October 22, 2011 Election Information

Watch live election returns at the Louisiana Secretary of State Website

Louisiana Voters will be going to the polls on October 22 to elect Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Insurance, Commissioner of Agriculture, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Members, and Legislators. Many parishes also have local races on the ballot  Voters will also decide on 5 amendments to the Louisiana Constitution.

Find out what your ballot will look like on October 22

Louisiana Secretary of State Sample Ballots

You may find the following voter guides helpful as you make important decisions regarding your votes:

Louisiana Family Forum Voter Guide - this is a comprehensive listing of candidates and their responses to candidate questionnaires

Louisiana Right to Life Election Guide

Public Affairs Research Guide to Constitutional Amendments

The following are scorecards which track the votes of current elected officials:

Louisiana Family Forum Legislative Scorecards

Louisiana Right to Life Legislative Scorecards

This is a show about Breast Cancer Awareness.  Today's guest is Karen Malec. (www.abortionbreastcancer.org)

In 1986, government scientists wrote a letter to the British journal Lancet and acknowledged that abortion is a cause of breast cancer. They wrote, "Induced abortion before first term pregnancy increases the risk of breast cancer." (Lancet, 2/22/86, p. 436) As of 2006, eight medical organizations recognize that abortion raises a woman's risk for breast cancer, independently of the risk of delaying the birth of a first child (a secondary effect that all experts already acknowledge). An additional medical organization, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, issued a statement in 2003 calling on doctors to inform patients about a "highly plausible" relationship between abortion and breast cancer. General counsel for that medical group wrote an article for its journal warning doctors that three women (two Americans, one Australian) successfully sued their abortion providers for neglecting to disclose the risks of breast cancer and emotional harm, although none of the women had developed the disease.

ABORTION -- A PREVENTABLE RISK FACTOR

It is not true that all women who have breast cancer have had abortions. It’s also untrue that all women who’ve had abortions will get breast cancer.  Induced abortion is only one of the risk factors for the illness. However, it is the most preventable risk factor for breast cancer.

TWO WAYS THAT ABORTION RAISES BREAST CANCER RISK

There are two ways that abortion raises a woman’s risk for breast cancer. The first way is not debated. It’s called the "protective effect of childbearing," and scientists have acknowledged this effect for centuries. The second way is debated, and scientists have studied this effect - known as the "independent link" - since 1957. It has to do with this question: Does an abortion leave a woman with more cancer-vulnerable breast tissue than she had before she became pregnant?

First Way - Loss of the Protective Effect of Childbearing: Delayed First Term Pregnancy, Childlessness, Fewer Births, Decreased Breastfeeding

Scientists first observed in the 17th century that women’s reproductive histories impacted their risk for breast cancer when it was noticed that nuns were at high risk for the disease. Scientists surmised that childbearing provides women with increased protection.

Today’s medical experts agree that the best way women can reduce their lifetime risk for breast cancer is by: 1) Having an early first full term pregnancy (FFTP) starting before age 24; 2) Bearing more children; and 3) Breastfeeding for a longer lifetime duration. It’s undeniable that abortion causes women to change their childbearing patterns. It leads them to forego the protective effects of early FFTP, increased childbearing and breastfeeding. Consequently, scientists do not debate that it increases breast cancer risk in this first of two ways.

Despite these truths, there is not one cancer fundraising business that uses the phrase, "Abortion raises breast cancer risk." Not one of them has ever denounced Planned Parenthood for depriving women of the protective effect of childbearing or acknowledged that abortion contributes to the nation’s breast cancer rates at least in this way.

If childbearing reduces breast cancer risk, then choosing not to have that child means a greater breast cancer risk for the woman. Therefore, there is no debate among scientists that the woman who aborts has a greater breast cancer risk than does the woman who has a baby (assuming that her pregnancy lasts at least 32 weeks).

The Strongest Protective Factor

Medical experts have universally recognized since the publication of a landmark Harvard study in 1970 that the earlier a woman has her first full term pregnancy (FFTP), the lower her risk for breast cancer is. [MacMahon et al. (1970) Bulletin of the World Health Org 43:209-21]

Anti-cancer groups tell women that late FFTP (30 years of age or older) increases risk, but this is a half truth. A late FFTP is at age 24 or older. Each year that a woman delays her FFTP, her risk climbs markedly. A subsequent Harvard study reported that for each one year delay of a first full term pregnancy, risk is elevated 3.5%. [Trichopolous D, Hsieh Cc, MacMahon B, Lin T, et al. Age at Any Birth and Breast Cancer Risk. International J Cancer (1983) 31:701-704]

Nancy Krieger, PhD, wrote in 1989 that early FFTP had “emerged as the strongest protective factor” against the disease. [Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 13:205-223]

Joel Brind, PhD, the lead author of the only comprehensive review and meta-analysis of the abortion-breast cancer research, stated in an affidavit in a California lawsuit that a single year’s delay of a FFTP impacts a woman’s risk of dying from breast cancer so greatly that it is about 10 times more than her risk of dying in childbirth. [Lawsuit referenced above]

For this reason, we encourage married women not to delay their FFTPs. We do, however, encourage abstinence before marriage.

