumatized, whether by chemicals, radiation, micro-trauma, or any other reason would be especially vulnerable to cancer....
"One must then surmise that what has been instilled in physicians heads from time immemorial, regarding the vulnerability of abnormal cells, is no longer valid. To suit their political agenda, they would have you believe that an abnormal cell is NO more prone to becoming cancerous than a normal cell. This defies all scientific knowledge, as well as common sense and shows the depths some people will go, including the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to keep the abortions legal. They know that if the public is made aware of this, there would be a drastic decline in abortions and the possibility of Roe vs Wade might be overturned. They are interjecting politics at the expense of women's lives.
"It's the tobacco industry all over again. When will we ever learn?
"It has also been long known that a pregnancy carried to term protects against breast cancer. However, if a woman has an induced abortion, this protection is terminated. Even the NCI will admit to this.
"The reason is because the proliferation of the undifferentiated, cancer vulnerable cells, by the estrogen secreted early in the pregnancy, no longer has the protection that comes from hormones released later in pregnancy, since the pregnancy has been aborted.
"The estrogen/breast cancer risk has been known by doctors for many years, thus their reluctance to prescribe estrogen for menopausal women, especially those with any family history of breast cancer.
"Manufacturers of oral contraceptives alert the public as to the possible link between their product and breast cancer. The induced abortion risk is greater than the relative risk associated with oral contraceptives.
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to join the dots and find the real culprit....
"Politics and good health do not mix."
Frank Joseph MD
DFjosephMD@aol.com
Tom Messe, MD
"Basically, I am a firm believer in the ABC Link. I have read the studies and have been convinced of the biological and statistical evidence that abortion increases a woman's risk of Breast Cancer. It makes sense that a woman's breasts are unprotected in the first trimester during this wild time of rapid growth. Interfering with this transitition will leave the cells vulnerable to cancer.
"As you know, the link has hit home, my wife at age 31 was diagnosed with Breast Cancer having no other risk factors but her abortion at age 20. Abortion is bad for women. Bad for men. Bad for babies. Bad for society. I pray for the end of this suffering and anquish."
Tom Messe, MD
Pace, FL
Eve Sanchez Silver
Cinta Latina Research
"The new article by Professor Joel Brind, of New York's Baruch University, in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, reviews studies that clearly document the abortion-breast cancer link, information that has been disputed by those who see the abortion-breast cancer link as a pro-life boondoggle. Looks like it isn't so.
"Medical research analyst Eve Sanchez Silver, has high praise for Dr. Brind's work. Silver is Executive Director of CLResearch, a medical research analysis organization who lectures on the well-documented facts of the abortion-breast cancer link. Silver, an international speaker and two time abortion/breast cancer survivor herself, understands the abortion/breast cancer issue. Silver claims that the physiological facts of abortion's impact on the immature breast as an organ are rarely publicized.
"The facts are clear: the breast, is the only organ that is not mature at birth and does not mature until after a full-term pregnancy. Interruption of a pregnancy before 32 weeks dramatically increases breast cancer risk by exposing immature and cancer prone breast tissue to highly carcinogenic estrogens, over time. Full term pregnancy, protects the breast's cells by converting those susceptible cells to milk-producing cells that are no longer cancer prone. Who knew that in my own case, all my family breast cancer 'history', was still in the future?" I should have received the abortion-breast cancer information, available at that time. the unreported abc (abortion-breast cancer) information in studies available at the time. Silver lost her grandmother, and first cousin, one year younger than she, to breast cancer. Her mother had breast cancer as well.
"Abortion is the anchor of the politically correct fringe. No one dares to speak against it. But women's lives are at stake here. When facts are not reported by the media there is little the public can do. The abortion-breast cancer link facts are obfuscated in order to preserve a politically correct line, the political line has become more important than the lives of women.
"Dr. Brind's work will raise the questions and provide the answers that must be asked: If I had an abortion, what are my elevated breast cancer risks? If it turns out that my family has (or will have) a strong 'history' of breast cancer, what are my elevated breast cancer risks? What can I do to protect myself from breast cancer if I have already had an abortion?
"Litigation for failure to inform women on the high risks of the abortion-breast cancer link has begun here in the States and women are winning. As litigation grows and affects health insurance costs, etc. other questions will be asked:
"Who knew about the abortion-breast cancer link and said nothing? Who knew about the abortion-breast cancer link and did nothing?"
"Life belongs to the Living, " Silver said. "It is an outrage that the well-documented and peer-reviewed information on the abortion-breast cancer link, readily available to keep women alive and prevent breast cancer risks, is hidden from the people who need it."
"I was on the Latina advisory council when I learned that the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation was funneling money into Planned Parenthood's pockets. I quit. The Planned Parenthood Federation and the Komen Foundation have formed an unbreakable symbiotic relationship because they want the very same thing: a social agenda that includes abortion and real dollars.
"Target, a national department store had chosen to support Planned Parenthood, but they graciously agreed to drop Planned Parenthood when their customers said they would boycott.
"The Komen Foundation should be ashamed: The abortion-breast cancer link information is getting out to the public and Komen is not in the vanguard, leading the way. Instead, they have joined pockets with Planned Parenthood, with abortion dollars in one pocket and fungible breast-services dollars in the other. It's all of it tainted with the blood of uninformed women, Pink Money, spilling out of the same pair of pants."
Eve Sanchez Silver
Cinta Latina Research
Angela Lanfranchi, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center
"Professor Joel Brind's scientific review of 10 prospective studies, whose authors reportedly found no independent link between abortion and increased breast cancer risk, is an excellent follow-up to his scientific team's 1996 review and meta-analysis of the worldwide literature. It points to the serious flaws in these studies. The Scottish study provided the most egregious example. Scotland's population characteristics differ dramatically from the study subjects' characteristics. Most of the abortions done in Scotland are done on young women who are most susceptible to cancers forming because of abortion. Among the study's subjects, however, a minority of the patients included young women.
"I continue to see young women in my practice who were never told of the abortion-breast cancer link and who exposed themselves to that risk."
Angela Lanfranchi, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center
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