http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/05/santorum-suggests-abortion-causes-breast-cancer/ Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Sunday suggested that Susan G. Komen for the Cure shouldnt provide grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings because abortions cause breast cancer, a false claim that has been repeatedly debunked. The candidate told Fox News host Chris Wallace that he didnt agree with the Komen Foundation reversing itself last week and making Planned Parenthood eligible for future grants. Ive taken the position as a presidential candidate and someone in Congress that Planned Parenthood funds and does abortions, Santorum explained. Theyre a private organization they stand up and support what ever they want. I dont believe that breast cancer research is advanced by funding an organization where youve seen ties to cancer and abortion, he added. So, I dont think its a particularly healthy way of contributing money to further cause of breast cancer, but thats for a private organization like Susan B. Komen to make that decision. According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the several small flawed studies that suggested a link between abortion and breast cancer have been disproven. Since then, better-designed studies have been conducted, the institutes website said. These newer studies examined large numbers of women, collected data before breast cancer was found, and gathered medical history information from medical records rather than simply from self-reports, thereby generating more reliable findings. The newer studies consistently showed no association between induced and spontaneous abortions and breast cancer risk. In 2002, the Bush administration temporarily altered NCIs website to say that scientific evidence supported a possible link between abortion and breast cancer. After an outcry from the scientific community, NCI corrected its website with an accurate fact sheet. A study released by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) in 2006 found that the Bush administration also used pregnancy resource centers commonly known as crisis pregnancy centers to falsely inform pregnant teens that the risk of breast cancer increased by 80 percent after an abortion. This tactic may be effective in frightening pregnant teenagers and women and discouraging abortion, the study concluded (PDF). But it denies the teenagers and women vital health information, prevents them from making an informed decision, and is not an accepted public health practice. ------------------------------------------------------- Is this man insane? Seriously? I can understand someone not liking abortion, even some crazies saying you will go to hell for it... but saying that it causes breast cancer... that like a whole new level of full retard.
Santorum is not the brightest bulb on the planet. He also told a gay man that same sex marriage does nothing to benefit society. He's a lunatic.
You know....I can't really take him seriously. Not after googling him. Anything he says from here on out is pretty much irrelevant.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/abortion-miscarriage Santorum needs to fire his researchers before he gets to look even more stupid.
I used to be strongly opposed to abortion on moral grounds. But then I realized that as a practical matter it is mostly lib women killing their unborn children, most of which would grow up to be libs also. Proving once again that every dark cloud does have a silver lining.
I'll take this relatively rare opportunity to agree with those of you on the Left about Santorium! I'm not being sarcastic... Santorum is the very embodiment of why and how radical Socialists like Obama can get enough traction to be elected to any post outside of welfare-ghettos like Southside Chicago.... Why would an arch-Conservative like Pollycy say such a thing?! 1. Santorum is another failing "Don Quixote" who tilts against the windmill of Roe v. Wade in very visible futility -- dragging the whole Republican/Right down with him. 2. Santorum falls into the blindly-subjective trap of encouraging legislated "morality", thus alienating or irritating all who do not subscribe to his particular viewpoint on what is "moral" and what is not.... Doing this only further fractures the Conservative Right by splitting away a share of the Republican vote that is always less than 10%, thereby making it more possible for the liberal Socialists (who suffer no angst over a thing like "morality") to consolidate in an unbroken rank and win. 3. Santorum rails against all "entitlements", and advocates immediate cuts to Social Security recipients: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/06/rick-santorum-social-security-cuts_n_1190527.html http://www.azcentral.com/news/artic...antorum-wants-quick-cuts-social-security.html http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=13&articleid=20120107_13_A10_CUTLIN21760 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/...ocial-Security-benefits,-starting-immediately Speaking as a Baby Boomer, on the cusp of receiving my own well-deserved Social Security benefit, this kind of confiscatory crap from Santorum is like getting a bucket of cold urine right in my face! Santorum confuses Social Security, which many of us have been forced BY LAW to pay into for decades, with welfare. This is especially galling to Conservatives, who despise the Socialist Welfare State above nearly all other evils. For the vast majority of us, Social Security benefits have been EARNED -- they are bought and paid