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The Susan G. Komen Foundation is the best known organization raising money for the cure. But Komen gives money to Planned Parenthood, the U.S.'s largest abortion provider, and abortion causes breast cancer.

Komen, pro-aborts, and all liberal groups also vehemently deny the abortion-breast cancer connection.

For those 2 reasons, pro-lifers do not donate to Komen.

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jillstanek.com/archives/2008/03/abortion_breast.html#comments
 
Thanks for the information. As a rule my family only donates money to our parish or church approved charities. Our Catholic School participated in a Pennies for Patients fundraiser for the leukemia society until we found out they were supporting embryonic stem cell research. Pays to stay with the Church.
 
Psh. Abortion causes breast cancer? Sorry, not buyin’ it. I’m still going to support Pro-Choice and donate to Komen.
 
WearingAFedora said:
Psh. Abortion causes breast cancer? Sorry, not buyin’ it. I’m still going to support Pro-Choice and donate to Komen.
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Obviously, you’re not a practicing Catholic.

Abortion, especially a woman’s 1st pregnancy, most especially in the first trimester raises her chances significantly for breast cancer throughout her life. Her chance (risk) is increased 800%.

I myself have just found a lump. Diagnosis is in the works. The doctor taking the biopsy (yesterday-Wednesday), when I asked, said it looks like cancer to him. I am 49 years old, have had 2 children, and never had an abortion. Nobody in my family has cancer, we die of heart disease.

Pink is everywhere you look in our Country. Fedora, is it worth raising the stakes?

+Peace Be With You.
-Dawn in Texas
 
WearingAFedora said:
Psh. Abortion causes breast cancer? Sorry, not buyin’ it. I’m still going to support Pro-Choice and donate to Komen.
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Fortunately, the facts do not depend upon your purchase.
The link is not deniable. Plenty of statistical evidence is there.
 
vz71 said:
Fortunately, the facts do not depend upon your purchase.
The link is not deniable. Plenty of statistical evidence is there.
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Well, it is deniable and has been denied by the National Cancer Institute. cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/abortion-miscarriage

Why folks in the pro-life movement still insist that there is a link is a bit mysterious to me, but I think it has to do with wanting to use any argument possible against abortion… which is not a good strategy. False arguments only embolden the opposition and potentially drive away persons who might otherwise be won over.
 
Dale_M said:
Well, it is deniable and has been denied by the National Cancer Institute. cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/abortion-miscarriage
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And yet statistics continue to lead us to the conclusion of a link between breast cancer and abortion.

If you would like, I can supply hyperlinks to the data.

Oh well, it took them years to ‘discover’ that cigarette smoking was linked to lung cancer…it will probably take as long to show this.
 
I did a quick google on “abortion breast cancer”. From what I found, the only studies that suggest a link between the two were funded/provided by folks with an anti-abortion agenda (and they say the risk goes up 50% at most, not 800% as claimed in an above post). The national cancer institute, Harvard, etc., all say there is no link. I don’t like to be misled by folks on either side of the issue but I’m going with the cancer experts on this one. Not that I’ll be having an abortion any time soon (I’l be 50 in a few months)…
 
vz71 said:
If you would like, I can supply hyperlinks to the data.
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Thank you for offering, but I have followed links in previous threads.
Oh well, it took them years to ‘discover’ that cigarette smoking was linked to lung cancer…it will probably take as long to show this.
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Yes, perhaps so.
 
guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html#13

• Exhaustive reviews by panels convened by the U.S. and British governments have concluded that there is no association between abortion and breast cancer. There is also no indication that abortion is a risk factor for other cancers 13. Boonstra HD et al., Abortion in Women’s Lives, New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2006.

It’s often best if you’re going to oppose something to stick to the facts. Everyone on the pro-life side loses if we continue to use spurious data. There has been no proof that abortion causes breast cancer.
 
Well, some of you can say “There’s no proof.” I say, the women of the 70’s have come of age. Why is breast cancer so prevalent—in OUR Country? hmmm?

Both times, when I found I was pregnant, and began my prenatal care (2 different states-4 years apart), the doctors asked in my 1st visit, if I’d ever had an abortion, and how many. <-Can anyone guess why a prenatal doctor’s office would want to know that, if abortion does no harm?

hmmm?

I heard the same argument regarding Marijuana years ago. It “doesn’t hurt you.”

+Peace In Christ, This Divine Mercy Sunday!
-Dawn
 
DawnInTexas said:
Well, some of you can say “There’s no proof.” I say, the women of the 70’s have come of age. Why is breast cancer so prevalent—in OUR Country? hmmm?

