It would be logical to ask how serious Komen can be about eradicating breast cancer when it maintains a relationship with an organization that is the single largest provider of abortion. This despite the fact that numerous studies, including one funded by the National Cancer Institute and directed by pro-abortion Dr. Janet Daling, have shown that having an abortion, especially as a teenager or before a woman carries her first pregnancy to term, increases breast cancer risk.
Dr. Joel Brind of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute (
bcpinstitute.org) says only 5-10% of all breast cancer cases are felt to be caused by a breast cancer gene, meaning other causes, like abortion, are responsible for the rest.
Breast cancer rates are rising, particularly among young women. According to the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, they have risen more than 40% since abortion was legalized in 1973, when the lifetime risk for the average American woman developing breast cancer was one in 12. Now it is one in eight. However, breast cancer fundraising organizations, including Komen, still claim there is no relationship between abortion and breast cancer.
According to Karen Malec, of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer (
abortionbreastcancer.com), the total number of deaths due to all cancers would have declined sooner if the government and the cancer establishment had been honest about the abortion-breast cancer link 20 years ago, when it was acknowledged by government scientists in the British journal Lancet.
Due to the Komen Foundation’s ongoing relationship with Planned Parenthood, both locally and nationally, Quad City Right to Life cannot recommend supporting Race for the Cure. Do not be fooled by Komen’s defense that 100% of the money granted to Planned Parenthood is used for its intended purpose of eradicating breast cancer. Being a recipient of grants gives a mask of legitimacy to Planned Parenthood, and it’s impossible to separate its killing business from less controversial services like cervical and breast cancer screening.
If you don’t want your money going to Planned Parenthood, please contact SBK
Headquarters
5005 LBJ Freeway, Suite 250
Dallas, TX 75244
Telephone: 972-855-1600
Fax: 972-855-1605
and tell them you will not be able to support them until they end their relationship with Planned Parenthood.