The following medical organizations recognize a link between abortion and breast cancer. Telling women their abortions are related to increased breast cancer risk is clearly not good for cancer fundraising businesses, the abortion industry and the pharmaceutical industry. Medical groups whose doctors do not perform abortions or refer women for abortions will be among the first to recognize that abortion raises a woman’s breast
cancer risk.
National Physicians Center for Family Resources
P.O. Box 59692
Birmingham, AL 35259
205/870-0234
www.physicianscenter.org
The National Physicians Center for Family Resources offers Prescriptions for Parents: A Physicians’ Guide to Adolescence and Sex, a CD for parents and health educators that cites “increased breast cancer risk” as a “long-term complication of abortion” and offers a biological explanation for the abortion-breast cancer link.
Catholic Medical Association
2020 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, #864
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 1-877-CATHDOC (877-228-4362)
www.cathmed.org
“Whereas epidemiological evidence of an association between abortion and
breast cancer has existed for almost a half century,
“Whereas 29 our of 38 worldwide epidemiological studies show an increased
risk of breast cancer of approximately 30% among women who have had an
abortion,
“Whereas all women undergoing abortion are entitled to full informed consent
as to all risks including long term risks,
“Therefore be it resolved that the Catholic Medical Association endorses the
passage of state legislation to require abortionists to inform all women of
their future increased vulnerability to breast cancer.” (Resolution approved 10/15/03)
American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists
844 South Washington, Suite 1600
Holland, MI 49423
616-546-2639
www.aaplog.org
Breast Cancer Prevention Institute
9 Vassar St.
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
845/452-0797
www.bcpinstitute.org
The Polycarp Research Institute
2232 Second Avenue
Altoona, PA 16602
www.polycarp.org
Ethics and Medics
6399 Drexel Road
Philadelphia, PA 19151
http://www.ncbcenter.org/
MaterCare International
8 Riverview Avenue
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Canada A1C 2S5
Phone: 709-579-6472
Fax: 709- 579-6501
E-Mail: info@matercare.org
Statement Concerning the Link between Induced Abortion and Breast Cancer, R. L. Walley. FRCSC., FRCOG., MPH Executive Director and Honourary Research Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
“MaterCare International an international group of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists was presented with the evidence of the link between abortion and breast cancer at its international conference in Rome in October 2004 by Dr Joel Brind’s research group. The medical explanation and the epidemiological evidence convinced our group that there is a significant increase in breast cancer risk after induced abortion, especially before the first full term pregnancy. This evidence has been denied by the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) and other researchers. Recently ten studies have been published in an attempt to discredit Brind’s conclusion.
“In turn Brind has examined these ten studies and in a peer reviewed paper published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (Vol 10, No 4, Winter 2005, <http://www.jpands.org>) he has shown that they have serious methodological weaknesses and flaws and therefore do not invalidate the conclusion that there is a increased risk of breast cancer.
“Women have a basic right to know of this increased risk of breast cancer and it is unacceptable that the information should be denied to them by the medical and cancer research establishments. MaterCare International as an organisation of women’s health specialists recognies its responsibilities in this matter and will do all it can to publish this evidence.”
Breast Care Center-EAMC
G/F OPD Bldg East Avenue Medical Center, East Avenue,
Quezon City, Philippines
Phone: (632)-928-0611 loc 578
E-mail: pfbci_bcc@yahoo.com
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/news/Santos/index.htm
Medical Groups Supporting Disclosure of Research
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
1601 N. Tucson Blvd., Suite 9
Tucson, AZ 85716-3450
520-323-3110
“The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons believes that patients have the right to give or withhold fully informed consent before undergoing medical treatment. This includes notification of potential adverse effects. While there is a difference of medical opinion concerning the abortion breast cancer link, there is a considerable volume of evidence supporting this link, which is, moreover, highly plausible. We believe that a reasonable person would want to be informed of the existence of this evidence before making her decision.”
Jane Orient, MD
Executive Director
October 27, 2003
Read Karen Malec’s article, “The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link: How Politics
Trumped Science and Informed Consent,” in the Journal of American Physicians
and Surgeons.
Medical Groups in Need of Political Courage
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
American Medical Association
A spokesman for the AMA told World Net Daily that its group “doesn’t have a policy at all” on whether its doctors should inform women about the abortion-breast cancer research.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
American Society of Breast Surgeons
Miami Breast Cancer Conference
All Cancer Groups
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/newsletter102202.htm
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/050902.htm
For more information visit www.abortionbreastcancer.com
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