Politics and Your Health!

As an American, you may think you live in a free country, but despite the words Jefferson penned into our Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776, politics can, very much, limit your right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

It can even mess with your health!

Politics is obviously embedded in the medical/pharmaceutical complex and state licensing agencies who are less concerned about your health than protecting themselves and expanding their stranglehold on your right to take responsibility for it... or even make an informed decision about it.

This applies to organizations such as the American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute, as well.

As possibly the most scandalous example, let's take a look at breast cancer and how it is politically tied to the abortion debate dividing our country.

At the heart of the issue are two well-known but seldom reported facts:

1. An early full first term pregnancy can protect a woman from later developing breast cancer.

2. An induced abortion can significantly increase her chances of later developing breast cancer.

Also note these facts:

1. What was once a disease of older women has become a young woman's disease.

2. Political groups who call for more money and research because a cancer that in the 1960s affected one woman in fourteen now effects closer to one in eight, do not want the facts about the relationship of abortion to breast cancer disclosed to women considering one because it would undercut their political agenda.

Not only is this dishonest, but for anyone who claims to champion women's health, it's hypocritical.

Lack of full disclosure also has the potential of becoming a malpractice issue, as has already happened in Australia.

So let's walk past the political sideshow and get to the potentially life-saving information anyone considering an abortion should have.

Studies have repeatedly demonstrated that abortion can increase a woman's chance of later developing breast cancer by significant amounts, some of them close to or better than 200%. One study conducted by the New York Department of Health in 1989 showed a 300% increased risk of breast cancer for women who had two abortions in succession.

As pro-choice researcher, Dr. Janet Dailing of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has said, "I would have loved to have found no association between breast cancer and abortion, but our research is rock solid, and our data is accurate. It's not a matter of believing, it's a matter of what is."

So what is the biology behind the abortion/breast cancer link?

- At birth, the cells that make up the lobules, the milk glands, of a woman's breasts are primitive, that is, immature.

- Though they begin to mature at puberty, they are still primitive and can be affected by carcinogens.

- Once pregnant, a woman's breasts begin to enlarge as cells begin to "proliferate," multiply rapidly, to prepare her for nursing her child.

- During the third trimester of pregnancy, this "proliferation" of cells begins to "differentiate" or mature into milk-producing tissue.

- As the pregnancy comes to term, cell "differentiation" is completed resulting in mature, milk-producing lobules.

And this is important:

MILK PRODUCING TISSUE IS CANCER RESISTANT!

But when a pregnancy is aborted, breast cells do not complete their "differentiation." Instead, they leave a woman's breasts with more, undifferentiated, cancer-vulnerable cells than they contained before pregnancy. And estrogens, whether environmental or released during her cycles can, among other things, trigger cancerous growth among them.

Thus, the incidence of breast cancer has shot up 40% since abortion became an acceptable procedure in 1973.

This is what health politics -- health care with an agenda -- doesn't want you to know!

It's also what anyone who may be considering an abortion has every right to know. Tell them about it!

Till next time,

Lawrence Stepanowicz, ND

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