Abortion/Breast Cancer Cover up

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Contact: Karen Malec, Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 2 /Christian Newswire/ – During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer encourages women to send cancer groups the links to two You Tube videos that expose the cover-up of two breast cancer risks - abortion and hormonal contraceptives (containing estrogen and progestin). The videos reveal the cruel impact that the cover-up has had on women.

The first video, (youtube.com/watch?v=G2KrbM5x2kk) produced by Ignatius Productions, features a victim of breast cancer who states that abortion and hormonal contraceptive use at a young age destroyed her health. She fights desperately to beat the disease so she can raise her children.

The second video (youtube.com/watch?v=xj41i6dXPTY)), produced by Ends of the Earth Productions, features Karly Houldsworth who reports findings in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute showing that breast cancer rates climbed more than 40% between 1973 and 1998. [1] The increase took place exclusively among the youngest women of three generations - the Roe v. Wade generation.

At least five women have successfully sued their abortionists for keeping them clueless about the risks of breast cancer and emotional harm. [2,3]

“Cancer groups lied to women about the risks of using combined (estrogen + progestin) hormone replacement therapy and ‘the pill’ when conclusive evidence of a breast cancer risk became available in the 1980s,” said Karen Malec, president of the Coalition, "and they are still lying about abortion. [4,5,6]

“I realize that the breast cancer epidemic has been tremendously profitable for the cancer establishment,” continued Malec “but those who’ve participated in this cover-up should be deeply ashamed of themselves for the incredible suffering they’ve inflicted. These people are not pro-choice. They are cold, calculating abortion zealots driven by greed and fear of widespread medical malpractice lawsuits. Some cancer groups’ officials formerly worked for the abortion industry.”

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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References available online at abortionbreastcancer.com/press_releases/081002/index.htm
 
Since Catholic women are strictly forbidden to use artificial birth control in any form or to have an abortion, seems like this issue is moot. This is survival of the most obedient. Those who choose one or the other or both will certainly go to Hell and that will be the end of it, no? Automatically weeds out those brash enough to commit mortal sin, thus securing the fort for the spiritually fit.

Sounds like a plan.

marietta
 
Those who choose one or the other or both will certainly go to Hell and that will be the end of it, no? Automatically weeds out those brash enough to commit mortal sin, thus securing the fort for the spiritually fit.
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This isn’t Church teaching. It is clear from catechesis that none of us can judge others’ hearts, and the Church has never declared that any particular individual is in hell. Moreover, the idea that Christians should seek to “weed out those brash enough to commit mortal sin, thus securing the fort for the spiritually fit” seems totally incompatible with Christianity and with Sacred Tradition. Christ, and Christians in imitation of him, want others to repent, not burn in hell. In addition, it is clear from catechesis that none of us on earth are “spritually fit” before God; he alone is holy, and all of us are utterly unworthy of his divine life.

I haven’t seen this view advocated by anyone on this thread, or any Catholic I know personally for that matter. Where is it coming from?
 
Does a woman who uses artificial birth control and/or has an abortion and is not repentant just go to Purgatory to burn off the sin? I can’t imagine so.

marietta
 
Does a woman who uses artificial birth control and/or has an abortion and is not repentant just go to Purgatory to burn off the sin? I can’t imagine so.
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If Catholic catechesis is true: a woman who uses contraception or has an abortion and is not fully culpable for that act may very well go to purgatory. If a woman uses contraception or has an abortion, is fully culpable, and dies before repenting, then she will go to hell. The same goes for anyone who does something gravely wrong, is fully culpable, and dies without repenting.

I, of course, cannot know how culpable anyone else is for his or her sins. I can know that I and everyone else on earth are infinitely less holy than God and utterly in need of his grace.
 
Transformer said:
If Catholic catechesis is true: a woman who uses contraception or has an abortion and is not fully culpable for that act may very well go to purgatory.
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How can a woman be only partially culpable for using contraception or having an abortion? Please, no victim arguments. Thanks.

marietta
 
marietta said:
How can a woman be only partially culpable for using contraception or having an abortion? Please, no victim arguments. Thanks.

marietta
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Thankfully Marietta you are not God.

