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Thursday evening held a war of words at the final GOP presidential debate before the Florida primary on Tuesday, and one political analyst says Mitt Romney did "what he needed to do."
An immigration reform activist says Arizona Governor Jan Brewer had
every right to be upset with President Obama during this week's incident
at the Phoenix airport -- an incident that caused the governor to describe the president as "pretty thin-skinned."
The Sixth Circuit has ruled in favor of a Christian graduate student who almost three years ago was expelled from a university
counseling program for her religious beliefs.
Pro-family activist Peter LaBarbera says it's "very sad" that a number of major corporations -- Microsoft, Nike, and Starbucks among them -- are backing legislation before the Washington legislature to legalize homosexual "marriage."
Media expert Dan Gainor says the TV networks treated the State of the Union
address as a celebration of President Obama while ignoring some of his
key failures. He cites NBC's as being "particularly bad" in that regard.
Message to Matt Drudge, Ann Coulter, and the rest of the establishment GOP: Conservatives don't shine to being told who our nominee is going to be. Thank you, but we'll pick him ourselves.
While Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear pushes for gambling expansion, a pastor is being criticized for trying to use prayer to help encourage lawmakers to make decisions that are consistent with God's "eternal character and truth."
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
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.
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.
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?
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).
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.
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]
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.
Rev. Clenard Childress distributed thousands of copies of the movie, Maafa 21, at the recent NAACP convention. Rev. Childress tells us about that project.
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.
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.
Oleg Atbashian joins us again today to discuss his book, Shakedown Socialism. In 1994, he emigrated to the USA hoping to live in a country that was ruled by reason and common sense. Ironically, he now lives in New York City. He is the creator of ThePeoplesCube.com, a satirical website where he writes under the name of Red Square. The website for his book is www.shakedownsocialism.com .
Oleg will be in the New Orleans area on October 22 and October 23, 2010. You can go to www.gnotp.com to get details about his appearances while here in New Orleans.
Oleg Atbashian joins us today to discuss his book, Shakedown Socialism. In 1994, he emigrated to the USA hoping to live in a country that was ruled by reason and common sense. Ironically, he now lives in New York City. He is the creator of ThePeoplesCube.com, a satirical website where he writes under the name of Red Square. The website for his book is www.shakedownsocialism.com .
Oleg also was an eye witness to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11. In this broadcast he shares his own experiences and thoughts on that event as we remember that dreadful day.
Oleg is both funny and sensitive - a rare combination in those who comment on our American culture and politics.