Abortion/Breast Cancer—No link at all? You Decide!
INFebruary of 2003, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) claimed that no significant link
had been found between abortion and the incidence of breast cancer. Most known risk
factors for breast cancer are attributable to estrogen overexposure. The U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services in the 11th Report on Carcinogens (Jan. 2005) listed steroidalestrogens as a “known” human carcinogen (http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov. “‘Estrogens, Steroidal’
was first listed in the 10th Report on Carcinogens in 2002). In a healthy pregnancy, a woman’sblood estrogen level rises by 2000% by the end of the first trimester. Terminating that pregnancy
prematurely leaves high levels of estrogen in the body, thereby making abortion a highly suspected risk. Considering the high incidence of both abortion and breast cancer, the numerous
SUCTION ASPIRATION
studies and reviews which report a significant association, and the numbers of advocates (on
The abortionist inserts a hollow plastic suction tube
both sides of the abortion debate) for informing women of the potential risk, Human Life Alliance
into the dilated cervix. The uterus is emptied by a high-powered suction machine. The baby’s body is
encourages its readers to obtain more information. The following websites are recommended:
torn as he/she is being pulled through the hose.
www.bcpinstitute.org; www.abortionbreastcancer.com; www.etters.net/cancerTP.htm. DILATATION AND EVACUATION Used after 12 weeks. Once the cervix is dilated considerably further than in first trimester abortions, the abortionist inserts a narrow forceps that resembles a pliers. This instrument is needed because the baby’s
“Emergency Contraception” An Advertising Deception bones are calcified, as is the skull. The abortionist
THE CAMPAIGN to make “Emergency Contraception” allow the sperm to fertilize the egg to produce a newly inserts the instrument into the uterus, seizes a leg
(EC) available over-the-counter with its slogan “Back
formed individual and then act to inhibit the embryo
or other part of the body and, with a twisting motion,
up your Birth Control with EC”, is deceiving women
tears it from the baby’s body. The spine is snapped andthe skull crushed. Body parts are then reassembled
regarding EC’s action and the risks related to its use. It
Consequently, the woman’s body rejects the tiny
and counted to make certain that the entire baby has
exacerbates what feminist Germaine Greer calls, “the
embryo and he or she dies and is eliminated in the next
been removed and that no parts remain in the womb.
cynical deception of women by selling abortifacients as
menstrual cycle. This is called a chemical abortion.
if they were contraceptives,” a deception she finds
Anything capable of inducing or causing an abortion is
PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION (D&X)
“incompatible with the respect due to women as human
more than a “contraceptive”—it can be an abortifacient.
After three days of preparations, the abortionist
beings.” Some of the deceptive claims we hear are:
places an ultrasound transducer on the mother’sabdomen and locates the child’s legs and feet. The
CLAIM: EC IS “SAFE.”
abortionist then uses a large forceps to grasp one of
FACT: Some of the documented adverse reactions/side the baby’s legs. He pulls firmly, forcing the child into effects of the well-known EC, Plan B, include: nausea,
vomiting, abdominal pain, fatigue, headache, menstrual
Using his hands instead of forceps, the abortionist
changes, dizziness, and breast tenderness.
delivers the baby’s body in a manner similar to abreech birth. The baby’s head remains inside the
CLAIM: EASY ACCESS TO EC WILL REDUCE THE birth canal. NUMBER OF SURGICAL ABORTIONS.
The last step involves using surgical scissors
to pierce the child’s head at the base of the skull. The
FACT: EC has been readily available in Scotland for abortionist forces the scissors open to enlarge the
years, but teen pregnancy and abortion rates have skull opening. He/she then inserts a suction catheter
into the brain and vacuums out the child’s brain tissuewith a machine 28 times more powerful than a
CLAIM: INCREASED ACCESS TO EC WILL NOT household vacuum. INCREASE PROMISCUITY. FACT: RU-486 - MIFEPREX
A report from Scotland suggests two causes for
Mifeprex blocks the action of the hormone progesterone,
both the high use of EC and the increase in abortions:
which is needed to maintain the lining of the uterus
“more unpremeditated sexual activity” and “more failures
providing oxygen and nutrients for the embryo.
in contraception with increased use of condoms.” The
Without it, the baby dies. Mifeprex is used in conjunction
report also notes an “alarming rise” in sexually transmitted
with the drug Cytotec (misoprostol) which is taken
CLAIM: EC DOES NOT END A PREGNANCY; IT WON’T diseases paralleling greater use of EC.
two days after Mifeprex, causing uterine bleeding
WORK IF YOU’RE PREGNANT.
It is worth noting that the birth control pill causes
(sometimes profuse), strong contractions, and
FACT: On the contrary, one of the actions of EC is to alter 150 different chemical changes in the woman’s body. This expulsion of the baby. the lining of the uterus and thereby end a pregnancy by
fact is documented in the Textbook of Contraception by
The pregnant woman first visits the abortionist to
inhibiting the implantation of the embryo. Since EC can
Malcom Potts, Director of Planned Parenthood of
obtain three Mifeprex pills, returns two days later to
prevent a developing embryo from implanting in the
England (Cambridge Press, 1983, p. 144).
receive misoprostol, and a third time to verify that the
womb, its effect frequently “is to kill a tiny human
abortion is complete. The failure rate of this method isabout 8% if the pills are taken within 7 weeks and up
being,” said Dr. John C. Willke, president of the Life
Based on an article by Susan Wills, “Deconstructing
to 25% at 8-9 weeks. If the baby survives the abortion,
Issues Institute in Cincinnati. “It is a very, very early
there is an extremely high risk that he or she will suffer
abortive drug.” (Washington Times Jan. 2, 2002)
mental and/or physical birth defects from the Cytotec.
EC, also known as the morning-after-pill, is a high
dosage of the birth control pill. Almost all birth controlpills, drugs (such as RU-486) and devices, except thecondom, are abortifacient in nature; that is, they may
Your Body, Your Health, Your Peace of Mind
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