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BY LifeSiteNews.com PORTLAND, January 26, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Monday marked the completion of a successful lawsuit against an abortion clinic and a physician for performing an abortion on a 15-year-old girl without informing her of the psychological risks and the increased risk of breast cancer. It is the second abortion-cancer lawsuit to be successfully prosecuted in the U.S. and the first case to obtain a judgment. The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, a women’s group which has worked for years to have the scientific and medical communities come clean on the known link between abortion and breast cancer applauded the decision. Karen Malec, president of the coalition told LifeSiteNews.com that recently the National Catholic Bioethics Center confirmed abortion is related to breast cancer and chastised the scientific community for being too cowardly to speak out against politically motivated “shoddy research” manufactured to show no link.  All Women’s Health Services, a clinic in Portland, Oregon, made an offer of judgment last year, allowing the plaintiff to win the lawsuit without a trial. The judge signed the agreement on January 24, 2005. The amount of the judgment is confidential. The teenaged plaintiff has a family history of breast cancer and indicated a history of cancer on the clinic intake forms.  According to research in 1994 by Janet Daling and her colleagues at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, teenagers with a family history of the disease who procure abortions before age 18 have an incalculably high breast cancer risk.  Abortions that occur before the birth of a first child are the most carcinogenic, a finding supported by biological and epidemiological evidence. Malec, remarked, “Women have been told lies about the research and have been cruelly exploited by two industries - the breast cancer fundraising industry and the abortion industry.  Women will not receive justice until they file civil lawsuits.”  jhw http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/second-successful-abortion-cancer-lawsuit-in-us-completed/

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