Right to Know

COALITION ON ABORTION/BREAST CANCER SAYS THAT WOMEN HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW ABOUT ABORTION-BREAST CANCER LINK

"We encourage news reporters and editors to inform women about all risk factors related to breast cancer when covering the Avon breast cancer awareness walk on Father's Day, Sunday," said Karen Malec, coordinator of the Abortion/Breast Cancer Coalition. “We think that women have the right to know that 27 out of 33 worldwide studies have linked abortion with breast cancer. This information, which has been available since 1957, has been withheld from women for too long.”

Friday, June 16th is the start of Chicago’s participation in the Avon Breast Cancer Three Days Walk, as part of a national series of unique fundraising events taking place in the months from May to October in Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and Chicago. An estimated 20,000 people will walk up to 60 miles to raise money and public awareness in the fight against breast cancer.

British Medical Profession to Warn Women of Breast Cancer Risk in Abortion

Britain's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has decided to warn doctors and their patients about the link between induced abortion and breast cancer, according to a page-one story in Sunday's edition of the Mail on Sunday.

The news report was cited in the US in a news release from the International Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, which is based in Palos Heights, Illinois, a Chicago suburb.

The British professional association plans, according to the news report, to publish the warning via leaflets and the Internet and will be joined in the campaign by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, which serves an estimated 50,000 women annually.

"Exhaustive studies encompassing hundreds of thousands of women suggest that those who terminate pregnancies run a 30 per cent greater risk of breast cancers...."Examining 28 separate studies," reported the Mail on Sunday, "[researchers in the US] found that 24,500 cases of breast cancer were attributable to abortion."

The news story notes the Royal College independently assessed the findings and concluded the warning should be issued.