[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Abortifacient anti-HCG vax crashes; NIH Ok's embryonic stem cell experimentation; more...

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*/_ABORTIFACIENT anti-HCG VACCINE CRASHES, BURNS..._/* 
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December 2, 2009

*NIH OKAYS EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH*

 Catholic League president Bill Donohue addresses today's news that the 
National Institutes of Health (NIH) has cleared the way for federally 
funded embryonic stem-cell research:

 When Barack Obama was in the Illinois State Senate, he fought 
passionately to deny little babies born alive as a result of a botched 
abortion the medical care they needed to survive. It is not surprising, 
then, that it took this ethically challenged man only seven weeks to 
overturn President Bush's executive order limiting government money to 
research on existing embryonic stem-cell lines. Now the NIH has decided 
which new lines are "appropriate," leading those scientists who will get 
rich from this disturbing decision to jump for joy.

 It is true that all the stem lines that were approved involve embryos 
left over from fertility clinics. But it won't stop there, and that is 
because those with the muscle to do something about this 
issue---beginning with the president---are essentially utilitarians who 
lack a principled ethical base.

 Dr. Bernadine Healy, a former director of the NIH, recently said that 
embryonic stem-cell research was basically "obsolete." That's because, 
in part, there are ways in which scientists can approximate this 
research by using ethically neutral adult stem cells. But this isn't 
good enough for those scientists who are literally salivating over the 
thought of getting their hands on the stimulus package loot. Dr. Francis 
Collins, the NIH's director, said it well when he offered the following 
Pavlovian response: "People are champing at the bit for the opportunity 
to get started."

 What's next? Intentionally creating and destroying embryos with more 
stimulus money? To those who say it doesn't matter, remember this: every 
one of us started as an embryo, and it is impossible to do this kind of 
research without first killing nascent human life. One more thing that 
should give us pause: Germany has the strictest bioethical guidelines in 
Europe. They know what happens when human rights are treated cavalierly. 
Obama should know something about the same subject.

 

Susan A. Fani
Director of Communications
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
450 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10123
212-371-3191
212-371-3394 (fax)

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Bishop still has 'very serious concerns' about health care legislation 
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Catholic News Agency
Pro-life physicians and nurses as well as private health care 
institutions need to be "free from coercion" on abortion, 
*contraception*, sterilization and *...*
See all stories on this topic 
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Panel examines *conscience* clauses 
<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/news/panel-examines-conscience-clauses-1.952021&ct=ga&cd=ZDKR5q8pgXc&usg=AFQjCNGDtV3vtHSHMAd2cowtmNhVY46ojw>
Observer Online - IN,USA
*...* has delved into the political debate on *conscience* clauses and 
continues *...* a panel discussion titled "What Would a Good *Conscience 
Clause* Look Like? *...

**Oh? Michigan Abortion Facility Advertises Abortion as "Sacred Work"*
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/dec/09120402.html 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=18096&N=529&L=3778&F=H>
Life Site news
Northland "Family Planning Centers" of Michigan are now advertising 
their services with a video calling abortion "sacred work."  Set to 
soft, upbeat piano music and themed with pink pastel shades, a recently 
uploaded video entitled "Every Day, Good Women Choose Abortion," assures 
prospective customers that deciding "to have an abortion is a normal 
experience," and that the decision is a good decision. 

*Openly Lesbian so-called 'Catholic' Woman Is Member of USCCB 
Subcommittee For Health Care and Work
*http://www.pewsitter.com/view_news_id_26776.php 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=18096&N=529&L=3777&F=H>
Pewsitter
Michael Hichborn of American Life League, commenting upon CCHD funding 
controversy last month stated, "Given how easily we discovered CCHD 
funding going to anti-Catholic causes, the only two possibilities are 
that the CCHD is incompetent or complicit."  Mr. Hichborn's quote would 
seem to apply here, to the present association between Mary Henry and 
the USCCB, as well.
For the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq-KeN0-QSE 

