Abortion-Breast Cancer Cover-up to be Discussed at Association of American Physicians and Surgeons 60th Meeting

9/12/2003

From: Karen Malec of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, 877-803-0102 E-mail: response@abortionbreastcancer.com

PALOS HEIGHTS, Ill., Sept. 12 -- The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer announced today that its president, Karen Malec, will speak about the government's cover-up of the abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link at the 60th Meeting of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) on Sept. 19. Her speech, "Perversion of Science by Politics: Case Study-Informed Consent," will take place at 11 a.m. at Marriott's Grand Resort in Point Clear, Ala.

Mrs. Malec's article for the AAPS was published in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons and entitled, "The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link: How Politics Trumped Science and Informed Consent." (1)

The AAPS' motto, "omnia pro aegroto," means "all for the patient." The group advocates for patients' rights.

"The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the rest of the cancer establishment are making themselves irrelevant by covering up the ABC link," said Mrs. Malec. "They're stepping up their use of junk science for the purpose of manipulating public opinion and are severely damaging their credibility in the process. They're selectively reporting flawed studies, which misclassify thousands of post-abortive women as non-abortive. They're using a hypothetical problem, 'report bias,' to disparage more than two dozen studies linking abortion with breast cancer.

"We call on the cancer establishment to show the same regard for patients' rights as does the AAPS," said Mrs. Malec.

Serious charges of impropriety were made against the cancer establishment in a recent Los Angeles Times commentary where it was reported that cancer deaths jumped 30 percentage points and the NCI's budget ballooned from $150 million to $4.6 billion since Nixon's "War on Cancer" began in 1971. (2)

"The NCI is a corrupt agency," said Mrs. Malec. "It delayed warning the public about the tobacco-cancer link and the danger posed by radioactive fallout following atomic bomb testing in the 1950's because its political considerations are paramount."

The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported in 1992 that, "The ACS is more interested in accumulating wealth than saving lives." (3)

"There is sufficient evidence," argued Mrs. Malec, "that cancer has become a business. The evidence extends back to the 1960's when the American Medical Association and several top cancer research hospitals accepted grants from Big Tobacco. (4)

"The NCI's snow job on the ABC link is criminal," Mrs. Malec maintained. "The cancer industry should be investigated."

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women's organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.

REFERENCES: To read more on this subject and access the references, see the complete press release at http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com.