The fact is women are not being told any of this. Instead is sitting in Judgement over someone we should be informing them. We should be helping them. I know many women who have had abortions or been on birth control that had no idea of all the pain it was going to lead too. They have great remorse. We shoulod be reaching out in love, but if you rather celebrate people going to hell, remember pride is the sin that caused Lucifer to fall.
 
How can a woman be only partially culpable for using contraception or having an abortion? Please, no victim arguments. Thanks.
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In the case of abortion, I’m not sure how I can accurately answer your question without stating that many women who have abortions are victims. Many women who seek abortions do so while under a great deal of emotional stress; most do so while under some kind of emotional stress. Many are wildly misinformed about the nature of abortion. Any of those factors could easily limit a woman’s full knowledge or full consent.

A number of factors could limit a person’s culpability in using contraception as well. Things like a lack of understanding of the Church’s teaching on contraception, emotional stress from knowing that a woman will be in medical trouble if she has another child, difficult life circumstances that just make the Church’s teaching extraordinarily difficult to accept.

I’m not sure where you’re coming from here. Perhaps you could tell me why it seems to you a person’s culpability could not be mitigated in the cases of abortion and contraception.
 
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A number of factors could limit a person’s culpability in using contraception as well. Things like a lack of understanding of the Church’s teaching on contraception, emotional stress from knowing that a woman will be in medical trouble if she has another child, difficult life circumstances that just make the Church’s teaching extraordinarily difficult to accept.
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Not to mention that Dr.s will not tell a women about the dangers of BC and prescribe it for anything from acne to infertility.

The vast majority of women on BC have no idea of the harm it is/may cause to their bodies.
 
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The vast majority of women on BC have no idea of the harm it is/may cause to their bodies.
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Every single form of birth control dispensed across this country is accompanied by a physician’s insert explaining the risks, the contraindications and the possible side effects of taking the medication or device. If by some fluke the medication comes without the insert (as they sometimes become separated from the packaging), every woman should ask her pharmacist for a copy of this information. The pharmacist is required by law to provide it.

A woman on birth control who has “no idea of the harm it is/may cause” is either illiterate or is a moron.

marietta
 
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In the case of abortion, I’m not sure how I can accurately answer your question without stating that many women who have abortions are victims. Many women who seek abortions do so while under a great deal of emotional stress; most do so while under some kind of emotional stress. Many are wildly misinformed about the nature of abortion. Any of those factors could easily limit a woman’s full knowledge or full consent.

A number of factors could limit a person’s culpability in using contraception as well. Things like a lack of understanding of the Church’s teaching on contraception, emotional stress from knowing that a woman will be in medical trouble if she has another child, difficult life circumstances that just make the Church’s teaching extraordinarily difficult to accept.

I’m not sure where you’re coming from here. Perhaps you could tell me why it seems to you a person’s culpability could not be mitigated in the cases of abortion and contraception.
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Yes, a woman undergoing an abortion is under stress. Some take it rather lightly, as if they have discovered a run in their pantyhose; others’ lives are forever changed by the tremendous guilt and relief and sorrow.

It is unconscionable that any woman in the United States today is “wildly misinformed about the nature of abortion”. Have you asked yourself why these women might be so misinformed and what can be done to educate them?

Women use contraceptives to prevent pregnancy. It is a conscious decision - no one is slipping them a mickey. I took them for thirty years and it was my choice to do so. A woman must also ultimately choose whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term. There are innumerable variables surrounding this choice and the difficulties it presents. But in the end, it is the woman’s choice. She alone is culpable for termination. I don’t put stock in the meddling mother of the pregnant teen or the violent boyfriend insisting on termination. Many people try to be persuasive, but the woman is alone in that decision.