*Senate Passes Amendment that Could Mandate Abortion Coverage in 
Insurance Plans*
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/dec/09120302.html 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=18096&N=529&L=3779&F=H>
Life Site News
The Senate on Thursday approved the Mikulski amendment by a vote of 
61-39.  All Republicans except Senators Vitter, Snowe and Collins voted 
against the amendment, and all Independents and Democrats except 
Senators Nelson (NE) and Feingold voted for it. Pro-life leaders opposed 
the amendment over concerns that it provides authority that could be 
used to mandate abortion coverage in private insurance plans. 
/
/Neinstedt: Church speaks with 'moral voice' on health care reform 
<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/12/03/nienstedt-healthcare/&ct=ga&cd=uqJFTq8p3Ww&usg=AFQjCNEutito4AoI4UYtDgNj7ULz0KR6MQ>
Minnesota Public Radio - Saint Paul,MN,USA
*...* or lacks a "*conscience clause*" to allow medical providers to opt 
out of performing abortions or other procedures they consider immoral. *...*

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From: Coalition on Abortion Breast Cancer <mail at abortionbreastcancer.com>
Subject: Breast Cancer's Link to Abortion: The Daily Iowan Implies 
Catholic Doctors Can't Do Science
To: response at abortionbreastcancer.com
Date: December 3, 2009


Dear Friends:

Editors at /The Daily Iowan/ were happy to invite Rebecca Curtis to 
write a rebuttal to a guest opinion by two, impressionable law students 
from the University of Iowa, until they learned what she had to say 
about the link between abortion and increased breast cancer risk. Then 
they fell back on the arguments that limited editorial space is 
available and that Curtis isn't from the Iowa City area.

*Write to */*The Daily Iowan*/* and ask the editors to take on the 
challenges that our group has presented to them.* We asked them to make 
some simple requests of the American Cancer Society, Susan G. Komen for 
the Cure and the U.S. National Cancer Institute, which will help the 
editors to shed light on the cancer establishment's honesty. These 
requests include:

1) Review Dr. Angela Lanfranchi's paper in the journal, /The Linacre 
Quarterl//y/, and identify what, if any errors, are in her presentation 
of the physiology of the breast.

2) Refute the biological reasons for an independent link between 
abortion and increased breast cancer risk.

3) Is childlessness a risk factor for breast cancer? If so, then please 
answer this question. If a woman aborts all of her pregnancies, will she 
be childless?

4) Who has a greater breast cancer risk - the 15-year-old who has an 
abortion or the 15-year-old who has a full term pregnancy (all other 
factors being the same)?

If the editors care about the young college students they serve, they 
will take us up on our challenge.

/The Daily Iowan/'s contact page is 
at: http://www.dailyiowan.com/pages/lte.html

Sincerely,
Karen Malec
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer


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*ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES*

*"Breast Cancer's Link to Abortion: */*The Daily 
Iowan Implies*/* Catholic Doctors Can't Do Science"*

By Karen Malec, president, Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

/On two occasions early in November, The Daily Iowan/'s opinion editor, 
Shawn Gude, invited a reader by the name of Rebecca Curtis to send him a 
600-word rebuttal in response to a guest opinion written by University 
of Iowa law students, Amber Fricke and Amy Hirst, on October 27, 2009 
that incorrectly stated that abortion does not increase breast cancer 
risk. [1] 

/Curtis sent The Daily Iowan a rebuttal 
<http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/download/Response.PDF>, but Gude 
rejected it on November 5 and invited her to re-write it. She quickly 
responded by sending him a revised rebuttal 
<http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/download/Re-writeResponse.PDF>, but 
on November 9, he rejected that too. Gude explained to Curtis, "While I 
appreciate your submission, I remain skeptical of some of your sources." /

/Gude objected that Curtis had cited research published in /The Linacre 
Quarterly/, a publication of the Catholic Medical Association, and 
the /Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons/, a publication of the 
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, even though both 
publications are peer-reviewed medical journals and the authors of the 
research papers in question are esteemed, international experts on the 
abortion-breast cancer link. [8,9] (The term "peer-reviewed" means that 
the scientific papers have been evaluated by an impartial panel of 
experts who recommend the papers for publication or rejection.) /

/I/t appears that Gude and other editors had held Curtis' commentary to 
a higher standard of scrutiny than the commentary by Fricke and 
Hirst. The editors permitted Fricke and Hirst to cite the pro-abortion 
Guttmacher Institute, as well as two studies that have been proven in 
the /New England Journal of Medicine/ and the /Journal of American 
Physicians and Surgeon/s to be fatally flawed. [2,3,4,5] Fricke and 
Hirst, who are members of the euphemistically named University of Iowa 
Law Students for Reproductive Justice, also cited the American Cancer 
Society's web page, "Is Abortion Linked to Breast Cancer?" [6]

Had the editors at the paper conducted a 5-minute search on PubMed, they 
would have learned that one of Fricke and Hirst's citations, a study 
named Melbye et al. 1997, actually reported a statistically significant 
89% risk increase for women who have abortions after 18 weeks gestation, 
although researchers found no overall increase in risk. [2] (The 
American Cancer Society insults women's intelligence by using this study 
to deny an abortion-breast cancer link.)

