[Pflienews] PFLI PharmFacts E-News Update: Pill Kills protest June 5th; FDA approved abortifacient Narazia by Bayer; more...

Mon May 17 15:35:24 MDT 2010

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*The Pill kills the environment!
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*Saturday, June 5 is Protest the Pill Day! PFLI is a co-sponsor of this 
event with ALL. We have had member participation the last two years but 
need more involvement...can you participate this year?*

Interested in GOING GREEN? Then protest the birth control pill and help 
save our environment! Join American Life League in the largest annual 
protest against the abortifacient birth control pill and similar birth 
control products. Locations to protest include: PP facilities, other 
abortion killing centers, pharmacies and others.

Scientists around the world have discovered that high amounts of 
estrogen, resulting from use of hormonal contraceptives, are now 
entering our water and are feminizing male fish!  *The World Health 
Organization [and the CDC] has listed combined [so-called] oral 
contraceptives as a Group 1 carcinogen 
<http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Classification/crthgr01.php> - meaning 
[highly] carcinogenic to humans. *

*"[So-called] oral contraceptives are on the same list as asbestos, 
tobacco, benzene, arsenic, cadmium and combined hormone replacement 
therapy." -- Karen Malec, ABC Coalition*

For more information, go to www.ThePillKills.com 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=18096&N=803&L=1085&F=H> or contact PFLI 
Headquarters <maito:pfli at pfli.org>!

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FOR 50TH ANNIVERSARY, DOCTOR EXPOSES PILL'S 'DIRTY LITTLE SECRET'

* <http://all.org/newsroom_judieblog.php?id=3046>
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*Washington, DC (17 May 2010)* -- /The following is a letter written by 
Dr. Chris Kahlenborn on the 50^th anniversary of the birth control pill. 
Dr. Kahlenborn, coauthor of "Oral Contraceptive Use as a Risk Factor for 
Pre-menopausal Breast Cancer:  A Meta-analysis" (Mayo Clinic 
Proceedings, October, 2006), practices internal medicine in Altoona, 
Pennsylvania. Dr. Kahlenborn is available for interviews upon request./

    *The Pill After 50 Years: The Dirty Little Secret*

    *By Chris Kahlenborn M.D.
    *

    I find it disturbing that after nearly 50 years, both the media and
    the medical establishment have failed to give a true airing to one
    of the pill's most dangerous side effects, namely, that "dirty
    little secret."   What's that? One need only check the /Mayo Clinic
    Proceedings/---the major medical publication of the Mayo Clinic---to
    find our little-known study, which showed that the pill increases
    the risk of premenopausal breast cancer substantially when taken at
    a young age (see /Mayo Clinic Proceedings/: October 3, 2006
    <http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=809&L=5578&F=H>).

    In October 2006, we reviewed the medical literature and combined
    data in an analysis (referred to as a meta-analysis): We found that
    21 out of 23 studies showed that using oral contraceptives prior to
    a woman's first birth resulted in a 44 percent increased risk in
    premenopausal breast cancer. Our meta-analysis remains the most
    recent study in this area and updates the previously analysis (the
    Oxford analysis published in 1996), which relied on older data with
    older women (two-thirds of whom were over age 45); unfortunately,
    the Oxford study continues to be quoted by ACOG, textbooks, the
    National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society and most
    researchers and obstetricians, claiming that oral contraceptives
    carry little breast cancer risk especially 10 years after last use.

    I continue to be amazed at the discordance between the medical
    literature and public/medical awareness. To my dismay, after our
    meta-analysis was published, the Mayo Clinic sent out a press
    release to all major media in the country. The response? (         
    ).  The blank space between the parentheses is purposeful.

    Although our meta-analysis received scant internet coverage, almost
    no major media covered this study, which is shocking, given the fact
    that about 40,000 women in the U.S. get premenopausal breast cancer
    annually, oral contraceptives are an elective risk factor and our
    study is the most recent meta-analysis to date on the oral
    contraceptive-breast cancer link. 

