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March 20th, 2002

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, an international women’s organization, accused the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of suppressing the truth about research exploring the abortion-breast cancer link in its recently revised fact sheet. The group’s president, Karen Malec, said: "The NCI is conducting a shameless campaign to conceal the truth about research paid for by U.S. taxpayers." 

Biological evidence and 28 out of 37 studies done in different parts of the world since 1957 associate abortion with the disease. Thirteen of 15 studies done in the U.S. have confirmed a link. Although most of these were funded by the NCI, the new fact sheet cites only two U.S. studies. 1 Our website lists the studies at < www.AbortionBreastCancer.com >. 

March 7, 2001

An international women's organization whose objective is to prevent breast cancer caused by induced abortion urged the media to report the abortion breast cancer research objectively.

Mrs. Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, said, "Dr. Joel Brind, Ph.D. has identified 27 out of 34 worldwide studies published since 1957 linking abortion with breast cancer. Thirteen of 14 U.S. studies implicate abortion as a risk factor. Seventeen are statistically significant.  Five studies show a more than twofold increased risk." 

"Our organization is pro-life for women," asserted Mrs. Malec.  "Unfortunately, when it comes to this politically incorrect information, not everyone is pro-women's health.  This information has been covered up for 44 years."

Dear Friends:

The Wanderer, a national Catholic newspaper, featured an article on April 21, 2011 about support for Planned Parenthood from the leaders of Susan G. Komen and the American Cancer Society. The story by Dexter Duggan is featured below.

Sincerely,
Karen Malec
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES

"Not Only The Federal Government . . .
Directs Money To Planned Parenthood"

By Dexter Duggan

The Wanderer
April 21, 2011

While Democrats on Capitol Hill fight to keep shoveling hun­dreds of millions of taxpayer dol­lars every year to the nation’s larg­est abortion provider, Planned Par­enthood, two veteran pro- life ac­tivists spoke to The Wanderer about two other organizations that direct some funds they collect to the abortion giant.

Michael Hichborn, a spokes­man for the Virginia- based Ameri­can Life League ( ALL), said that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation and American Cancer Society ( ACS) might be influ­enced by negative publicity about helping feather the Planned Par­enthood nest, but the problem goes deeper.

Letter to Virginia Delegate Barbara Comstock Regarding the Cancer-Causing Dangers of the Birth Control Pill 

Dear Friend:

Virginia Delegate Barbara Comstock states on her website that she led a delegation of 13 women from Virginia's House of Delegates in supporting an effort to encourage U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to make birth control pills available to women over the counter to women ages 18 and older.

As our readers know, the World Health Organization lists the birth control pill with estrogen and progestin in it as a Group 1 cancer-causing substance. It's on the same page as tobacco, mustard gas, and asbestos. Although the WHO says it raises risk for cancers of the breast, liver and cervix, it also states it reduces the risk for far less common cancers of the cervix and endometrium. However, there are four times as many cases of invasive and in situ breast cancer annually in the U.S. than there are cases of cervical and endometrial cancers combined. As we have said many times in the past, it is wrong-headed to give women a carcinogen (the pill) to prevent cancer.

A coalition led by Rachelle Sauvageau, the director of the Pro-Life Office for the Catholic Diocese of Fargo, North Dakota, has embarked on a newspaper, billboard and parish bulletin ad campaign to educate women about the abortion-breast cancer link. The ads contain the web address and the toll free number for the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, an international women's organization whose purpose is to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer. 

This ad campaign coincides with a lawsuit against a Fargo abortion provider, the Red River Women's Clinic, which had been distributing a pamphlet to its clients containing false and misleading statements about the research concerning the abortion-breast cancer link. The statement from the pamphlet says, "Anti-abortion activists claim that having an abortion increases the risk of developing breast cancer and endangers future childbearing. None of these claims are supported by medical research or established medical organizations." The plaintiff, Amy Jo Mattson, alleges false advertising and is seeking injunctive relief.