Furthermore, Melbye's team found a dose effect of 3% per week of 
gestation until the abortion takes place, thereby fulfilling one of the 
criteria needed for establishing a cause-effect relationship. In other 
words, the longer a pregnant woman is exposed to the cancer-causing 
effects of an elevated estrogen level before her abortion takes place, 
the greater her breast cancer risk is (provided the abortion occurs 
before 32 weeks gestation). The breasts grow during a normal pregnancy 
because estrogen stimulates the mother's cancer-susceptible lobules to 
multiply. The longer she is pregnant before her abortion takes place, 
the more places she grows for cancers to start. 

Breast cancer risk plunges at 32 weeks and continues to plunge for each 
week thereafter until delivery at 40 weeks, as the fetus produces 
hormones that mature an increasing number of the mother's breast lobules 
into permanently cancer-resistant lobules. [7,8] By 40 weeks, 85% of the 
lobules are permanently cancer-resistant. Then, the mother is left with 
fewer places in her breasts for cancers to start. (That explains why 
full term pregnancy is protective against breast cancer.)

If /The Daily Iowan/'s editors had conducted a PubMed search, they would 
have discovered a 1999 study by Melbye's team reporting that premature 
birth before 32 weeks gestation more than doubles breast cancer risk (a 
finding that supports an independent link between abortion and breast 
cancer). [7] Early premature birth, like abortion, is a short pregnancy 
exposing the mother's cancer-susceptible breast lobules to virtually the 
same pregnancy hormones, which result in the same structural changes and 
leave her with more places for breast cancers to start. 

Instead of considering the scientific evidence on how the breasts 
develop and function that had been presented in the journal,/The Linacre 
Quarterly/, Gude and his colleagues decided to shoot its messengers. [8] 
 Gude wrote to Curtis that he was "/uneasy/" about the use of a source 
from /The Linacre Quarterly, /which "/exists to uphold the principles of 
the Catholic faith and morality as related to the science and practice 
of medicine./"

What was Gude implying? That Catholic doctors can't do science? That 
they bend science to fit their religious beliefs? The implication is 
that Catholic doctors are incapable of objectivity when it comes to 
scientific research on abortion, unlike doctors of other faiths and 
atheists and agnostics (none of whom could possibly be biased in favor 
of abortion). If Gude had dared to imply that a Jewish medical journal 
was not credible because it exists to uphold the Jewish faith in the 
science and practice of medicine, consider the outrage that would follow.

Bias is not exclusively a one-way street that occurs only in the 
pro-life camp, but when bias goes the opposite way, in the direction of 
the pro-abortion camp, abortion enthusiasts in the media are 
indifferent, even if that bias endangers women's lives. For example, 
although cancer experts universally consider childbearing to be 
protective against breast cancer and an independent link between 
abortion and breast cancer has been studied for 53 years, cancer 
fundraising groups, like Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Breast Cancer 
Action and the National Breast Cancer Coalition, have included radicals 
among their leaders who had previously been associated with Planned 
Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America and the American Civil Liberties 
Union. Why would it be in their interest to educate women about the 
three ways that abortion raises breast cancer risk?

Dr. Leslie Bernstein's bias in favor of abortion is overt, but no one 
would ever dream of insulting her by associating her religious faith (or 
lack of faith) with the way she has conducted herself as a scientist. 
Bernstein was a leader/moderator at the U.S. National Cancer Institute's 
phony workshop on the abortion-breast cancer link in 2003. After that 
workshop, she told CancerPage.com why she doesn't want women to know 
that abortion raises breast cancer risk. Note that she acknowledged that 
the younger a woman is when she has her first birth, the lower her 
breast cancer risk is. (It can't be denied that abortion is used to 
delay first full term pregnancies.) Bernstein said:

    /"The biggest bang for the buck is the first birth, and the younger
    you are, the better off you are. I would never be a proponent of
    going around and telling them that having babies is the way to
    reduce your risk.... I don't want the issue relating to induced
    abortion to breast cancer risk to be part of the mix of the
    discussion of induced abortion, its legality, its continued
    availability." /[10]


Imagine the howls among abortion enthusiasts in the media if a reverse 
scenario had taken place. Pretend that Bernstein had been anti-abortion 
and had said she didn't want women to know there were health benefits 
associated with having an abortion (not that there really are health 
benefits). There would be no end to the doleful wailing among those 
members of the press, and the U.S. National Cancer Institute would 
resemble the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution in 1789.

