ear ProLife Colleague, You are well aware of the current hassel: Susan Komen Foundation’s gifting Planned Parenthood over half a million dollars a year for performing breast health initiatives (exams, mammograms for the underserved); then Komen pulling this grant as a policy decision because PPH is under investigation by a govt committee; then, when the storm hit, quickly reversing their decision and reforming their policy and reinstating the gifting. What is AAPLOG’s opinion? Komen should stay as far away as possible from the abortion industry, because abortion is associated with an increased risk of future breast cancer. (And Komen could find a lot of breast cancer research projects to fund with that half million dollars/yr.—wouldn’t that make sense?) The abortion/breast cancer controversy has a hot history. For immediate info, go to https://www.aaplog.org/complications-of-induced-abortion/induced-abortion-and-breast-cancer/ The first link gives important historical info on the literature. The other links you will also find very helpful. The question of the abortion/breast cancer association immediately became intensely politicized after the 1994 study by Daling, and the 1996 Brind metanalysis of world literature indicated a 30% increase in breast cancer rate over normal for those women who had abortions. It is hard to describe the intensity of the opposition to this finding. And it has remained intense and politicized. No sane epidemiologist will put his/her name on an article indicting abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer. It would be career ending. (Even tho the majority of world studies indicate a positive association. ) We suggest you read the material on our website, esp the 89 Howe study, 94 Daling study (commissioned by the NCI), and the 96 Brind study to get a balanced view, and come to your own conclusions. Surely the Susan G. Komen Foundtion could use that half million dollars a year for research into the causes and cures for breast cancer, or for screening programs for the underserved that are not run by the nation’s leading abortion provider. AAPLOG
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