WICHITA, KS, September 25, 2004 — Armed with two colorful 15-foot banners that flanked runners in Wichita’s annual Susan G. Komen “Race for the Cure,” Operation Rescue members distributed literature and exposed the link between abortion and breast cancer.
Unlike previous years, the rescuers were able to freely communicate their message without interference from race officials or police. The Susan G. Komen Foundation, which sponsors similar races across America, is a large contributor to Planned Parenthood, the world’s largest abortion provider. In the past, the Komen group has attempted to exclude and censor Operation Rescue?s message that abortion is the most preventable risk factor for developing breast cancer.
Last year, Rescuer Brian Brooks was arrested while attempting to use a port-a-potty that was at the event site for public use. Brooks was not carrying signs or literature at the time. He was later totally exonerated of all charges during a bench trial. Operation Rescue representatives met with police prior to this year’s event and were able to gain police cooperation for their First Amendment outreach.
“We were pleased with the cooperation from the Wichita Police Department this year,” said OR President Troy Newman. “We were able to get our message out to thousands of people peacefully and effectively – a message desperately needed in America’s Abortion Capital.”
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it’s truly amazing that on one hand, this group is ostensibly trying to prevent and/or find a cure for breast cancer, but on the other hand, they give huge sums of money to the world’s largest provider of abortion, planned parenthood.
how they can claim to be prowoman in the face of this schizophrenia is beyond me….
i would urge anyone who wants to prevent and/or find a cure for breast cancer to give their time, energy and money to the following group, which is totally dedicated to the truth on this issue:
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com
After enduring 29 years of post-abortive anguish, it is very troubling to think that I may now be at a higher risk for cancer. However, that shouldn’t prevent ORW and other concerned citizens from seeking to inform the consciences and hearts of others – and doing so peaceably – without police interference. Thus, I’m pleased that this year’s event occurred without incident. If there is indeed a breast cancer-abortion causative link, women deserve to know this.
I can speak, with a considerable degree of authority, about the emotional assault abortion can enact upon a woman. But I had not considered the potentiality for physical aftermath. Suffice it to say that I’m concerned…..I’m grateful to be informed….and I’m mad as hell. I’m angry that the father of my aborted child isn’t suffering any angst (be it physical or emotional) for the destruction he’s caused to me and many others. Yet, what could I reasonably expect from someone who once concurred with John Lennon’s assertion that “women should be obscene and not heard.”
And I’m reminded – and comforted – by the words of Pope John Paul II: “As it is women who bear the greater burden for bearing children – and the greatest grief for their destruction – we must stand in solidarity with the woman.”
I’m pleased that the Wichita police allowed ORW to share their message of concern and hope, as it is vitally important that they do so.
For anyone interested, here is a partial list of various epidemiological & other studies linking induced abortion with breast cancer. It’s a little dated — there are 24 here; but this is from Mark Crutcher’s book LIME5, published in 1996; I understand that the number of independent, worldwide, studies indicating such a link is now 29. (The book is still an excellent expose of the American abortion industry, and available at Lifedynamics.com)
Study 1. There was a higher rate of both spontaneous and induced abortions among breast cancer patients; increased risk ranged from 100 percent to 400 percent among the different subgroups. — M. Segi, I. Fukushima; M. Kurihara; “An Epidemiological Study of Cancer in Japan,” GANN, Vol. 48 (1957)
Study 2. More Israeli women who terminated pregnancies in the first trimester developed breast cancer than did the control group. — H.L. Stewart and L.J. Dunham, “Epidemiology of Cancer of the Uterine Cervix and Corpus, Breast and Ovary in Israel and New York City,” Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 37 (1966)
Study 3. “There was a significant excess of [cancer] cases reporting one or more abortions.” — S. Yuasa and B. McMahon, “Lactation and Reproductive Histories of Breast-Cancer Patients in Tokyo, Japan,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Vol. 42 (1970)
Study 4. Women with one or more abortions had a cancer risk 50 percent higher than that of women who have not had an abortion; with two or more abortions, the risk rose to 100 percent. — T.M. Lin; K.P. Chen; B. McMahon, “Epidemiological
Characteristics of Cancer in the Breast in Taiwan,” Cancer, Vol. 27 (1970)
Study 5. In Brazil, more breast cancer patients reported having had abortions than did the control group. — P. Mirra; P. Cole; B. McMahon, “Breast Cancer in an Area of High Parity,” Cancer Resources, Vol. 31, (1971)
