Subject: Australia Woman Settles Abortion-Breast Cancer Lawsuit
Source: World Net Daily; December 30, 2001

Australia Woman Settles Abortion-Breast Cancer Lawsuit

Melbourne, Australia -- A woman in Australia has settled with an abortion
practitioner she had sued because he failed to inform her of the research
linking abortion with breast cancer.

Even though 27 out of 35 studies published since 1957 have linked abortion
with breast cancer, pro-abortion groups continue to deny such a link
exists and refuse to inform prospective abortion recipients of the
studies. Similarly, abortion practitioners, as a rule, do not inform women
considering abortion about the research.

A confidentiality agreement prevents the details of the settlement, which
was negotiated in September but just now became public, from being
released.

According to Australian attorney Charles Francis, two similar cases were
settled in Australia in 1996. In those instances, the women said the
abortion practitioners failed to provide them information about the
"adverse psychiatric consequences" of abortion.

Also, another suit involving the abortion-breast cancer link is moving
forward in Australia, says Francis.

"In another case to be heard in New South Wales shortly, 'Mary' is suing a
hospital and an abortionist for failure to warn her that she might
subsequently have a bad psychiatric reaction and for failure to warn of
the increased breast-cancer risk," Francis said in a statement yesterday.

Karen Malec is president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
released a statement favoring the decision.

"We're delighted with the settlement of an abortion-breast cancer case,"
Malec said. "The abortion industry and its medical experts know that it
will be far more challenging for them to lie to women about the
abortion-breast cancer research when they are called upon to testify under
oath. Scientists know that abortion causes breast cancer but are afraid to
say so publicly in today's hostile political climate."

According to Dr. Joel Brind, president of the Breast Cancer Prevention
Institute and a leading researcher on the abortion-breast cancer link,
explains that a woman's estrogen level increases hundreds of times above
normal upon conceiving. One of the first physical changes to the pregnant
woman's body occurs in the breasts. That hormone surge leads to the growth
of "undifferentiated" cells in the breast as the body prepares to produce
milk for the coming baby. Undifferentiated cells are vulnerable to the
effects of carcinogens, which can give rise to cancerous tumors later in
life.

In the final weeks of a full-term pregnancy, those cells are "terminally
differentiated" through a still largely unknown process and are ready to
produce milk. Differentiated cells are not vulnerable to carcinogens.
However, should a woman have an abortion prior to cell differentiation,
she is left with abnormally high numbers of undifferentiated cells,
therefore increasing her risk of developing breast cancer.

A case in North Dakota in which a woman is suing an abortion facility in
Fargo for false advertising has its next round in court this March. In
promotional material, the Red River Women's Clinic abortion facility
claims that "none of [the claims about a link between abortion and breast
cancer] are supported by medical research or established medical
organizations."

The trial was scheduled for Sept. 11, but the terrorist attacks on the
U.S. prevented the case from going forward at that time.