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Experts dispute link between abortion and breast cancer.
2004 JAN 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Abortion politics led Minnesota's Health Department to publish unreliable information about a link between abortions and breast cancer, state health workers wrote in e-mails obtained by the Star Tribune of Minneapolis.
Government e-mails obtained under the Minnesota's open records laws reveal that a division director and others questioned an assertion on the department's web site and in a pamphlet that having an abortion may increase the risk of breast cancer.
The statement, posted in late September 2003, was viewed inside the Health Department as a disservice to citizens and damaging to the department's credibility, according to e-mails circulated in the department in October 2003.
Critics of the department's position on abortion and breast cancer say the statement is designed to frighten women considering abortion.
The e-mails also show that Gov. Tim Pawlenty's office had a role in approving the language on breast cancer risk as well as another controversial statement on fetal pain.
Health Commissioner Dianne Mandernach in an interview defended the web site and pamphlet and said Pawlenty, who opposes abortion, did not direct her to adopt the language. The decision on the wording was decided by both of them, she said.
Mary Manning, the department's director of health promotion and chronic diseases, which includes breast cancer, complained in one e-mail that the agency had taken an "untenable" scientific position.
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