After hearing that /The Daily Iowan/'s opinion editor had objected to a 
citation from /The Linacre Quarterly/, one physician declared that if 
the facts presented in that journal had been published on a bathroom 
wall, on parchment, on toilet paper or in the /National Enquirer, /they 
would still remain biological facts. If The Daily Iowan's editors had 
bothered to review the secondary references listed at the end of the 
article in /The Linacre Quarterly/, they would have found// studies 
published in medical journals with politically correct names, such as 
the /New England Journal of Medicine/, /Lancet/, /British Journal of 
Cancer/, and /Breast Cancer Research and Treatment/. [8]//

Gude also objected that Curtis used the /Journal of American Physicians 
and Surgeons/ as a source. [9] He told Curtis that the Journal is "a 
political non-profit" (a description that could be be applied to the 
American Medical Association); and he criticized the Journal for 
publishing articles that challenged scientific hypotheses concerning 
global warming and HIV/AIDS. He claimed, 
/
/

    /"It has also published reports claiming 'increases in (atmospheric
    carbon dioxide) during the 20th and 21st centuries have produced no
    deleterious effects upon Earth's weather and climate' and that HIV
    doesn't cause AIDS."/ 


Gude said both the American Cancer Society and the World Health 
Organization deny the abortion-breast cancer link. If Gude had been an 
opinion editor during the 1930's, would he have also rejected a 
commentary discussing Einstein's theory of relativity because 100 
scientists had written essays disparaging it? 

Jane Orient, MD, executive director of the Association of American 
Physicians and Surgeons, commented on Gude's arguments. She wrote:

    /"How can one respond to this kind of attack? It is not a good faith
    assessment. But one might say://
    // //
    //"The validity of a scientific paper should be assessed by reading
    it, not by skimming the table of contents of the journal that
    published it.//
    // //
    //"The Daily Iowan// assumes the truth of the
    catastrophic //anthropogenic global warming// hypothesis, which is
    based solely on UN computer models, the predictions of which are
    refuted by actual observations. Around 32,000 American scientists
    are on the record as agreeing with the statement that The //Daily
    Iowan// quotes. /
     
    /"The Daily Iowan assumes the truth of the HIV/AIDS hypothesis; the
    Journal has published a couple of articles pointing to difficulties
    with it. All scientific hypotheses are subject to efforts to
    disprove them; that is the nature of science.//
    // //
    //"Apparently, the fact that WHO (World Health Organization), a
    heavily politicized international agency, questioned the
    abortion-breast cancer link tells The Daily Iowan it must be not
    worth looking at.//
    // //
    //"This is apparently the reasoning process used by The Daily Iowan:/
     
    /"A peer-reviewed scientific journal's publication of articles
    criticizing politically correct theories means everything in the the
    Journal is worthless.//
    // //
    //"A political agency's criticism of a politically incorrect
    hypothesis about an ABC (abortion-breast cancer) link means that all
    the evidence for an ABC link is worthless.//
    // //
    //"What conclusions can one reach about the //critical thinking
    skills//, the scientific understanding, or the journalistic
    standards of The Daily Iowan?"/


Breast cancer is an extremely common disease, and abortion is a common, 
elective procedure. Under these circumstances, what possible right do 
journalists have to commit journalistic malpractice by ignoring the 
opinion of eight medical organizations that acknowledge that abortion 
raises breast cancer risk, independently of the recognized breast cancer 
risk of abortion - the loss of the protective effect of childbearing?/ /

Consequently, the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is presenting 
the /The Daily Iowan/'s editors with two easy challenges that will help 
them cast light on the cancer fundraising industry's truthfulness. 