    In addition to our meta-analysis, it's important to note that the
    World Health Organization classified oral contraceptives as a Class
    I carcinogen in 2005---the most dangerous classification. Even more
    data has come forth recently in a paper by several researchers---one
    of whom is a major researcher of the National Cancer
    Institute---which not only cited our meta-analysis, but found that
    oral contraceptives increase the risk of triple-negative breast
    cancer in women under 40 by 320 percent (triple-negative breast
    cancers are extremely aggressive). (/Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers
    & Prevention/, April 2009
    <http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=809&L=5564&F=H>.)

    Few in the medical establishment or the public are aware of this
    data, or if they are, young women almost never hear about them. It's
    been almost four years since the publication of our study in the
    /Mayo Clinic Proceedings/
    <http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=809&L=5555&F=H>; I am
    beginning to think that our study has been effectively "buried." 

    Breast cancer and the pill---that dirty little secret? Some day
    perhaps someone in the media and/or medical establishment will dust
    a little dirt off those pink ribbons and let young women hear all
    the facts so they can finally make truly informed decisions.

*FOR MORE INFORMATION:

American Life League:* The Pill's Dirty Little Secret (14 May 2010)
http://all.org/newsroom_judieblog.php?id=3046 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=809&L=5577&F=H>

*Mayo Clinic Proceedings:* Oral Contraceptive Use as a Risk Factor for 
Premenopausal Breast Cancer:A Meta-analysis (October 2006)
http://mayoclinicproceedings.com/content/81/10/1290.full.pdf+html 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=809&L=5578&F=H>

*Polycarp Research Institute:* Oral Contraceptive Use as a Risk Factor 
for Premenopausal Breast Cancer:A Meta-analysis (October 2006)
http://www.polycarp.org/ 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=809&L=5556&F=H>

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*/FDA approves Natazia birth control pill from Bayer/*
The FDA has just granted approval to a new birth control pill, Natazia, 
manufactured by Bayer. 
http://www.dbtechno.com/health/2010/05/07/fda-approves-natazia-birth-control-pill-from-bayer/ 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=808&L=5571&F=H>

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/Hormonal birth control pill reduces women's sexual function: study/*
At the same time as the hormonal birth control pill turns 50, 
researchers have found a link between it and sexual dysfunction in the 
women who take it.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/may/10050701.html 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=808&L=5498&F=H>

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*/*Birth control pill creates two legacies*
/One of the unintended consequences of the pill is that it changed the 
relationship between men and women in a way that did not benefit women: 
Both unplanned pregnancies and unwed childbearing remain common, despite 
the pill.  The pill was one of a "confluence of factors" that led to the 
breakdown of the American family and hypersexualization of the culture. 
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/11/wetzstein-birth-control-pill-creates-2-legacies/ 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=808&L=5565&F=H>

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*/*New spending for a wider range of sex education*
/The new health care law pours hundreds of millions of dollars into sex 
education programs that aim to provide teenagers with comprehensive 
information about protecting themselves from pregnancy and sexually 
transmitted diseases.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/health/policy/11land.html 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=808&L=5567&F=H>

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/Vaccine-wary parents guarded over new pitch to boys/*
For parents already uneasy about vaccinating their children, the news 
that the maker of Gardasil recently began promoting its HPV shots to 
boys as young as nine is prompting yet another round of internal debate. 
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-met-hpv-vaccine-boys-20100506,0,7399839.story 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=808&L=5572&F=H>

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/Wisconsin facility asserts continued interest in late-term abortions, 
vague on location/*
The health system for the University of Wisconsin, UW Health, is denying 
that it has abandoned its intent to begin late-term abortions - a denial 
apparently meant to contradict a communication from the Wisconsin state 
Attorney General's office.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/may/10050609.html 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=808&L=5570&F=H>

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/New study "Follows the Money" of abortion/*
Legal abortion in the United States is a billion-dollar industry, and 
one new study says that the tentacles of legal abortion have already 
reached deep into the commerce and culture of American life, and that 
motives for profit may be keeping it alive.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/may/10050711.html 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=808&L=5569&F=H>

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/Free iPad pregnancy app reveals development of preborn baby/*
Pro-lifers have often struggled to counter the assertion that unborn 
babies are "just a clump of cells" that look nothing like human beings. 
Now, they have one more method to help show the truth: an application 
for the iPad that displays images of unborn babies from week four to 
week 40.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/may/10051001.html 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=808&L=5568&F=H>

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