http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/t/tabor/2005/tabor032405.htm

March 24, 2005
by Nathan Tabor

Sometimes evil pops up in the most unlikely of places.

The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation is named for a victim who died
in 1978, at age 36. Before Susan died, her sister Nancy promised to do all
that she could to eradicate the horrible disease, and to that end she
founded the organization in 1982.

Since then, the Komen Foundation, with over 100 local affiliates in the
U.S.A. alone, has raised $740 million for this worthy cause, funding
innovative research grants, public awareness campaigns, and community-based
outreach programs. Every year more than one million people worldwide
participate in their highly publicized "Race for the Cure," a major
fundraising event that is now in its 16 th year this April.

The Komen Foundation took in $153 million in 2003, and much of it probably
went to finance good causes. But in 2003 the foundation also donated
$475,000 to Planned Parenthood, America's largest abortion provider. That
half-million-dollar cash support for abortion is why former Komen employee
Eve Sanchez Silver, a medical researcher, recently quit her job in protest.
Sanchez pointed out the blatant hypocrisy involved.

"You can't affirm life with one hand and support an organization that kills
people with the other," Sanchez told Cybercast News Service back in February
2005. "As far as I'm concerned, anything they [Planned Parenthood] do in the
way of drawing women in for any kind of service would simply be to acclimate
them to their organization until they're ready to have an abortion."

This really is an odd partnership. One group is bound and determined to save
women's lives, and one group is bound and determined to end unborn human
life. Why would they ever partner together? Well, as my column a few weeks
back touched on: Abortion really isn't about "choice." All too often, it's
about the money. Sometimes there may be a hidden, radical feminist agenda at
work that smacks of rank hypocrisy.

But what is even more disturbing is the proven connection between abortion
and breast cancer. Back in 1994, researcher Janet Daling at the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle found that "teenagers with a family
history of the disease who procure abortions before age 18 have an
incalculably high breast cancer risk," according to a recent report on
LifeSiteNews.com. (See http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022203.html.)

A separate study commissioned by the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
confirmed that teens who have abortions before age 18 more than double their
risk of breast cancer, with abortions that come before the birth of a woman'
s first child being the most carcinogenic. That's because girls and young
women still have immature breast lobules, called Types 1 and 2, which are
more vulnerable to cancer. These lobules don't mature into cancer-resistant
Type 3 lobules until after a full term pregnancy.

Sadly, the statistical proof is plain to see. Since the 1973 Roe v. Wade
decision, the incidence of breast cancer in American women has increased
across the board by 40 percent, from 1 in 12 to 1 in 7.5.

Now, I know that some critics on the Left will say: Oh, this is just the
Right making up numbers. OK, let's assume that a 40 percent greater risk is
a bit high. What about 25 percent - is that more acceptable? What about 10
percent? Or just 1 percent, maybe? Breast cancer is a nasty, deadly disease.
Why would any woman want to have an abortion and raise her chances of
getting breast cancer?

Contact the Susan G. Komen Foundation and let them know how you feel about
their support for Planned Parenthood. To object to the Komen Foundation's
position on abortion, call 972-855-1600. Or you can e-mail them from their
website form: http://www.komen.org/contacts.aspx.


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