In February 2003, Dr. Louise Brinton, the National Cancer Institute's chief of the Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, served as chairperson at an NCI workshop in Bethesda, Md., to assess whether abortion was implicated as a breast cancer risk.
In the opinion of "over 100 of the world's leading experts," said the subsequent NCI report, including Dr. Brinton, the answer was no.
One expert disallowed from participating was Dr. Joel Brind, a biology and endocrinology professor who had co-authored a meta-analysis demonstrating an abortion/breast cancer (ABC) link.
Brind protested that the outcome was predetermined by "experts" handpicked by Dr. Brinton who either were not really experts, were dependent on the NCI or other government agencies for grants, or were pro-abortion extremists, such as two who had previously provided paid "expert" court testimony on behalf of abortionists.
Studies concluding there was not an ABC link were included in the workshop analysis; studies concluding there was were not.
At the time, 29 out of 38 studies conducted worldwide over 40 years showed an increased ABC risk, but the NCI workshop nevertheless concluded it was "well established" that "induced abortion is not associated with an increase in breast cancer risk."
Brind went on to write a minority report NCI alludes to on its website without publishing or listing its author and did not even mention in its workshop summary report.
Life went on, except for post-abortive women inflicted with breast cancer anyway.
But six years later something happened. Dr. Brinton either flipped her lid, flipped ideologies, restudied the evidence and decided to recant, or couldn't sleep at night – and she began righting her wrong.
In April 2009, Brinton co-authored a research paper published in the prestigious journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, which concluded that the risk of a particularly deadly form of breast cancer that attacks women under 40 raises 40 percent if a woman has had an abortion.
The paper's subtitle listed Brinton's position at NCI.
Curiously, the paper included as corroboration two studies Brinton's 2003 NCI "experts" had rejected. More curiously, it turns out Brinton co-authored one of those two studies.
For nine months, that little bombshell of a disaster for pro-abortion ideology was published without the NCI acknowledging it or changing its stance.
Then this month, Brind spotted and wrote about Brinton's concession and NCI's hypocrisy.
Now that the mainstream media's interest has been slightly piqued, NCI and Brinton are on the hot seat.
Hello Sibby,
You and your readers would be outraged
if a new surgical procedure had not been
safety validated via published animal
studies. "Suction" (i.e. vaucuum aspiration) abortion was invented in Communist China and was announced (Chinese
Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology) in 1958. The 'Guinea Pigs' were 300 Chinese
women and there are ZERO subsequent published animal studies of "suction" abortion. If you visit our website
( http://www.justiceforkids.webs.com )
you will see that there is a $2010 contest
for the first one to cite an animal study
of "suction" abortion. This contest started in 2009 (when the prize was $2009)
and no one has provided the required citation.
Stop 'Guinea Pigging' WOMEN.
Cheers,
Brent Rooney (MSc)
Research Director, Reduce Preterm Risk
Coalition
3456 Dunbar St. (Suite 146)
Vancouver, Canada V6S 2C2
email: [email protected]
web: http://www.jpands.org/vol13no4/rooney.pdf
Posted by: Brent Rooney | January 22, 2010 at 03:58 PM