"Human umbilical cord blood is a rich source of the stem and progenitor cells that are also present in bone marrow, and cord blood from related donors has been successfully transplanted in many children worldwide."
From a press release issued by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), October 3, 1996.
Thousands of umbilical cord blood transplants have been performed the world over in the last few years.
Possible Adverse Effects of Abortion II: Breast Cancer, Subsequent Preterm Birth (11/2010)
Just as Tobacco
Industry Denied Scientific Evidence for Decades, So Now the
Abortion/Pharmaceutical Industries Deny Mounting Breast Cancer Link
Readers of our newsletter know that use of oral contraceptives (the
birth control pill) has been implicated as a risk factor for breast
cancer by: 1) the World Health Organization; 2) a 2006 meta-analysis in
the journal, Mayo Clinic Proceedings; and 3) a 2009 study in the
journal, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, which linked the
pill with the deadly triple-negative breast cancer [1-4]
Our readers are also aware that National Cancer Institute branch chief
Dr. Louise Brinton was a co-author in that 2009 study and that she and
her colleagues had included in their study both abortion and the pill as
"known and suspected risk factors" for the disease. [4] They concluded
in unambiguous terms that abortion and [so-called] oral "contraceptives"
were associated with the disease and that their results "were
consistent with the effects observed in previous studies on younger
women." Approximately four dozen epidemiological studies, biological
evidence and animal research implicate abortion as a risk factor for the
disease. [4-15]
Planned Parenthood, nevertheless, remains steadfast in its denial of these cancer risks.
It is behaving in much the same way that the anti-science tobacco industry did during the last half of the 20th century.
The Dayton Daily News reported yesterday that a panel of three
physicians told an audience at a conference on November 13, 2010 in
Oakwood, Ohio that the pill puts women at risk for breast cancer. Lou
Grieco, a reporter for that newspaper, quoted Becki Brenner, president
and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio. She called the breast
cancer risks of the pill and induced abortion "scientifically baseless."
Brenner's denial of the scientific facts in the face of staggering
evidence to the contrary reminds us of Monty Python's Dead Parrot skit.
Actor John Cleese made repeated, frustrated efforts to persuade an
indifferent pet shop owner that a parrot he had purchased was undeniably
deceased until, finally, an exasperated Cleese declared,
"Look, matey.... This parrot has passed on. This parrot is no more. It
has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its Maker. This is a
late parrot. It's a stiff, bereft of life. It rests in peace. If you
hadn't nailed it to a perch, it would be pushing up daisies.... It's
joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!"
The pill and induced abortion are clearly risk factors for breast
cancer, but the risk of massive medical malpractice lawsuits may be
motivating Planned Parenthood and others in the medical establishment to
adopt an anti-science position of denying the evidence. Even worse,
Planned Parenthood is damaging the health of thousands of women.
To read the story in the Dayton Daily News, click on the link below in our Abortion-Breast Cancer News Headlines.
Sincerely,
Karen Malec
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES
"Doctors link contraceptives, breast cancer / Planned Parenthood chief says the claim is a 'distortion of science'"
By Lou Grieco
Dayton Daily News
November 15, 2010
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/doctors-link-contraceptives-breast-cancer-1002948.html
References:
1. Cogliano V, Grosse Y, Baan R, Secretan B, El Ghissassi F.
Carcinogenicity of combined oestrogen-progestagen contraceptives and
menopausal treatment. Lancet Oncology 2005;6:552-553.
2. Press Release No. 167, "IARC Monographs Programme Finds Combined
Estrogen-Progestogen Contraceptives (the "pill") and Menopausal Therapy
Are Carcinogenic to Humans," World Health Organization International
Agency for Research on Cancer, July 29, 2005.
3. Kahlenborn C, Modugno F. Potter D, Severs W. Oral contraceptive use
as a risk factor for premenopausal breast cancer: A meta-analysis. Mayo
Clinic Proceedings 2006;81(10):1290-1302. Available at:
<http://www.polycarp.org>.
4. Dolle J, Daling J, White E, Brinton L, Doody D, et al. Risk factors
for triple-negative breast cancer in women under the age of 45 years.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009;18(4)1157-1166. Available at:
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/download/Abortion_Breast_Cancer_Epid_Bio_Prev_2009.pdf
5. Brind J, Chinchilli V, Severs W, Summy-Long J. Induced abortion as an
independent risk factor for breast cancer: a comprehensive review and
meta-analysis. J Epidemiol Community Health 1996;50:481-496.
6. Brind J. The abortion-breast cancer connection. National Catholic
Bioethics Quarterly Summer 2005; p. 303-329.
<http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com/Brind_NCBQ.PDF>.
7. 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>.
8. Carroll, P. The breast cancer epidemic: modeling and forecasts based
on abortion and other risk factors." J Am Phys Surg Vol. 12, No. 3 (Fall
2007) 72-78. Available at:
<http://www.jpands.org/vol12no3/carroll.pdf>.
9. Naieni KH, Ardalan A, Mahmoodi M, Motevalian A, Yahyapoor Y, et al.
Risk factors of breast cancer in North of Iran: A case-control in
Mazandaran Province. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
2007;8;395-398. Available at:
http://www.apocp.org/cancer_download/Volume8_No3/395-398%20c_Naieni%204.pdf
10. Ozmen V, Ozcinar B, Karanlik H, Cabioglu N, Tukenmez M, et al.
Breast cancer risk factors in Turkish women – a University Hospital
based nested case control study. World J of Surg Oncol 2009;7:37.
Available at: http://wjso.com/content/7/1/37.
