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Group Seeks To Reveal Abortion-Breast Cancer Link.(Agnes Bernardo, Pamela Colip and Sandra Duffy-Hawkins sue Planned Parenthood for not informing women of link)
2001 SEP 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
Three California women are suing Planned Parenthood to force the nation's largest provider of abortions to reveal scientific evidence of a substantial link between induced abortion and increased risk of breast cancer.
This announcement was made by the Thomas More Law Center, a national, not-for-profit public-interest law firm.
The women, Agnes Bernardo of Chula Vista, Pamela Colip of Loma Linda, and Sandra Duffy-Hawkins of Sacramento, California, filed suit in the San Diego, California, branch of the state superior court against Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties, which operates an abortion clinic in San Diego, California, as well as Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), headquartered in New York City. The plaintiffs are represented in the action by the Ann Arbor-based Thomas More Law Center. Stuart Fagan is serving as local legal counsel.
Patrick Gillen, the Thomas More Law Center's lead attorney in the case, explained that the complaint alleges that both PPFA and its San Diego affiliate consistently mislead women about the safety of abortion by obscuring evidence that induced abortion causes breast cancer. The plaintiffs are seeking no monetary damages. Rather, they want the court to compel Planned Parenthood to inform women that abortion poses a significant health risk in the form of increased vulnerability to breast cancer, the leading cause of death among middle-age women in America.
"Planned Parenthood advocates a woman's right to choose," Gillen said. "Our clients want all women to have free access to the truthful and accurate information they need to make an informed choice."
The complaint notes that Planned Parenthood touts the safety of abortion both in its printed materials and on its websites, claiming that childbirth carries seven times more risk than a surgical abortive procedure. But the complaint points out that the American Medical Association considers that any death subsequent to an abortion is related to the procedure if it results from a direct complication of an abortion, an indirect complication caused by the chain of events initiated by the abortion, or the aggravation of a preexisting condition.
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