Study 6. Thirty-seven percent of patients who developed breast cancer after menopause have had at least one abortion, while only 27 percent of women with other cancers reported having had an abortion. — K. Stavarky and S. Emmons,
“Breast Cancer in Pre-Menopausal and Post-Menopausal Women,” Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 53 (1974)
Study 7. The rate of breast cancer among women in Finland increased with the number of abortions. — I. Soini, “Risk Factors of Breast Cancer in Finland,” International Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 6 (1977)
Study 8. Women whose pregnancies lasted four months or less showed a statistically significant increase in breast cancer. — N.W. Choi; G.R. Howe; A.B. Miller; V. Matthews; R.W. Morgan; L. Munan; J.D. Burch; J. Feather; M. Jain; A. Kelly, “An Epidemiologic Study of Breast Cancer,” American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 107 (1978)
Study 9. A case-controlled study in the North Caucasus, Soviet Union, found an increased risk of 240 percent in women with three or more induced abortions. With one or two induced abortions, the increase in risk was 100 percent. —V.V. Dvoirin and A.B. Medvedev, “The Role of Reproductive History in Breast Cancer Causation,” Methods and Results of Studies of Breast Cancer Epidemiology, Tallinn, Estonia (in Russian) (1978)
Study 10.“Pregnancies of less than four to five months duration may be associated with an increased risk.” — J.L.Kelsey, “A Review of the Epidemiology of Human Breast Cancer,” Epidemiology Review, Vol 1 (1979)
Study 11. First-trimester abortion of first pregnancies led to increased risk of 140 percent among women under 32 years of age. — M.C. Pike; B.E. Henderson; J.T. Casagrande; I Rosario; G.E.Gray; “Oral Contraceptive Use and Early Abortion as Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Young Women,” British Journal of Cancer, Vol. 43 (1981)
Study 12. Raw numbers in this study nearly duplicate findings of Study 11, completed two years earlier.—L. A. Brinton; R. Hoover; J.F. Fraumeni, Jr., “Reproductive Factors in the Aetiology of Breast Cancer,” British Journal of Cancer, Vol. 47 (1983)
Study 13. Women with one abortion had twice as many recurrences of cancer as those with none; women with two or more abortions had three times as many recurrences of cancer. — H.E. Ownby; S. Martino; L.D. Roi; L. Howard; J. Russo; S. Brooks; M.J. Brennan, “Interrupted Pregnancy as One Indicator of Poor Prognosis in t1, T2, No, Mo Primary Breast Cancer,” Breast Cancer Resources and Treatment, Vol. 3 (1983)
Study 14. The risk of developing breast cancer was 52 percent higher among women with an induced abortion than for women who had no abortions. — T. Hirohata, T. Shigematsu, A.M.Y. Nomura, “Occurrence of Breast Cancer in Relation to Diet and Reproductive History: A Case-Control Study in Fukuoka, Japan,” National Cancer Institutute, Vol. 69 (1985)
Study 15. Abortion before a first live birth, after adjusting for other known risk factors, increased the risk of developing breast cancer by 250 percent. — O.C. Hadjimichael, C.A. Boyle, J.W. Meigs, “Abortion Before First Live Birth and Risk of Breast Cancer,” British Journal of Cancer, Vol. 53 (1986)
Study 16. The risk among Italian women with one or more legal abortions before a first live birth was increased to 42 percent.– C. LaVecchia; A. Decarli; F. Parazzini, A. Gentile, E. NEgri, G. Cechetti; S. Francesci, “General Epidemiology of Breast Cancer in Northern Italy,” International Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 16 (1987)
Study 17. The termination of a first pregnancy before 28 weeks increased the risk of cancer by 43 percent; two or more abortions before the first full pregnancy increased the risk by 73 percent; on induced abortion with no live births
increased the risk by 285 percent. — M. Ewertz; S.W. Duffy, “Risk of Breast Cancer in Relation to Reproductive Factors in Denmark,” British Journal of Cancer, Vol. 58 (1988)
Study 18. Among Chinese women who developed breast cancer before the age of 40, abortion before first full-term pregnancy led to an increased risk of 140 percent. — J.M. Yuan; M.C. Yu; R.K. Ross; “Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Chinese Women in Shang-hai,” Cancer Resources, Vol. 48 (1988)
Study 19. Among women who developed breast cancer while pregnant: those who carried pregnancy to term had a 20 percent survival rate; women who miscarried received more aggressive treatment and had a 42 percent survival rate; but every woman who chose abortion died. — R.M. Clark and T. Chua, “Breast Cancer and Pregnancy: The Ultimate Challenge,” Clinical Oncology of the Royal College of Radiology, Vol. 1 (1989)
Study 20. The abortion of a first pregnancy led to an increased risk of 90 percent, and repeated abortions heightened the risk by 300 percent. — H.L. Howe; R.T. Senie; H. Bzduch; P. Herzfeld, “Early Abortion and Breast Cancer Risk Among Women Under 40,” International Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 18 (1989)