for, and we Baby Boomers, in our huge numbers, will devastate any political talking-head who tries to cheat us out of this EARNED benefit. Sure, Frankie Roosevelt, the arch-hyperliberal Socialist of the Twentieth Century, should never have put such a thing into being in the first place. But he did! And it has been the law of the land since the 1930's and it remains the law today: fail to make your mandated contribution to Social Security and you will be prosecuted under present-day law! But Santorum would cut this EARNED benefit to augment aspects of his view on "family values" and avoid burdening "the children and the grandchildren". It's a pity to burden anyone with anything, but in point of fact NOBODY'S "CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN" HAVE PAID A F-ING DOLLAR INTO ANYTHING! But Santorum thinks this kind of benefit-confiscation against people on Social Security is "morally" acceptable... while ignoring completely the entire proposition of a grossly unfair U. S. Tax Code that is riddled with loopholes, shelters, exemptions, and exceptions for the truly über-rich who pay little or nothing in taxes! Obama is guilty of stealing a half-trillion dollars from Medicare to float his socialized medicine scheme, "Obamacare"... so don't get the idea that I hold Democrats innocent in any of this. But it's worse with Santorum, because he is supposed to be one of us! Sorry, Rick... go home and be with your family, and keep your mouth shut! It's "Conservatives" like you who guarantee the re-election of radical Socialists like Obama....
Thank you. And for all those who believe that Britons live in an entitlement society I'd like to point out that our social security and welfare benefits are also paid for. By all of us. If I become unemployed I can claim unemployment benefit because I've been paying into the scheme since I was elegible to.
Instead of name-calling let's look at the facts. Abortion 'triples breast cancer risk': Fourth study finds terminations linked to disease National Cancer Institute Researcher Admits Abortion Breast Cancer Link
Hold on a minute; your link says using oral contraception may show a link to breast cancer, not abortion. Furthermore a study of only 300 women is barely definitive and statistically insignificant.
Here are some quotes from the links I provided. quote: The study found that "a statistically significant 40% increased risk for women who have abortions" exists, and that a " 270% increased risk of triple negative breast cancer (an aggressive form of breast cancer associated with high mortality) among those who used oral contraceptives while under age 18 and a 320% increased risk of triple negative breast cancer among recent users (within 1-5 years) of oral contraceptives," also exists. quote: Last year, studies from Turkey and China also reported statistically significant risk increases for women who had abortions.The Turkish study reported a 66% increased risk of breast cancer for women with abortions while the Chinese study found a statistically significant 17% increased breast cancer risk among Chinese women who had induced abortions. quote: An abortion can triple a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer in later life, researchers say.A team of scientists made the claim while carrying out research into how breastfeeding can protect women from developing the killer disease. While concluding that breastfeeding offered significant protection from cancer, they also noted that the highest reported risk factor in developing the disease was abortion. Other factors included the onset of the menopause and smoking. The findings, published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, are the latest research to show a link between abortion and breast cancer. The research was carried out by scientists at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka. It is the fourth epidemiological study to report such a link in the past 14 months, with research in China, Turkey and the U.S. showing similar conclusions. Every woman should be aware of this danger! I'm appalled that some people want to cover up the risks and put women's lives in danger.
Don't worry. Most of those "lib women" will later go on to have children they actually want and can take care of. Since its estimated one in three women will get an abortion at some point in their life, I feel like every one alive today actually owes their life to abortion. At somepoint in our family histories, it seems likely some direct ancestor got an abortion before going on to have the children they actually wanted, and eventually descending to us.
Think of what the political landscape would be like today if lib women had not been killing their children for the past 40 years. And by now many of those lib children would have children of voting age.
Don't blame me. I'm a conservative who supports the privilage of lib women to kill their children before they escape the womb.
I see you've fallen for the myth that conservative women don't get abortions. They do, just as often as the liberal women. The conservative women just deny it. When I was growing up, there were lots of retarded kids around. Now, retarded kids are kind of rare. Why? Because 90+% of women choose to abort when the amnio shows Downs Syndrome or a similar problem. That's not just the dirty liberals getting those abortions. When push comes to shove, conservative women will usually get the little tadpole vacuumed out, rather than give birth to a retarded baby. Plus, there's that thing about how children of conservatives tend to grow up to be liberals.
