Study Shows Having More Children Lowers the Risk from the Breast Cancer Gene

Planned Parenthood Opens an "Express Clinic" in MN

CDC: American Men Father Children Early 

STUDY SHOWS HAVING MORE CHILDREN LOWERS RISK FROM BREAST CANCER GENE. An international study has shown that having more than one child dramatically lowers the chance of developing cancer for women carrying breast cancer gene mutations. The International BRCA1/2 Carrier Cohort Study (IBCCS) examined the effect of pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding on women with cancer-causing mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, who have an increased risk of developing breast cancer. The study, reported in Medical News Today, found that while one pregnancy and birth had no effect on subsequent cancer development for those carrying the mutant genes, a woman's risk of developing breast cancer was lowered substantially when she had more than one child.

Breast cancer rates in women over age 40 dropped 14 per cent with every additional child born. The study also found a difference in cancer development based on the timing of a woman's first child. Women carrying the BRCA2 mutation doubled their risk of developing cancer when they had their first child after age 20, compared to those who gave birth before age 20. For women carrying the BRCA1 mutation, the opposite was true: women who delayed the birth of their first child until after age 30 lowered their risk of developing breast cancer.
Participants in the study all carried a breast cancer gene mutation. 853 had developed breast cancer.
The IBCCS study was carried out by researchers in France, the U.K., the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Canada. The German Cancer Research Center, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), played a key role in the study. [Medical News Today, 31May06,Gudrun Schultz, LifeSiteNews.com]

US STATE DEPARTMENT SUCCUMBS TO HOMOSEXUAL PRESSURE IN UN VOTE. A coalition of radical homosexual groups put heavy pressure on the Bush Administration to change its vote to allow UN accreditation of homosexual groups seeking UN recognition. Though they were unsuccessful in gaining accreditation for the groups, they are claiming credit on their websites for getting the US to change what was a no vote to a yes. The UN committee on non-governmental organizations has rejected two gay rights groups for "consultative status" with the UN Economic and Social Council. Rejected were the Lesbian and Gay Federation of Germany and the International Lesbian and Gay Association of Europe. Voting in favor of rejecting the groups were Cameroon, China, Côte d'Ivoire, Iran, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Senegal, Sudan and Zimbabwe. Voting against rejecting the groups were Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Peru, Romania and the United States. India and Turkey abstained. Last January, the United States voted against granting official UN status to ILGA and Danish Association of Gays and Lesbians. However, in a marked reversal, this time the United States voted against rejecting the applications of ILGA-Europe and the Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany. [26May, Friday Fax] Claiming credit for the change in US policy are Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Campaign, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Committee (IGLHRC). "The United States' anti-gay vote was shocking. We are glad that the Administration heard our concern and reversed its position," said Paula Ettelbrick, IGLHRC executive director. Last January, the United States voted against granting official UN status to the Danish Association of Gays and Lesbians and to the International Gay and Lesbian Association, a group charged with allowing pedophile groups in its membership. After that vote, a coalition of homosexual groups initiated a lobbying campaign and sent a letter to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice demanding an explanation of the US position. Homosexual activists also met with the members of the US delegation at the Commission on Human Rights in Switzerland to voice their anger. Philipp Braun, the co-secretary general of ILGA, stated, "We are satisfied, though - ILGA's campaign to support its member groups in their application for ECOSOC and have homosexuality and gender identity come out at the UN is going well and has forced this committee to engage a dialoge on our issues." Braun is urging other gay groups to apply for status at the UN, stating, "It will be interesting to see how the NGO committee will react then."
Homosexual groups are becoming more active at the UN as annually they pressure the UN Human Rights Commission to include homosexuality in the interpretation and implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This would result in hate crimes charges being brought against Christian and others who oppose the homosexual agenda. The initiative has lost many years in a row owing largely to the Muslim countries.
Thomas Jacobson, the UN representative for Focus on the Family Action, said, "We commend the countries that successfully opposed the homosexual-rights groups. But we are disappointed that the Bush administration, after opposing such groups seeking NGO status for five years, changed its position." C-Fam: "We report further on the disturbing development that the Bush Administration voted in favor of accrediting radical homosexual groups at the United Nations. Social conservatives are deeply disturbed with this change in policy." [2June06, Friday Fax, C-FAM, Samantha Singson, Volume 9, Number 24 ]

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OPENS "EXPRESS CLINIC" IN MN.  "What the news failed to tell you is that wherever Planned Parenthood opens, serious problems arise; abortion rates, sexually transmitted deceases, teen sexual activity and teen pregnancy rates all increase.  And the answer Planned Parenthood has for these increases is more of the same. This "Express Clinic" will not have a doctor when teenage children are given powerful prescription drugs and undergo medical exams.  Planned Parenthood will dispense contraceptives and teach minor children to engage in sexual activity without parental knowledge.  And if parents object to Planned Parenthood's agenda with their children, the parents will be simply kept out of any involvement. Whether you can make it to the rally or not, please call the Woodbury mayor's office and express your concerns regarding Planned Parenthood.  Let him know that you are against Planned Parenthood's controversial sex clinic in Woodbury!" [Brian Gibson - Pro-Life Action Ministries (http://www.plam.org/), Mayor William Hargis, 1288 Kenilworth Court, Woodbury, MN 55125, (651) 739-1040]

AMERICAN MEN FATHER CHILDREN EARLY, CDC STUDY FINDS. Nearly half of U.S. men without a high school education have fathered a child outside of marriage, compared to about 6 percent of college graduates, according to a survey released on Wednesday.  The survey, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics includes detailed information on sex, marriage and parenthood from young men for the first time. It finds that 47 percent of men and 58 percent of women aged 15 to 44 have ever had a child, inside or outside marriage. Premarital sex is OK, according to the 60 percent of men in this age group who agreed or strongly agreed that it was "all right for unmarried 18-year-olds to have sexual relations if they have strong affection for each other." Fifty-one percent of women and girls aged 15 to 44 approved of premarital sex at the age of 18. The study is based on a analysis of the National Survey of Family Growth conducted in 2002 among 7,643 females and 4,928 males.
It found that 77 percent of men had sexual intercourse before the age of 20, and close to 30 percent by age 16. The in-person survey found one-third of men marry by the age of 25 and almost two-thirds marry by 30. Half of women are married by the time they are 25 and three-quarters by age 30 and they tend to marry men who are, on average, two years older. The report found that 50 percent of young men who married before the age of 20 ended up divorced within 10 years compared with 17 percent of men who married at 26 years or older. And about 70 percent of men and women who were currently living together but not married thought there was a "pretty good" or "almost certain" chance that they would marry their current partner. Young black men were twice as likely as whites to father a child young -- 25 percent of non-Hispanic black fathers had their first child before they were 20, compared to 19 percent of Hispanic fathers and 11 percent of non-Hispanic white men. But the young men often step up to the responsibility -- close to 75 percent of the 28 million men who father children before age 19 live with their children.
Based on what the fathers said, 65 percent of babies born in the five years before the survey were wanted at the time of conception, 25 percent were mistimed, and 9 percent were unwanted at the time of conception. "According to women's reports, 65 percent of births in the five years before the survey were wanted at the time of conception, 21 percent were mistimed, and 14 percent were unwanted," according to the report, published at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs. [31May06, Reuters, Maggie Fox,hhttp://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-05-31T190849Z_01_N31242565_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-FATHERS-USA.xml&src=rss&rpc=22]USA.xml&src=rss&rpc=22ttp://today.reuters.com/news/newsaSA.xml&src=rss&rpc=22