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Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer Criticizes Supreme Court's Refusal
to Hear Lawsuit

10/19/2004 1:46:00 PM

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To: National Desk

Contact: Karen Malec of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer,
877-803-0102

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Oct. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Coalition on
Abortion/Breast Cancer deplores the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to
hear a false advertising lawsuit against Planned Parenthood. (1) Three
plaintiffs in the case accused Planned Parenthood of making misleading
representations concerning the safety of abortion and the evidence
linking abortion with increased breast cancer risk.

The state court dismissed the case on the basis of California's
Anti-SLAPP statute (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation).
The court inaccurately alleged there was insufficient scientific
evidence and claimed the "plaintiffs did not have reasonable
probability of success."

In their appeal to the Supreme Court, the plaintiffs claimed the
statute violated first amendment rights. The Supreme Court's refusal
to hear the case doesn't address the merits of the science.

"The court's decision is a miscarriage of justice," asserted Karen
Malec, president of the coalition. "Women have the right to know the
truth. Tragically, Pamela Colip, one of two plaintiffs who'd had an
abortion, developed breast cancer last year."

There are recognized and contested breast cancer risks of abortion.
Joel Brind, professor of endocrinology at Baruch College, provided an
affidavit discussing one recognized risk. He said:

"... having a first full-term pregnancy before age 30 is protective
against breast cancer, while aborting the pregnancy results in the
loss of this protective effect. Research shows that even a one year
delay of the first full-term pregnancy (including through abortion)
results in an increased risk of death from breast cancer about ten
times greater than the death rate associated with childbirth, which
has been estimated by the American Medical Association at 9.1 maternal
deaths per 100,000 live births. If first childbirth is delayed by more
than one year after the abortion, the risk of breast cancer (and
therefore of death from breast cancer) is correspondingly greater."
(2)

American women generally use abortion to delay a first birth.
Abortions that occur before a first full term pregnancy or during
adolescence when the breasts are still maturing are highly
carcinogenic. (3,4) Estrogen overexposure starting early in a normal
pregnancy causes normal and cancer-vulnerable cells to multiply.
Estrogen can damage DNA. (5,6) However, women who have more children
have a reduced risk because a third trimester process matures breast
tissue into cancer-resistant tissue. (7,8)

"The abortion and the cancer fundraising industries value abortion and
making money more than our lives," lamented Malec. "They've protected
political careers and kept women in the dark about the research for a
half-century. The writing is on the wall. If society can't overcome
its love affair with abortion, then we'll see our daughters die from
this disease too."

Six medical groups recognize research showing that an abortion leaves
a woman with more places in her breasts for cancer to start. (9)

Last year, a Pennsylvania woman won the nation's first malpractice
settlement against an abortionist who failed to warn his patient about
the risks of breast cancer and emotional harm. (10)

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer 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.

For a list of references, see http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com for
the complete press release.