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WOW NH: tell 'em abortion causes breast cancer, and make 'em wait
New Hampshire House Passes A Bill That Falsely Claims Abortion Causes Breast Cancer
By Guest Blogger on Mar 15, 2012 at 12:00 pmAcross the nation, lawmakers are debating several different anti-abortion bills seeking to make it more difficult for women to have an abortion. One tactic is ?informed consent? measures that require women to be given information before an abortion ? even if they do not want that information or getting it would violate medical guidelines.
Now, the New Hampshire House has passed a bill that, along with mandating a 24-hour waiting period, requires doctors to give women ?informational materials? before an abortion that aren?t even accurate, including that there is a link between abortion and breast cancer. Here?s the text of the bill:
It is scientifically undisputed that full-term pregnancy reduces a woman?s lifetime risk of breast cancer. It is also undisputed that the earlier a woman has a first full-term pregnancy, the lower her risk of breast cancer becomes, because following a full-term pregnancy the breast tissue exposed to estrogen through the menstrual cycle is more mature and cancer resistant.
In fact, for each year that a woman?s first full-term pregnancy is delayed, her risk of breast cancer rises 3.5 percent. The theory that there is a direct link between abortion and breast cancer builds upon this undisputed foundation.
The problem is that a direct link between abortion and breast cancer is not only disputed, it has also been rejected by multiple health organizations. The National Institutes of Health, American Cancer Society, and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists are a few of the groups who say no such link has been scientifically proven. Even the Susan G. Komen Foundation denies there is a link.
That has not stopped Republicans, including presidential candidate Rick Santorum, from peddling this theory. Nor is New Hampshire the first state where such a bill has been proposed ? Kansas and Oklahoma have both considered legislation with similar provisions. But it is hard to understand how a bill can protect women?s health when it gives them incorrect information.
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Re: WOW NH: tell 'em abortion causes breast cancer, and make 'em wait
let's make it legal to lie to female patients.
Momi, hush now. There is no war on women.
Kansas just proposed legislation to include the same lie. It also includes the lie that people who have abortions suffer from more mental illness, although that study is more recently debunked than the breast cancer one.
And while I'm at it, how about the "fetus feels pain" bs that started with the silent scream in the mid 80s and has also been debunked?
I guess we women are really too stupid to think for ourselves. We need the menfolks telling us how to ignore science.
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New Hampshire??? "Live free or die" my ass. Guess you can't live free from false health information there now.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DIf a dr is mandated to speak such lies, is there anything restricting them from preceding with "I must now read a statement mandated by the government and full of lies. I will provide you with the facts after"? Are they allowed to have a fact sheet disproving the bs?
I know there was that one story I posted of the nurse turning up the music to drown out the doctor. Are there other ways of getting around the letter of the law in a similar fashion?
I don't worry about the doctors who would do this (I'm sure there are ways around it, like on menus how you see the statement about raw eggs being unhealthy, as an asterisk to the delicious Cesar salad).
I worry about the doctors who are more in the middle, or more "conservative"... who, prior to a law like this, wouldn't feel scientifically supported telling their patients that an abortion will cause breast cancer, but now having a heartfelt convo with somebody who actually trusts them.
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I could be wrong about that since I'm remembering off the top of my head. I'm pretty sure there was really just one small study that said abortion = breast cancer, and it was disproven later on. Not that actually adjusting viewpoints based on current research is something these people are known for.