Study 21. Women who had an abortion before a live birth had an 88 percent greater risk of breast cancer than did women who had a live birth before an abortion. — B.M. Lindefors-Harris; G. Eglund; O. Meirik; L.E. Rutqvist; K. Wiklund, “Risk of Cancer of the Breast After Legal Abortion During First Trimester: A Swedish Register Study,” British Medical Journal, Vol. 299 (1989)
Study 22. Aborting a first pregnancy led to more aggressive cancer tumors. — H. Olsson; J. Ranstam; B. Baldetorp; S.B. Ewers; M. Ferno;
D. Killander; H. Sigurdsson, “Proliferation and DNA Ploidy in Malignant Breast Tumors in Relation to Early Oral Contraceptive Use and Early
Abortions,” Cancer, Vol. 67 (1991)
Study 23. Breast cancers of women who aborted their first pregnancy showed many times the normal rate of INT2—a specific gene associated with breast cancer. — H. Olsson; A. Borg; M. Ferno; J. Ranstam; H. Sigurdsson, “Her-2/neu and
INT2 Proto-Oncogene Amplification in Malignant Breast Tumors in Relation to Reproductive Factors and Exposure to Exogenous Hormones,” Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 83 (1991)
Study24. Legal abortions in Italy before a first birth led to an increased risk of 30 percent. — F. Parazzini; C. LaVecchia; E. Negri, “Spontaneous and Induced Abortions and the Risk of Breast Cancer,” International Journal of Cancer, Vol. 48 (1991)
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com, already recommended, is excellent; other good sources of information online include all.org, cbrinfo.org, and afterabortion.org.
Oh, Lord – my head is spinning. Someone shed some light (preferably spiritual) here. If God is indeed just, all-knowing and merciful – why would He allow this malady to afflict post-abortive women? As if we haven’t suffered enough! (Well, OK – not all of us. If you’ve read Ava Gardner’s self-absorbed autobiography, you won’t find much post-abortive angst going on there. Not only did she darned near wreck Frank Sinatra’s life, but she betrayed little PAS in her literary meanderings. Maybe that’s why I don’t like being compared to her….I much prefer the Angelina Jolie references, without the bloodletting proclivities).
But seriously, folks: I’m upset about this. I wouldn’t wish cancer on anyone except maybe Osama, but my ex getting away scott-free is distinctly unpalatable. And now I have the above-mentioned litany of horrors to ponder? The only drugs I’ve ever taken have been Vicodin and/or its relatives (for a legitimate back injury in 2001), but I’m having flashbacks of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Second Helping” LP, Bachman-Turner-Overdrive’s “Taking Care of Business” and Golden Earring’s “Radar Love” being sung by Roseanne Barr and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Loud…discordant…disconcerting.
Whew – if I am stricken with breast cancer, my moral/spiritual convictions had better take the fore. Because if I take the fore, tragedy will ensue. Someone won’t be alive and well to ponder the cadre of illegitimate children he’s fathered. He won’t be able to celebrate every January, when the words “Roe” and “Wade” elicit euphoria as few events can any longer. And I’ll be spending my days languishing in a women’s prison, where I’ll be visited by the real-life evangelist portrayed in “Woman, Thou Art Loosed” – a horrifying film I saw last Saturday.
OK, OK – I know I don’t have the right to take a life – any life. But I’ll need my faith as I’ve never needed it before it this illness strikes, no doubt about it.
annette
the key here is to recognize that all sin has consequences. but that does NOT mean that God is lacking in mercy for those of us who have sinned and repented of it. and you have cried out for forgiveness and HE has heard your cry. therefore, i personally do not believe you will be visited with further consequences, though i have no way of knowing for sure. but i sense a sensitive spirit in you, one that wants to use her experience to help others. and i feel God will honor that.
remember also that in a fallen world such as ours, sin has a way of harming even those who were not directly involved in it. what i mean by that is that sometimes lung cancer strikes someone who’s never smoked, sometimes a person in seemingly excellent health keels over from a heart attack, without any warning, or an accident takes the life of someone who just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. sin hurts all of mankind, and has since the fall of man in the garden of eden. there are consequences to sin, but there is not a direct cause/effect to every sin – in other words, not every post-abortive woman contracts breast cancer. you have already suffered tremendously due to what has occurred, and God knows that and is with you through it all.
i’m sure this falls short of being a good explanation or any sort of reassurance for you, but my suggestion would be to go to God’s Word and just immerse yourself in it, perhaps starting with Job in the old testament or the gospel of John in the new. many of the psalmists and the prophets cried out to God – ‘why?’ or ‘how?’ when they contemplated sin and its consequences. and God did not always answer them in ways that allowed for real understanding. but when it’s all said and done, we must trust Him to be with us through every trial, because He has promised to do so. and God ALWAYS keeps his promises.