Both times, when I found I was pregnant, and began my prenatal care (2 different states-4 years apart), the doctors asked in my 1st visit, if I’d ever had an abortion, and how many. <-Can anyone guess why a prenatal doctor’s office would want to know that, if abortion does no harm?

hmmm?

I heard the same argument regarding Marijuana years ago. It “doesn’t hurt you.”

+Peace In Christ, This Divine Mercy Sunday!
-Dawn
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You’re asked about past abortions because it’s part of your obstetrical history - it is considered a pregnancy, and as such it is noted in your chart if you’re 1st pregnancy or subsequent pregnancy - para and gravida - how many live births and how many pregnancies. They also ask you how many miscarriages you’ve had. It’s simply all part of your ob history.
 
WearingAFedora said:
Psh. Abortion causes breast cancer? Sorry, not buyin’ it. I’m still going to support Pro-Choice and donate to Komen.
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As of 2006, eight medical organizations recognize that abortion raises a woman’s risk for breast cancer, independently of the risk of delaying the birth of a first child (a secondary effect that all experts already acknowledge). An additional medical organization, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, issued a statement in 2003 calling on doctors to inform patients about a “highly plausible” relationship between abortion and breast cancer. General counsel for that medical group wrote an article for its journal warning doctors that three women (two Americans, one Australian) successfully sued their abortion providers for neglecting to disclose the risks of breast cancer and emotional harm, although none of the women had developed the disease. ****Click here for more.
 
You’ve not linked to anything independent. Only more of the same biased statements. Who are these “8 medical organizations”? Your link shows 2 . Further the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons is a fringe organization with some odd leanings. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons

Again, it does not do any of us good if we continue with the propaganda. People know bull when they hear it. We need to tell people the facts. This is not a fact.
 
fnz2thrght said:
Further the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons is a fringe organization with some odd leanings. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons
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Indeed…
According to the AAPS’s website, the organization is “dedicated to the highest ethical standards of the Oath of Hippocrates and to preserving the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship and the practice of private medicine”,[3] and to “supporting the principles of the free market in medical practice.”[1] The motto of the AAPS is omnia pro aegroto which means “all for the patient.”
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If this is “odd leanings” it makes one wonder what is considered normal.
 
Swan said:
I did a quick google on “abortion breast cancer”. From what I found, the only studies that suggest a link between the two were funded/provided by folks with an anti-abortion agenda (and they say the risk goes up 50% at most, not 800% as claimed in an above post). The national cancer institute, Harvard, etc., all say there is no link. I don’t like to be misled by folks on either side of the issue but I’m going with the cancer experts on this one. Not that I’ll be having an abortion any time soon (I’l be 50 in a few months)…
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But this really isn’t the point. Even if there is NO link between breast cancer and abortion, why in the world would anyone want to support ANY organization that contributes to PP? That is just beyond my comprehension. As a Catholic, support of PP, even passively, is inexcusable if you have the ability to avoid it.

~Liza
 
fnz2thrght said:
guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html#13

• Exhaustive reviews by panels convened by the U.S. and British governments have concluded that there is no association between abortion and breast cancer. There is also no indication that abortion is a risk factor for other cancers 13. Boonstra HD et al., Abortion in Women’s Lives, New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2006.

It’s often best if you’re going to oppose something to stick to the facts. Everyone on the pro-life side loses if we continue to use spurious data. There has been no proof that abortion causes breast cancer.
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The Guttmacher Institute is hardly an independent unbiased source. I wouldn’t regard anything they published as fact. They have a vested interest in wanting to deny the link seeing as how their affiliate PP, provides the abortions. It would put a serious dent in their business if the link were confirmed.

For many years I have heard and, even now, I hear people staunchly proclaiming that smoking tobacco does not cause cancer. For years and years, those with a vested interest, ie: the tobacco companies, have continued to deny the link and tried to debunk all the studies that showed them wrong.

It is the same here only it is the abortion providers who deny the link. It would hurt their bottom line if the link were confirmed so they twist and squirm and use all the same tactics that the tobacco companies have used so successfully for so many years. All the while, people were dying from using their product as directed and they were raking in the loot.
 
vz71 said:
If this is “odd leanings” it makes one wonder what is considered normal.
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Certainly not some of the details listed in that article. :eek:

The AAPS is a small, right wing organization - it certainly doesn’t represent the mainstream of the medical community. Heck, there are more American physicians going through drug or alcohol rehab than belong to the AAPS.
 
Even if abortion did raise a woman’s risk of breast cancer(which is debatable), I don’t think it would be criminalized. Cigarettes are proven to cause an even deadlier cancer(lung), and they’re not illegal. The pro-life movement would be smart to stick to factual science to support it(like fetal development).
 
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