Breast Cancer, Abortion & The Pill

This is info that needs to get out, but is being surpressed because it shows another part of the ugliness that is the "culture of death" that they don't want out there. Please pray that people like Jenni Roer, who is mentioned in the article, are able to find the truth & that it supports what was said by Dr. Angela Lafranchi

Abortion, birth control pill linked to breast cancer, surgeon says

DAYTON — After her best childhood friend died from breast cancer, Ruth Deddens began researching the causes of the dreaded disease.
The Oakwood woman’s investigation eventually led her to Angela Lanfranchi, a clinical assistant professor of surgery at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey and president of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute. Deddens, active in the “40 Days for Life” movement, decided to bring Lanfranchi to town as part of this year’s local pro-life campaign.
Lanfranchi — who insists there are proven links between breast cancer, abortion and birth control pills — was the featured speaker at St. Anthony Church in East Dayton and a Sunday afternoon, Oct. 25, public gathering at the University of Dayton. She also spoke at two invitation-only events hosted by Deddens in memory of her friend, Katherine “Kit” Benham England, who died last Easter.
Lanfranchi labeled hormonal contraceptives “a Group 1 carcinogen” and said that “breasts are different after an induced abortion because they’ve grown and there are more places for the cancer to start.” She said the same thing happens in premature delivery. In contrast, she said, a full-term pregnancy offers protection against the disease because the mother’s mammary glands have fully matured into cells capable of producing milk and most resistant to carcinogens.
“I could kick myself in the butt for waiting until I was 40 to have children,” said the surgeon, who said she was focused on her career and hadn’t realized her fertility rates would drop as she got older. Having children in the early twenties or as a teenager, she said, would also have decreased her breast cancer risk.
Among the other strategies for lowering breast cancer, she said, are limiting alcohol, exercising, not smoking, maintaining a normal body weight, breast-feeding your children, avoiding induced abortions, avoiding premature deliveries, and reducing exposure to estrogen. Lanfranchi advocates natural family planning rather than birth control pills, patches or injections.
Bonnie Borel Donohue of Bellbrook, diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago, attended all four of Lanfranchi’s presentations.
“I had taken the pill before our first child, and after three children I had the Norplant for four-and-a-half years,” she said. “If I had heard her (Lanfranchi) at age 18, I would never have used any hormonal birth control. I didn’t realize they were steroids.”
After hearing Lanfranchi, Jenni Roer of Centerville said she was heading home to do her own research.
“I heard some interesting information, and not all of it is supported by the general medical community,” she said. “I think women should be informed and aggressive about protecting their own health.”
For more information on Lanfranchi’s organization, see www.bcpinstitute.org