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Human Life Alliance rep speaks for pro-life
Marie Larson sets the record straight in response to a commentary run in the Oct. 5 issue of The Journal
By: Marie Larson
Issue date: 10/26/06 Section: Opinion/Editorial
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Human Life Alliance does not intend to scare or manipulate its readers; we merely want to give the facts so that women can make an accurately informed decision. Abortion providers frequently advertise on college campuses. HLA wishes to give the other side of the issue that students are often not exposed to because of the pro-abortion bias in universities and newspapers. We encourage students to look at the footnotes in our publication and read the articles we are referencing.
Regarding questions about the abortion breast cancer link, we stated in the first sentence of our article that the National Cancer Institute (NCI) claims there is no link between abortion and breast cancer. For an organization that supports abortion, they have a history of trying to downplay any research showing abortion's adverse effects to women's health.
There is a big difference between a woman's body naturally shutting down the pregnancy process and artificially shutting it down through killing the baby and taking it from the mother's womb. A woman's body recognizes a miscarriage and shuts down the production of hormones in a way that does not leave cancer vulnerable cells. This does not happen in an artificially-induced abortion. In the United States, the majority of studies (13 out of 15) show an increased risk in breast cancer in women who have had an abortion. The fact that an NCI workshop claims there is no increased risk is not very reassuring.
HLA is all for women using the 100 percent effective preventive method of abstinence until marriage and fidelity within marriage. Regarding birth control, the abortifacient mechanism of the pill is well documented. Simply read the package inserts for any hormonal birth control, and it will explain the drug changes the lining of the endometrium (the uterus) which reduces the likelihood of implantation.
That's a fancy way of saying it can abort a seven to 10 day old human being. Life begins at fertilization - not implantation. The confusion began in 1976 when the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists arbitrarily decided to change the definition of conception and pregnancy to mean implantation rather than fertilization (Physician 1992). Birth control packaging can "truthfully" claim - according to the new definition - that birth control does not stop a pregnancy because it works before implantation.
Regarding questions about the abortion breast cancer link, we stated in the first sentence of our article that the National Cancer Institute (NCI) claims there is no link between abortion and breast cancer. For an organization that supports abortion, they have a history of trying to downplay any research showing abortion's adverse effects to women's health.
There is a big difference between a woman's body naturally shutting down the pregnancy process and artificially shutting it down through killing the baby and taking it from the mother's womb. A woman's body recognizes a miscarriage and shuts down the production of hormones in a way that does not leave cancer vulnerable cells. This does not happen in an artificially-induced abortion. In the United States, the majority of studies (13 out of 15) show an increased risk in breast cancer in women who have had an abortion. The fact that an NCI workshop claims there is no increased risk is not very reassuring.
HLA is all for women using the 100 percent effective preventive method of abstinence until marriage and fidelity within marriage. Regarding birth control, the abortifacient mechanism of the pill is well documented. Simply read the package inserts for any hormonal birth control, and it will explain the drug changes the lining of the endometrium (the uterus) which reduces the likelihood of implantation.
That's a fancy way of saying it can abort a seven to 10 day old human being. Life begins at fertilization - not implantation. The confusion began in 1976 when the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists arbitrarily decided to change the definition of conception and pregnancy to mean implantation rather than fertilization (Physician 1992). Birth control packaging can "truthfully" claim - according to the new definition - that birth control does not stop a pregnancy because it works before implantation.
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