Why?
"After 44 years...it has
become very apparent that the powers-that-be do not intend to share
this information (Abortion-Breast Cancer link) with the public."
(Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer)
“Induced abortion before first term
pregnancy increases the risk of breast cancer.”
Epidemiologists from the National Institutes for Health and the Centers
for Disease Control cited abortion as a risk factor for breast
cancer in 1986, but did not tell women. (Lancet, Feb. 22,
1986, p. 436.)
...one day women and their orphaned children will demand an accounting from
the press, women’s
groups, scientists, medical societies, legislators and anti-cancer
organizations. The last group will be asked this hard question,
‘Do you really care about women’s health, or are you only
interested in fundraising and perpetuating your organizations?’
(AbortionBreastCancer.com)
Chicago Sun Times reporter, Dennis Byrne,
wrote that:
"If a scientist
discovered a risk factor that increases the chance of breast cancer by
30 percent, you’d have thought it would have spurred huge headlines
and impassioned demands for action. With the exception of AIDS, no
other health issue has been as politicized as breast cancer. Yet as
scientists zero in on what one called the single most avoidable risk
factor for breast cancer, barely a peep has been heard for more
research, more funds or more information. That’s because the risk is
abortion" (Dennis Byrne, "Abortion, Ideology and Breast
Cancer," Chicago Sun-Times, July 2, 1997, p. 33).
Los Angeles columnist, Joe Gelman, wrote
this comment in the L.A. Daily News:
"So, how has the feminist establishment
reacted to these findings? Stone silence or denial by some and an
active campaign to discredit the findings by others. One would think
that individuals and organizations committed to women’s issues,
particularly health issues, would be more than eager to educate the
public..."(Joe Gelman, Editorial, "Findings Linking Cancer to
Abortions a Well-Kept Secret," L.A. Daily News, September 28,
1997, at V4).
"Another kind of bias has to do with bias within the scientific community itself, which can influence authors and what is published in the medical journals. The bias can be motivated by ideology or by money. Researchers frequently are given grants to conduct their studies. If the grantor is,
for example, a pharmaceutical company which manufactures abortifacient drugs, then it clearly has a financial interest in what findings are reported by the authors of the study. Other grantors include the World Health Organization and Family Health International. Both have funded studies supporting abortion’s reputed safety and financed the use of contraceptives or abortion."
(Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer)
