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By Karen Malec
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
December 17, 2014
Dear Ken Miller,
I need your help to fund our 2015 budget. Your contribution will help us
to continue educating women about the breast cancer risks of abortion,
contraceptive/abortifacient steroids and early premature birth. May I
count on you to make a tax deductible, end-of-year contribution?
What do the National Football League (NFL), Big Tobacco and the abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link all have in common? Answer: the cover up of scientific evidence.
The New York Times Magazine featured a cover story early last
month that drew a comparison between the NFL’s and Big Tobacco’s
responses to scientific evidence showing their products were unsafe.[1]
The Times said forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu, had conducted
autopsies on retired Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman Mike Webster
and five other NFL players. Despite their relatively young ages when
they’d died, Omalu found their brains had deteriorated markedly and
shared the characteristics of Alzheimer’s patients.
What happened next to Omalu was predictable. According to the Times, he was “savaged.” Omalu and his colleagues reported on the findings from Webster’s autopsy in the journal, Neurosurgery
in 2005.[2] He concluded the football player had suffered “chronic
traumatic encephalopathy” and argued the game may put players at risk
for irreversible brain damage. The NFL responded swiftly by attacking
him. NFL-affiliated physicians unsuccessfully attempted to pressure the
journal’s editors to retract the article.
Many famous pioneers in science and medicine throughout history were
ridiculed, lost their hospital privileges or were called “liars,”
“crackpots” or “charlatans” by their own colleagues, i.e. Wilbur and
Orville Wright, Ignaz Semmelweiss, MD, Joseph Lister, Joseph Nott,
Peyton Rous, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Gregor Mendel, etc.
The Huffington Post savaged the Coalition on Abortion/Breast
Cancer this past summer in an irrational, emotionally charged article
loaded with falsehoods and inaccuracies.[3] The author, Lara Huffman,
couldn’t be bothered to check her “facts.” She failed to report the name
of our organization accurately. She falsely alleged our website lacks
citations and that we sell a bumper sticker that reads, “Abortion causes
breast cancer.” She denied the biological explanation for the ABC link,
although even critics agree it’s physiologically correct. She
confidently and falsely reassured women abortion doesn’t raise risk
(while simultaneously acknowledging the risk-reducing effect of
childbearing). Although we informed the Huffington Post about
Huffman’s wild inaccuracies, her errors were never corrected. Facts are
irrelevant. Millions of women can drop dead for all they care. That’s
how important their radical ideology is to them. But, the Huffington Post’s
editors had so little confidence in Huffman’s claim that abortion
doesn’t raise risk that it dodged our challenge to debate the issue
publicly.
A story from ESPN in 2013 discussed the book, “League of Denial:
Concussions and the battle for Truth,” authored by two ESPN
investigative reporters. It reported the NFL’s efforts to suppress
evidence of a football-brain damage link. It said the book:
“...[r]eports that the NFL used its power and resources to discredit
independent scientists and their work; that the league cited research
data that minimized the dangers of concussions while emphasizing the
league’s own flawed research; and that league executives employed an
aggressive public relations strategy designed to keep the public unaware
of what league executives really knew about the effects of playing the
game.”[4]
Both the Times and the book, “League of Denial,” likened the
NFL’s cover-up to Big Tobacco’s efforts to suppress the truth about the
tobacco-cancer link. Tobacco executives actually considered buying
United Press International so that favorable stories would be published.
They gave funds to prominent U.S. medical research facilities (i.e.
Harvard University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, etc.). The
American Medical Association opposed federal legislation requiring
tobacco companies to provide health warnings on cigarette packages in
February, 1964. In that month, the AMA accepted $10 million from six
tobacco companies to study the link.[5]
In a lawsuit filed by over 4,500 former football players against the
league, the players accused the NFL’s Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Committee of having carried out “fraudulent research” in order to
mislead players and the public about the supposed safety of the game.
Our readers are familiar with fraudulent research.
Professor Joel Brind (Baruch College, City University of New York)
accused the authors of the California Teachers Study of having conducted
fraudulent ABC research.[6] In 2005, he reviewed 10 prospective studies
whose authors claimed to have found little or no risk increase for
women who’d had abortions. He concluded those studies included “frank
violations of the scientific method.”[7]
In their 2014 review of 72 epidemiological studies, Angela Lanfranchi,
MD and Patrick Fagan, Ph.D. identified many violations of the scientific
method among studies finding little or no risk elevation associated
with abortion, i.e. failing to allow sufficient time to elapse after an
abortion so that detectable cancers could be diagnosed.[8] One would
have expected seasoned researchers to know better than to commit such
fundamental blunders.
Sadly, it may take lawyers to win justice for women injured by abortion,
as they have for NFL players and smokers. Lawyers won a settlement for
retired NFL players from the NFL. The attorneys general of 46 states
settled a lawsuit in 1998 with tobacco companies who ultimately paid $46
billion for the costs of smoking-related illnesses. So far, five women
in Australia and the U.S. have successfully sued their abortionists for
failing to warn them about the risks of breast cancer and emotional
harm.
Please be sure to remember the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer for a tax deductible, end-of-year contribution. We’re grateful for all you’ve done to help support our work. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Karen Malec
President
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Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is a non-profit 501(c)3
organization. All donations are tax deductible. Please make any
donations through our secure donation button above.
References:
- “How one lawyer’s crusade could change football forever,” by Michael Sokolove, New York Times Magazine, November 6, 2014. Available at: <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/magazine/how-one-lawyers-crusade-could-change-football-forever.html?_r=2>.
- Omalu Bl, et al. Neurosurgery 2005;57(1):128-134. Available at: <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15987548>.
- “Huffington Post attacks the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer,” press release, August 12, 2014. Available at: <http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/news/140811.pdf>.
- “Book: NFL crusaded against science,” by Don Van Natta, Jr., ESPN.com, October 2, 2013. Available at: <http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/9745797/new-book-league-denial-says-nfl-used-resources-power-two-decades-deny-football-link-brain-damage>.
- Question of Intent: a Great American Battle with a Deadly Industry, by David Kessler, MD, 1st ed. New York, N.Y.: Public Affairs; 2001:207.
- “California study denying abortion-cancer link is fraudulent, says scientist.” press release, June 11, 2008. Available at: <http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/press_releases/080611/>.
- Brind J. J Am Phys Surg 2005;10(4):105-110. Available at: <http://www.jpands.org/vol10no4/brind.pdf>.
- Lanfranchi A & Fagan P. Issues in Law and Medicine 2014;29(1):1-133. Available at: <http://abortionbreastcancer.com/docs/Breast-cancer-and-induced-abortion-Lanfranchi-Spring-2014.pdf>
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