She is responsible. I learned the hard way.

marietta
 
marietta said:
Yes, a woman undergoing an abortion is under stress. Some take it rather lightly, as if they have discovered a run in their pantyhose; others’ lives are forever changed by the tremendous guilt and relief and sorrow.

It is unconscionable that any woman in the United States today is “wildly misinformed about the nature of abortion”. Have you asked yourself why these women might be so misinformed and what can be done to educate them?

Women use contraceptives to prevent pregnancy. It is a conscious decision - no one is slipping them a mickey. I took them for thirty years and it was my choice to do so. A woman must also ultimately choose whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term. There are innumerable variables surrounding this choice and the difficulties it presents. But in the end, it is the woman’s choice. She alone is culpable for termination. I don’t put stock in the meddling mother of the pregnant teen or the violent boyfriend insisting on termination. Many people try to be persuasive, but the woman is alone in that decision.

She is responsible. I learned the hard way.

marietta
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We all make mistakes in life. Everyday we make ungodly choices. We have pide, and malice, unforgiveness. We however are not called to sit in judgement of one another, God is the judge. We are called as followers of Christ to reach a hand out to those who are fallen. The women who seek abortion or contraceptives do not know God, if they did they would turn to him in the crisis. We need to be there to help them and reach out to them, not stand over them and say you are a horrible person.
 
She alone is culpable for termination. I don’t put stock in the meddling mother of the pregnant teen or the violent boyfriend insisting on termination.
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I think you are partially wrong here, Marietta. It takes great courage to say “no” in the face of being thrown out of your home, for instance. And that’s not a cliche. It takes strength and courage to say “no” when you know that it means the man you love will leave you. Unfortunately, neither you nor I has the power to keep women from loving jerks. I wish!

It takes great courage to fight a parent who says, “You are still a minor and you will do what I say.” Which is what my mother said to my sister, who had the abortion against her will and is still (at 57) desperately depressed, and has been hospitalized on suicide watch many times. (For those who are curious, yes, she takes her meds.)

When you put that kind of pressure together with the culture of death saying abortion is just a medical procedure with no serious consequences, it’s no wonder that some women cave in and say yes. Especially when their last chance to refuse is in the clinic surrounded by people who are *all *pushing for “yes.”

Yes, it is ultimately the mother’s decision to say no. But to do so under such pressure from those who love you and are supposed to take good care of you takes great conviction, courage, and strength, and not all of us have all three at the same time.

Ruthie
Vote pro-life!
 
Hi, Ruthie,

I agree, it does take great courage to say no when faced with very strong forces pushing one way or the other. I just happen to feel that when a woman crosses the threshold of an abortion facility and undergoes counseling, ultrasound, IV insertion, and all the rest of it, there are repeated opportunites for her to say no. If she chooses to terminate, that is her choice and hers alone. I believe that a meddling mother or a violent boyfriend may be culpable for their own participation in attempting to influence the woman one way or the other, but I do think the woman undergoing the procedure is fully accountable for taking that action.

Back when I had my procedure, and when your sister had hers, there was no such thing as counseling or ultrasound or IVs. My tech just gave me a 10 mg. Valium and ten minutes later, long before the tablet had time to dissolve, I was on the table. In and out. No chit chat. No comfort. No nothing.

I understand this is the way-wrong place to suggest that the procedure itself has come a long way since then. But please understand that women today who are considering abortion have so many more options and decisions to make before they put their feet in the stirrups. If it had been that way so long ago I might have a 37-year-old son or daughter now. This is what is so frustrating to me: that people who believe the trash that they read about “abortion mills” and “butchery” and all the rest of the rhetoric do not understand, nor do they want to understand, that these women aren’t sent to slaughter like sheep. Their for-profit status notwithstanding, the industry has made it possible for every woman to decline the procedure at any time, from their positive pregnancy test to the moment the aspirator is turned on and the tube is inserted. If a woman feels that she doesn’t want the procedure but she can’t stand up to her mother, her father, her boyfriend, her husband, her boss, her doctor, her *whatever, * then her problems began light years before she got pregnant.

marietta
 
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