Increased Childbearing and Breastfeeding

Scientists have long considered breastfeeding a likely protective factor, but this wasn’t confirmed until recently. In July 2002, a large meta-analysis of 47 epidemiological studies conducted in 30 countries and published in the British medical journal, Lancet, determined that women can reduce their relative risk of the disease by 4.3% for every 12 months of breastfeeding and 7.0% for each birth. It was concluded that skyrocketing breast cancer rates in the developed nations could be reduced by more than one-half if only women would bear more children and breastfeed for longer duration. [Beral, V (July 20, 2002) Lancet 360:187-95]

Second Way - The Independent Link: An Increase in Cancer-Vulnerable Breast Tissue

Abortion has been implicated with breast cancer in yet another way, however, and estrogen overexposure is the explanation for it. There is staggering evidence of an independent link between abortion and breast cancer. What this means is that a woman who has an abortion is left with more cancer-vulnerable cells than she had before she ever became pregnant. Biological evidence and more than two dozen studies worldwide support a cause and effect relationship. Fifteen studies were conducted on American women, and 13 of them reported risk elevations. Seven found a more than a twofold elevation in risk. Seventeen are statistically significant, 16 of which demonstrated a positive association. The term “statistical significance” means that scientists are at least 95% certain that their findings are not due to chance or error.

The evidence of a causal relationship between abortion and breast cancer isn’t only based on a statistical relationship either. Scientists also require biological evidence and a reasonable biological explanation before concluding that there’s a causal relationship. These requirements have been met.

Pam Geller talks about the Islamization of America and the tenth anniversary of 9/11 attacks on the United States

Terri Timmke of the Greater New Orleans Tea Party discusses Agenda 21 and its impact on our area.

Jesse Lee Peterson, founder of the South Central LA Tea Party, responds to Congresswoman Maxine Waters' comments about Tea Party movement.

Teri Hrabovsky shares about foster parenting and adoption

Rev. Clenard Childress distributed thousands of copies of the movie, Maafa 21, at the recent NAACP convention.  Rev. Childress tells us about that project.

Deneen Borelli of Project21.org shares conservative principles.

Nicole, a missionary to South Africa, talks about her personal testimony and the work she and her husband are doing among Muslims in that country.

EXCLUSIVE: Jayna Davis, Author of "The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing".  

 This story of the Oklahoma City Bombing of 1995 is about to be reopened.  News from Quincy MA has the John Doe #2 being arrested.

 Here the very latest in this case.

Go to BLOG johndoe2noalibi.wordpress.com to keep up to date on the new happenings in this case.

Gary Glenn of the American Family Association of Michigan joins us to discuss the protests going on in Wisconsin over changes to the way public sector unions are allowed to operate in that state.  Lots of information about collective bargaining, compulsory union membership, and fiscal responsibility.                                                         

Deneen Borelli of Project 21 disusses the shootings in Arizona and the response of the media.  We also talk about the mission of Project 21 - educating the public on personal responsibility and limited government.                                                               

Dr. Stephen Waterhouse of Westcliff Bible Church discusses the prohibitions against abortion in the New Testament.    Dr. Waterhouse also discusses his pastoral and personal experience dealing with depression and mental ilness.      You can read more about these topics and others here.                                                                      

We open the listener mailbag and read some emails to the Current Word.  One of them is very sobering.

Is it God or Government that will save our country? 

The Current Word begins its 6th year of broadcasting.  We talk about the new year and what we will be doing.

Gisela Chevalier talks about her experiences in Communist Cuba and her love for the United States of America.  Her mission: help Americans see the similarity between the government she left behind and the march of socialism in this country.

Lennie Ditoro joined us to discuss the Tuesday meeting of the Louisiana BESE board.  They will be meeting to determine whether or not the board should texttextbooks with many factual errors in the area of evolution and global warming.

You can contact the BESE board and ask them to please not spend our tax dollars on books that are deficient and out of date and full of errors.  Many of these books do not meet Louisiana Scientific Standards.

You can find contact information for your BESE member here

Today's guest:  Beverly Eakman speaking about her book - A Common Sense Platform for the 21st Century                                                                                                                            

Today's focus - Christian missions and also the Persecuted Church

1st Half of the show, Greg Heller with Mission Aviation Fellowship discusses his upcoming deployment to Botswana. 

2nd Half of the show, Marco and Angelo Morales share their burden for the persecuted church.  Marco is the area representative for Voice of the Martyrs.   You can contact Marco at 985-510-0468 or by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it