Thanks, Jerry. Your wisdom has provided some much-needed clarity (again). Yes, sin has consequences. And, like many post-abortive women, my heart has been informed (dramatically), and I’m one of many who has repented. However…..
If sin has consequences, how can people like my ex crap all over people, have no conscience and sleep like a baby at night? (no pun intended there……) I won’t go into detail, but it’s very excruciating to observe, close-hand, a sadist right before one’s very own 16-year-old eyes. Especially when one is pregnant. He looked like a little boy who’s just seen his first Christmas tree light up. It was appalling.
Now, those statistics listed above are terrifying. I don’t know if they’re 100% accurate, or if they will ring true in my case. But, who else should be the recipient of my anger? Not my own doctor, who is deceased and who merely arranged the surgery; he did not perform it. Not my beautiful Mother, whom I love more than life itself. Hardly the abortionist, who was less verbose (or clarifying) than the dude who installed my digital cable TV weeks ago. Besides, he was about 60 years of age when the abortion occurred. That would mean he’s either deceased himself or………..
The location is St. John’s Nursing Home – Victoria, KS – circa 2004: “Retired abortionist ‘John T. Doe’, pictured in rocking chair at right with spittoon at his feet, waxes nostalgic about his former profession….Note the picture of erstwhile TV star Mr. Ed on wall.”
“Oh yes, that tall, uptight 16-year-old girl was just one of many whom I treated that year. Do I remember her? The one with the words ‘acute emotional distress’ on her medical chart? Why…..oh hayull NO, I don’t remember her! She was only one of hundreds who passed through my doors! Why would I remember her? She was just ‘Preggo #90210″ to me!’ ”
Turning to his roommate, “Yes, sirree, Wilbur, no decade can hold a candle to the seventies.”
Oh, mercy. Just some morbid humor for today. Thanks, Jerry, for that trenchant wisdom. I’ll try to reflect on it more fully, because I need to do so.
God bless.
Induced abortion is not the main cause of breast cancer; it ishowever, one of the most preventable, because it is a choice…at least so far, in many countries…
Prout
“If God is indeed just, all-knowing and merciful – why would He allow this malady to afflict post-abortive women?”
I think a better question is why pre-abortive women aren’t being told this danger, why the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Planned Parenthood, and others are deliberately suppressing the growing body of evidence implicating induced abortion in breast cancer cases.
One abortion advocate, in response to these studies, said that she was going to discount any study of which the author could not be personally contacted, raising the question as to whether or not she would likewise discount Sir Isaac Newton’s findings, because he is no longer available for comment. Which reminds me…
‘I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’” — Jeremiah 29:11
One might as well ask, why would such a God “allow” someone whose parachute failed to be killed upon jumping out of a plane, because that person had already suffered up to that point.
Especially if it were then discovered that someone has deliberately packed the chute to malfunction…or merely knew it was improperly packed, but failed to tell the jumper, for fear that such news might “upset” the jumper, who would then not pay the pilot…you get the picture.
I’m not sure that every post-abortive woman will get breast cancer; but the main theory is that breast cells undergo structural changes as a pregnancy is carried to full term which afford some built-in protection against breast cancer; and if the pregnancy is aborted before those changes take place, then those cells are more vulnerable to breast cancer.
The appropriate target for your anger is the target of God’s, as expressed in Romans 1:18; those who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
“He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.” — Proverbs 28:13
Shalom,
lifelynx
Whoa – Lifelynx: You obviously never knew my ex. I appreciate the spiritual advice, though – and I’ll try to take it to heart…..I’ll really try. I mean, I’ll try to forget about my 29 years of post-abortive angst – while the worst trauma he ever endured was the expiration of his “High Times” subscription. I’ll try to sublimate the fact that he laughed at my purported suicide attempt the day my pregnancy was diagnosed. (And to think – I didn’t even believe in suicide back then! The nerve of this dude!) I’ll try to find another name for the flower this he-man inspired (White-Trash Narcissus) and quit using it to line the toilet bowl when I have the flu and need to bring something up so’s I’ll feel better.
