Throw Those Pink Ribbons Away!

Would a lung cancer awareness campaign make any sense if it failed to mention smoking? What would be the use of all those billboards and colored ribbons, donation drives and multi-million pledges from the government if the rules of political correctness wouldn't allow us to name one of the biggest causes of the disease?

Sure, it's unlikely someone would deny the link between smoking and lung cancer. But when it comes to the link between abortion and breast cancer - many choose to deny the obvious.

Karen Malec of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer said: "The media's behavior is very problematic. When the history books are written on the abortion-breast cancer link, women are going to be appalled by the major media's behavior on this matter and the media will suffer further lose of credibility."

"The mainstream media have aggressively promoted abortion, and the abortion-breast cancer link would mean that more of their readers are getting breast cancer because they believed what the media were telling them."

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The mainstream media insists there's no link between abortion and breast cancer; they claim any such cases are mere coincidence. The facts however prove them wrong. Dr Clem Persaud gave us a presentation on abortion - breast cancer link at the recent pro-life conference. In fact, not only surgical abortion disrupts the natural process (including formation of milk-producing cells) which elevates the risk of breast cancer, but also the methods by which abortions are performed destroy the cells that could have protected the woman by restoring hormonal level as it used to be before pregnancy.

As for the best way to prevent breast cancer - that would be carrying a pregnancy to term and breastfeeding the baby. Believe it or not - that would reduce the risk three-fold even among those who are genetically predisposed to breast cancer. Sure that's not a politically correct solution. But I don't think there's room for political correctness in medicine. Either we call a disease what it is - a disease and work to eradicate it or the disease eradicates us. Like it or not, there's no other option.

Our opponent claim that abortion is a "personal choice". In fact, it's the "unchoice". It leaves the child dead and his mother - wounded. Often - emotionally, but sometimes - mortally wounded. On average, 15 Canadian women die from breast cancer every single day. Those are the facts. And if you choose to ignore them just because they don't go along with your views on women's rights - then don't forget to throw away your pink ribbon.