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Eve Sanchez Silver being interviewed by Brad Mattes

Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb 11, 2009 / 04:26 am (CNA).- An upcoming episode of “Facing Life Head-On” will discuss the possible link between abortion and breast cancer and purports to expose the “irregular relationship” between the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer organization and Planned Parenthood.

The episode will argue that an abortion-breast cancer link makes “good biological sense” while alleging that the “cancer fundraising industry” is covering up the link “because it is not good for fundraising to tell donors their abortions may be responsible for their breast cancers.”

The episode also alleges that “abortion industry feminists” lead the breast cancer fundraising “industry.”

“Facing Life Head-On” host Brad Mattes will lead the episode, titled “Komen’s Dark Side.”

Mattes will host Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer; Eve Sanchez Silver, president of Clear Research and former member of Komen’s Latino Advisory Committee; and Dr. Angela Lanfrachi, MD, FACS, a clinical assistant professor of surgery at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center in New Jersey who co-founded the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute.

"Komen's officials have no right to keep women in the dark about a breast cancer risk, while at the same time giving funds to Planned Parenthood, a primary cause of the breast cancer epidemic," Malec charged, according to a press release. She claimed that in 2007 the Susan G. Komen Foundation gave $700,000 in funding to Planned Parenthood.

The episode will air on cable television stations during the week of March 8, 2009.

“Facing Life Head-On” was nominated for “Best TV Talk Show” by the National Religious Broadcasters.

Airtimes and the full program of “Komen’s Dark Side” may be viewed on-line at http://www.facinglife.tv/

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Published by: Debi
Plymouth MI USA 04/24/2009 06:57 AM EST

I am a pro-lifer, a christian and a 6 year breast cancer survivor ( never had an abortion). I will also be walking in the breast cancer 3 day event in August for the second time. My daughter willl also be walking with me again. Between the two of us we will have raised almost 10,000.00 in two years and walked 120 miles.What I'm hearing now is mking me sick. I hate planned parenthood and what they stand for and that is "death of babies" Please tell me this is not true. Why would Susan G. Komen, who are trying to find a cure, give $ to killing factory how does that benefit them?

Published by: Karen Malec
Hoffman Estates, IL, USA 02/13/2009 03:58 PM EST

To Marlene Batram:

The U.S. government was decades slow to recognize the tobacco-cancer link - the first study in 1928. It was 1964 before the feds came out with a full warning.

The U.S. National Cancer Institute provides the most money for cancer research in this country. At the 2003 workshop where scientists purportedly examined the abortion-breast cancer research, several scientists complained to Professor Joel Brind of the Breast Cancer Institute (who wrote the minority dissenting opinion at the workshop) that they feared the loss of grants if they spoke in favor of a link.

At the workshop, the NCI acknowledged 1 of the 3 ways that abortion raises breast cancer risk. The agency acknowledged that increased childbearing, starting at a younger age, and increased duration of breastfeeding reduce risk.

Then the agency contradicted itself by denying an abortion-cancer link. Childbearing is protective because it is the only event in a woman's life that matures her cancer-susceptible breast lobules into fully and permanently cancer-resistant lobules. The woman who aborts loses that protection.

An online videocast of the workshop shows that, contrary to NCI claims, research linking abortion with breast cancer was NOT reviewed. Only the small body of research whose authors reported no increase in risk was examined. The agency welcomed only one view - that abortion does not increase breast cancer risk.

Published by: Marlene Bartram
Orting, WA 02/12/2009 02:02 PM EST

I had heard of a study done in the early ninety's that indicted a higher incidence of breast cancers to woman who have abortions (both spontaneous and induced). Before I 'spread the gospel' I looked for later better controlled and higher enrollee studies.

I found the following from the National Cancer Institute website. It is important to quote data from reputable and reliable studies in order to address any issues. Especially issues as emotional as abortions. Abortion is a horrid act unto itself.

"In February 2003, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) convened a workshop of over 100 of the world’s leading experts who study pregnancy and breast cancer risk. Workshop participants reviewed existing population-based, clinical, and animal studies on the relationship between pregnancy and breast cancer risk, including studies of induced and spontaneous abortions. They concluded that having an abortion or miscarriage does not increase a woman’s subsequent risk of developing breast cancer. A summary of their findings, titled Summary Report: Early Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer Workshop, can be found at [The National Cancer Institute Website] Thank you

Published by: E.A.
St. Louis, MO 02/11/2009 09:00 PM EST

I've been told about this before... it's because of the hormones present in the body in early pregnancy. They don't return to their normal levels if the baby is aborted as they would if the baby was carried to term, and they raise the risks of tumors in the breasts.

Of course, you never hear this from the mainstream media because none of them want to admit that abortion has risks.

Published by: DK
PA 02/11/2009 02:05 PM EST

I am curious to know, why does Komen support the abortion industry if they know that abortion causes breast cancer? Does it all boil down to money? If so, very sickening! The other person adding their comments was right. The only one benefiting from Komen is Komen.

Published by: Lisa
CA / USA 02/11/2009 01:01 PM EST

My mother was a 'child' of the 1960's. She was diagnosed in 1990 at the age of 42 with malignant breast cancer. She died less than 4 years later. Following her death, we discovered via her death certificate that she'd had 3 abortions in her lifetime. I've read that the chance of contracting breast cancer due to abortion is 30%. If this is true, my mother had a 90% chance of contracting the disease. This information is stunning. But to those of us who are devout Catholics, is it suprising that the very cause of the attack on the breasts, is the woman's attack on her baby?

Published by: Lee Anders
Oswego, IL 02/11/2009 12:43 PM EST

Finally!! Thank God this horror is being addressed. I am going to notify the pastor of my parish and everyone I know to watch this program. Komen Foundation needs to be exposed. Too many women and men are dazzled by the rhetoric in the Komen Ads. The only one benefiting from Komen is Komen.

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