I should be counting my blessings, I know. And, yes, God accepts our sincere sorrow for our sins and cleanses us of them. I should be keeping this in the forefront of my psyche. I should be grateful that I can now listen to any tunes from the 1974-1975 season without running to the little girls’ room first thing in the morning to throw up, and wondering how in the hellola I’m going to keep this condition away from Sister Louise, who would have expelled me on the spot. I need to keep reminding myself that I’m lucky I’m not living in the middle east, in which case I’d probably be dead at my brother’s hands.
At any rate, I last saw this red-haired monstrosity in the summer of 1982, when he returned home for a friend’s wedding. My goodness, he did not resemble the sensual symphony of yore. He had a beer gut, the vapid gaze of the terminally stupid, and the insipid facial expression of one of the Manson followers. It looked like he had been scarfing down female hormones amidst his daily cocktail of noxious substances.
I mean, if anyone’s going to get breast cancer, it’ll probably be him, not his uber-sass of an ex, who’s survived with no male hormones – and no “male side” to get in touch with, thank goodness. God is good.
Annette;
There was no intended reference to your ex in my previous post.
You asked where to most productively direct your anger over the abortion-breast cancer link, and I answered you as honestly as I can.
1982? I think your anger/hatred towards this individual, however justified & provoked, is keeping you bound & subject to him in a way that does him no harm and you no good.
No, I don’t know either of you; just my take from reading your posts.
Suggestion: next time you feel like venting this, write it out by hand and don’t mail or post or save it; burn it and ask, as you do, for the fire of God’s spirit to burn away all impurity you have recieved and given through this tie. Our God is a consuming fire. (see Isaiah 6:1-8, Hebrews 12:14-28)
lifelynx
For Annette:
It sounds to me that lifelynx has given you some sound advice.
If I may add some more…I read this this evening, and thought of both your latest posts.
BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL,FOR THEY SHALL OBTAIN MERCY.
Resentment is when you let your hurt become hate.
Resentment is when you allow what is eating you to eat you up.
Resentment is when you poke, stoke, feed and fan the fire, stirring the flames and reliving the pain.
Resentment is the deliberate decision to nurse the offense until it becomes a black, furry, growling grudge.
For the one who tastes God’s grace and then gives it to others, the reward is a blessed liberation. The prison door is open, and the prisoner set free is yourself.
Forgiving others allows us to see how God has forgiven us. The dynamic of giving grace is the key to understanding grace, for it is when we forgive others that we begin to feel what God feels.
The next time you see or think of the one who broke your heart, look twice. As you look at his face, look also for His face — the face of the One Who forgave you. Look into the eyes of the King Who wept when you pleaded for mercy. Look into the face of the Father who gave you grace when no one else gave you a chance.
Find the face of the God who forgives in the face of your enemy. And then, because God has forgiven you more than you will ever be called on to forgive in another, set your enemy — and yourself — free.
–excerpted from Max Lucado’s study on the Beatitudes.
OK, OK – Lifelynx and Pat – you’ve got a point. I need to let go of a lot of this anger that I’ve been carrying around like a 30-pound bag of rotten Irish potatoes. But, hey, I’ve LOST 30 gosh-darned pounds of excess poundage this year, so maybe I’m on my way.
Gotta make a point, though: Unleashing my anger has helped ME. I’m aware that the object of my abject anger isn’t affected – this thing doesn’t have a conscience, so how can it be affected? Asking this gargoylian, gonadotropic disease to have a conscience is like asking Hugh Hefner to give up his concubines – just ain’t a-gonna happen.
However……my humor about this (and my ability to make others laugh) has helped me – immeasurably. Why, I wouldn’t be sitting here if my icy ire hadn’t melted the reserve of a health care professional who sort of saved my life 6 years ago. Now, when I first met this gentleman, he was as cold as the Titanic’s iceberg. I didn’t know – then – that he was of the…ahem…shall we say…..”estrogenically apathetic persuasion”. And it took me a few months to thaw him out. And it wasn’t my Amazonian, Angelina-Jolie-inspired countenance that did it, folks. It was my acerbic wit that won him over. And thank goodness it did – because he helped me triumph over a near-fatal illness. He thought I was funny – about any number of things, my ex included.
So-o-o-o-o, I guess I’m trying to say that humor has its place. And I AM merciful. That’s probably why I’m not suing my ex as we speak. The dude has a wife and two kids – and I’m not about to drag them through the muddied waters. If I had exuded from the loins of someone eerily reminiscent of Joseph Goebbels and/or the Marquis de Sade, I wouldn’t want to know about it. So I’m keeping my messianic mouth shut about this one.
Seriously, though – thanks for the advice. It’s good, spiritually sound advice that I’ll try to heed.
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