First, no expert has ever challenged or even attempted to refute the 
biological basis for the link presented in /The Linacre Quarterly /or 
anywhere else, for that matter. If the editors have a sincere desire to 
protect women's health, then why not ask the American Cancer Society, 
the U.S. National Cancer Institute and Susan G. Komen for the Cure to 
review Dr. Angela Lanfranchi's paper in /The Linacre Quarterly and 
identify any errors?/ Why not challenge them to refute the biological 
reasons for the abortion-breast cancer link? Cancer groups won't do it 
because Lanfranchi's presentation is physiologically correct.

Second, since medical texts acknowledge that childlessness, delayed 
first full term pregnancy and small family size raise breast cancer 
risk, the editors should ask the cancer fundraising industry two simple 
questions with two obvious answers. If a woman aborts all of her 
pregnancies, will she be childless?  Also, who has the greater breast 
cancer risk - the 15-year-old who has an abortion or the one who has a 
full term pregnancy? The second question has to do with the recognized 
breast cancer risk of abortion - the loss of the protective effect of 
childbearing.

Even Dr. Lynn Rosenberg (Boston Medical School), an expert witness for 
Florida abortion providers in 1999 was forced to set aside the cancer 
establishment's intellectual dishonesty when she testified under oath as 
an expert witness for the Center for Reproductive Rights in a lawsuit 
challenging Florida's parental notification law. Preferring not to 
perjure herself by pretending that abortion that abortion does not cause 
women to delay their first full term pregnancies, she said she agreed 
with this statement:

    "A woman who finds herself pregnant at age 15 will have a higher
    breast cancer risk if she chooses to abort that pregnancy than if
    she carries the pregnancy to term, correct?" [11]


Breast cancer increases with age at first full term pregnancy. A delayed 
first full term pregnancy lengthens the period between puberty and first 
full term pregnancy (the "susceptibility window") when nearly all of the 
breast lobules are immature and cancer-susceptible and exposed to the 
cancer-causing effects of estrogen increases during monthly menstrual 
cycles, resulting in an accumulation of the effects of cancer-causing 
substances.

Since the loss of the protective effect of childbearing is considered 
settled science, most studies on the abortion-breast cancer link do not 
compare the effect of having an abortion with the effect of having a 
full term pregnancy. Rather, most studies compare the effect of having 
an abortion with the effect of not having had that pregnancy (thereby 
addressing the question of an independent link - whether abortion 
further raises risk by leaving the breasts with more places for cancers 
to start).  

Certainly, it would be bad social policy to encourage unmarried teens 
and young women to have babies. However, Professor Joel Brind from 
Baruch College, City University of New York, has rightly argued that the 
already-pregnant woman has only two realistic choices. Either she 
aborts, or she has a baby. She doesn't have the choice of never having 
had that pregnancy. Her doctor is ethically and legally obligated to 
obtain informed consent from her before performing an abortion. That 
means telling her that experts agree if she chooses an abortion, her 
risk of developing breast cancer will be greater than it will be if she 
chooses to have a baby(because she is delaying her first full term 
pregnancy). The woman may be able to sue her doctor for medical 
malpractice if he fails to provide her with this minimal information (as 
five women have successfully sued their doctors who failed to warn them 
about the risks of breast cancer and emotional harm). [12]

It takes a special kind of cruelty to cover up a risk that has caused 
1.5 million Americans to develop breast cancer and 300,000 deaths since 
1973 (based on 50 million abortions, a 30% increased risk of breast 
cancer for women with abortions, and a 10% lifetime risk for the average 
American woman without abortion). 

The American Cancer Society, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and other 
cancer groups could have done a great deal of good by telling women the 
truth about the abortion-breast cancer link. Instead, they use studies 
that have been proven in medical journals to be significantly flawed 
(even fraudulent) to make their argument that abortion does not raise 
breast cancer risk. [13-22] 

They didn't tell women the truth about the risks of using the pill and 
combined hormone replacement therapy, although the data were available 
in the 1980s. Now they're not telling women the truth about the 
abortion-breast cancer link. Biased members of the media are their enablers.

*References:*

1. "Recent /DI/ advertising supplement strikingly inaccurate," By Amber 
Fricke and Amy Hirst, /The Daily Iowan/, October 27, 2009. Available 
at: http://www.dailyiowan.com/2009/10/27/Opinions/13910.html?dsq=21109498#disqus_thread

2. Melbye M, Wohlfahrt J, Olson JH, Frisch M, Westergaard T, 
Helweg-Larsen K, Andersen PK. Induced abortion and the risk of breast 
cancer. /N Engl J Med/ 1997;336:81-85.

