Glamour Magazine Challenged to a Debate on Abortion-Cancer Link

From http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/press_releases/060420/index.htm




Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cance

rPress ReleaseContact: Karen Malec

For Immediate Release

Date: April 20, 2006

Glamour Magazine Challenged to a Debate on Abortion-Cancer Link


The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer challenges Glamour Magazine's experts to a debate on the abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link. Glamour has attempted to erase the link from the public mind twice in less than a year. [1,2] Why doesn't Glamour want women to know that:1) Experts agree on one risk of abortion - that childbearing matures breast tissue into cancer-resistant tissue, but abortion deprives women of this opportunity; therefore, the woman who aborts has a higher risk than the woman who has a baby; [3]

2) Experts debate whether abortion leaves women with an increase in cancer vulnerable breast tissue (the independent link); 3) Eight medical groups recognize an independent link between abortion and cancer; [4]4) The World Health Organization labeled combined oral contraceptives (estrogen plus progestogen) and combined hormone replacement therapy as "Group 1" carcinogens - findings that support an independent ABC link. [5] 5) Sixty significant studies link abortion with premature birth in later pregnancies; premature birth before 32 weeks gestation raises the risk of breast cancer for the mother and cerebral palsy for prematurely born children; [6]"Follow the money," said Karen Malec, president of the coalition.

"Glamour uses sex to sell its product. What's most appalling about these widespread efforts to propagandize the public is the stone-cold disregard for women's health. "Women shouldn't be deceived by those who stand to profit from legalized abortion," continued Malec. "Consider what the tobacco industry did to protect its bottom line. Fearing massive product liability lawsuits, its lawyers marshalled a stable of journalists, doctors and scientists who represented smoking as 'safe' and glamourous, especially for the 'liberated' woman." [7]There has never been a debate on the ABC link because our opponents know they would lose. Breast cancer surgeon Angela Lanfranchi, MD wrote, "The normal discourse in medicine when there is controversy on a scientific issue is to present arguments for both sides in texts and debate at scientific meetings. There has not been normal discourse concerning the ABC link." [8]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.References:

1. Brian Alexander, "The new lies about women's health," Glamour Magazine, May 2006.

2. Susan Dominus, "The mysterious disappearance of young pro-choice women," Glamour Magazine, August 2005, p. 200-19.3. Lynn Rosenberg, Ph.D., Boston Medical School, in sworn testimony as the expert witness for the abortion providers represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights in a lawsuit challenging Florida's parental notification law; NW FL Women's Health v. State of FL, FL Circuit Ct., 2nd circ., videotape deposition of 11/18/99, pp. 77-78.4. See <http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/medicalgroups/index.htm>

5. Press Release No. 167, "IARC Monographs Programme Finds Combined Estrogen-Progestogen Contraceptives (the "pill") and Menopausal Therapy Are Carcinogenic to Humans," World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer, July 29, 2005. See <http://www.iarc.fr/ENG/Press_Releases/pr167a.html>.

6. Rooney B, Calhoun B. Induced abortion and risk of later premature births. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons 2003;8:46-49.7. David Kessler, A Question of Intent: A Great American Battle with a Deadly Industry, Public Affairs, New York, 2001, p. 203 & 209. 8. Lanfranchi A. The breast physiology and the epidemiology of the abortion breast cancer link. Imago Hominis 2005;12(3): 228-236. <http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/Lanfranchi060201.pdf>.