LifeSiteNews.com
October 6, 2005

ABORTION/BREAST CANCER LINK TO BE PUBLICIZED ACROSS CANADA

CALGARY, October 6, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- During October,
Canadians will see billboards with the message "Stop the cover-up" and
a web address: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.ca The campaign,
coordinated by the national educational pro-life group LifeCanada, and
sponsored by pro-life groups across the country, will raise awareness
of the link between abortion and breast cancer.

"There are over 50 studies worldwide that have shown that abortion
increases a woman's risk of developing breast cancer but women are
never warned about this risk," said LifeCanada President Joanne
Byfield. "We hope to change that."

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women. In
2005, an estimated 21,600 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer
and 5,300 will die of it. The health establishment says most have no
known risk factors.

Byfield countered that. She said that as early as 1957, researchers
identified the link between breast cancer and abortion. Since then
more than 70 studies have examined the link and 80% of them found an
increased risk. The overall increase is 30% but among very young women
and women who have a family history of breast cancer the risk is
higher.

Byfield said she hopes that Canadians, and women in particular, will
go to the site to learn more on the biology and the research. The
website also challenges the positions of cancer groups in Canada and
their refusal to acknowledge the research. "It is unconscionable that
groups would ignore this large body of research," said Byfield.

She pointed out that Health Canada advises women to avoid pesticides
even though it admits there is no compelling evidence that they
increase the risk of breast cancer. Yet it ignores the dozens of
studies that show an elevated risk from abortion.

The Canadian Cancer Society, which denies any link between abortion
and breast cancer, ignores its own precautionary principle which
states: "When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or
the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some
cause-and-effect relationships are not fully established
scientifically." Byfield said that two lawsuits in the U.S. have
resulted in awards to women who were not warned of the risks before
they had abortions.

"If women's health and informed consent aren't enough to motivate the
medical establishment, maybe the threat of liability is," she said.

"There are over 105,000 Canadian women who have abortions each year,"
she said. "Don't they have a right to know what they are choosing?"

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