3. Michels K, Xue Fei, Colditz G., Willett W. Induced and Spontaneous 
Abortion and Incidence of Breast Cancer Among Young Women. /Arch Int 
Med/ 2007;167:814-820.

4. Brind J, Chinchilli VM. Letter. Induced abortion and the risk of 
breast cancer. /N Engl J Med/ 1997;336:1834-1835.

5. Brind J.  Induced abortion and breast cancer: A critical analysis of 
the report of the Harvard Nurses Study II. /J Am Phys 
Surg/ 2007;12(2)38-39. Available at: 
<http://www.jpands.org/vol12no2/brind.pdf>.

6. "Is abortion linked to breast cancer?" American Cancer Society web 
page. Visited November 24, 2009. Available 
at: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_6x_Can_Having_an_Abortion_Cause_or_Contribute_to_Breast_Cancer.asp?sitearea=.

7. Melbye M, Wohlfahrt J, Andersen A-M N, Westergaard T, Andersen PK. 
Preterm delivery and risk of breast cancer. /Bri J Cancer/ 1999;80:609-13.

8. Lanfranchi, A. Normal breast physiology: The reasons hormonal 
contraceptives and induced abortion increase breast cancer risk. /The 
Linacre Quarterly/ 2009;76:236-249. Available 
at:http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/download/LQ_76_3_2_Lanfranchi.pdf

9. Brind J. Induced abortion as an independent risk factor for breast 
cancer: A critical review of recent studies based on prospective 
data. /J Am Phys Surg/ Vol. 10, No. 4 (Winter 2005) 105-110. Available 
at: <http://www.jpands.org/vol10no4/brind.pdf>.

10. Lowe RM, NCI scientific panel concludes abortion has no impact on 
breast cancer risk. CancerPage.com, March 3, 2003.  Available at:

<http://www.cancerpage.com/news/article.asp?id=5601>.  Accessed November 
18, 2009.


11. Rosenberg (1999) NW FL Women's Health vs. State of FL, FL Circuit 
Ct., 2nd circ., videotape deposition of 11/18/99, pp. 77-78. Available 
at: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/rosenberg's_testimony.htm 
<http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/rosenberg%27s_testimony.htm>


12. See the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer's Legal Issues web page 
at: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/Your_Rights.htm


13. Brind J. Breast cancer in relation to abortion: results from the 
EPIC study. I/nt J Cancer/. 2008 Feb 15;122(4):960-1.


14. Brind J. California Teachers Study report on incomplete pregnancy is 
flawed. /Contraception/ 2009;Mar;79(3):240.

15. Brind J. The abortion-breast cancer connection. National Catholic 
Bioethics Quarterly Summer 2005; p. 303-329. Available at: 
<http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com/Brind_NCBQ.PDF 
<http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/Brind_NCBQ.PDF>>.

16./ Lanfranchi A. The abortion-breast cancer link revisited. Ethics and 
Medics (November 2004) Vol. 29, No. 11, p. 1-4.  Available 
at:http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/news/041120/index.htm/

17. Furton E. Editorial. The corruption of science by ideology. Ethics 
and Medics (Dec. 2004) Vol. 29, No. 11, p. 1-2.  Available 
at: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/E+MDec2004-EFurtonarticle.PDF

18. Schlafly A. Legal implications of a link between abortion and breast 
cancer. J Am Phys Surgeons2005;10:11-14. Available 
at:http://www.jpands.org/vol10no1/aschlafly.pdf

19. Lanfranchi A. The science, studies and sociology of the 
abortion-breast cancer link. Research Bulletin 2005;18:1-8. Available 
at: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/June2005.pdf

20. 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

21. Brind J. Induced Abortion and Breast Cancer Risk: A Critical 
Analysis of the Report of the Harvard Nurses Study II. /Journal of 
American Physicians and Surgeons/(Summer 2007) Vol. 12, No. 2, p. 
38-39.  Available at: <http://www.jpands.org/vol12no2/brind.pdf>.

22. Lanfranchi, A. The federal government and academic texts as barriers 
to informed consent. /J Am Phys Surg/ (Spring 2008).  Available at: 
<http://www.jpands.org/vol13no1/lanfranchi.pdf>.


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The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer 
<http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/start> 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.


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