11. Xing P, Li J, Jin F. A case-control study of reproductive factors
associated with subtypes of breast cancer in Northeast China. Medical
Oncology, e-publication online September 2009. Available at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19771534.
12. Dolle J, Daling J, White E, Brinton L, Doody D, et al. Risk factors
for triple-negative breast cancer in women under the age of 45 years.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009;18(4)1157-1166. Available at:
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/download/Abortion_Breast_Cancer_Epid_Bio_Prev_2009.pdf
13. De Silva M, Senarath U, Gunatilake M, Lokuhetty D. Prolonged
breastfeeding reduces risk of breast cancer in Sri Lankan women: a
case-control study. Cancer Epidemiol 2010;34(3):267-73. Abstract
available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20338838
14. 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
15. Russo J, Tay TK, Russo IH. Differentiation of the mammary gland and
susceptibility to carcinogenesis. Breast Cancer Res Treat 1982;2:5-73.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer -- http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/
Breast Cancer Prevention Institute -- http://www.bcpinstitute.org/
Polycarp Research Institute -- http://www.polycarp.org/
This newsletter can be viewed online by clicking here -- http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/news/101116.htm
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[Dayton Daily News: "Doctors link contraceptives, breast cancer" November 16, 2010]
Abortion Linked to Preterm Birth, But Why Aren't Women Being Told?
November is Prematurity Awareness Month, dedicated by activists to
highlighting the risks of and impact created by preterm birth.
According to the March of Dimes, more than half a million babies are born prematurely in the United States alone each year. Yet
most people -- including women at risk of abortion and their loved ones
-- are unaware that abortion has been linked to an increased risk of
preterm birth among subsequently born babies.
[ED. Why doesn't the March of Dimes inform women of this obvious link?]
In a paper published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 2009, a Canadian research team examined data from 37 studies and found that having
a prior abortion increased the risk of subsequent preterm birth by 35
percent, while having more than one prior abortion increased the risk by
93 percent.1
(Preterm birth is defined as a birth that takes place before 37 weeks gestation.)
In other words, children whose mothers had a previous abortion were more
likely to be born prematurely, putting them at greater risk for
problems such as low-birth weight (which has been linked to physical and
developmental problems), epilepsy, autism, mental retardation2 and
cerebral palsy.
A research team looking at
data from 2002 estimated that prior abortions led to 1,096 cases of
cerebral palsy among babies born prematurely that year.3
There are risks to the mother with preterm birth as well, as other
studies have found that women who give birth at less than 32 weeks
double their lifetime risk of breast cancer.4
Evidence linking abortion and preterm birth continues to pile up,
researchers and advocates say. Another paper published in 2009 found
that found that having a previous abortion raised a woman's relative
odds of having a subsequent birth at less than 32 weeks by 64 percent.5
Further, as far back as 2006 the Institute of Medicine included "prior
first trimester abortion" on a list of risk factors associated with
premature birth.6
However, as Brent Rooney, Director of Research for the Reduce Preterm
Birth Coalition, has pointed out, abortions continue to be performed
despite the strong evidence of risks—and in the absence of any evidence
showing the procedure to be harmless.
"In the 'Court of Medicine' a 'defendant' new surgery or new drug is
presumed guilty of serious adverse side effects until by strong evidence
it is demonstrated to be innocent," Rooney noted. Yet 50 years after
the development of the suction abortion procedure, he said, there has
never been a "'study of studies' or systematic review" that has proven
that abortion does not cause premature birth. Instead, the evidence
seems to be pointing in the opposite direction.
And even as the evidence linking abortion and preterm birth continues to
pile up, women and their loved ones are not being told of the risks.
The result is that women and girls will end up undergoing abortions
without having the information needed to make a decision--which is a
form of coercion. And it puts the mothers, their unborn children and any
future children they may have at risk.
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Learn more: Access the world's most extensive online library of studies
on the physical and psychological effects of abortion at www.AbortionRisks.org LifeNews.com Note: Amy Sobie is the editor of The Post-Abortion
Review, a quarterly publication of the Elliot Institute. The
organization is a widely respected leader in research and analysis of
medical, mental health and other complications resulting from
abortions.
http://www.lifenews.com/2010/11/25/opi-1020/
Citations
1. P.S. Shah and J. Zao, "Induced termination of pregnancy and low
birthweight and preterm birth: a systematic review and meta-analysis,"
BJOG 116(11): 1425-1442 (2009).
2. Barbara Kay, "The abortion issue we're ignoring," National Post, June 10, 2009.
3. B.C. Calhoun, E. Shadigan and B. Rooney, "Cost Consequences of
Induced Abortion as an Attributable Risk for Preterm Brith and Informed
Consent," Journal of Reproductive Medicine 52(10): 929-937 (2007).
4. M. Melbye et. al., "Preterm Delivery and risk of breast cancer,"
British Journal of Cancer, 80(3-4): 609-613 (1999); and K.E. Innes and
T.E. Byers, "First pregnancy characteristics and subsequent breast
cancer risk among young women," International Journal of Cancer, 112(2):
306-311 (2004).
5. H.M. Swingle et. al., " Abortion and the Risk of Subsequent Preterm
Birth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," Journal of Reproductive
Medicine 54:95-108 (2009).
6. R.E. Behrman et. al., Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences and Prevention (Washington, D.C., National Academies Press, 2007).
[Nov. 23, 2010, www.theunchoice.com, Springfield, IL, http://www.theunchoice.com/articles/pretermbirth.htm]
[25 Nov 2010, Amy Sobie, Springfield, IL, http://www.lifenews.com/2010/11/25/opi-1020/]
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