Abortion’s Forgotten Victim: The Aborted Baby’s Father
Raimundo Rojas
The articles and blog posts leading up to the 40th commemoration of the single greatest American tragedy all tell a similar story. The thread that runs common through all the stories is the unimaginable numbers. And the numbers drive the narrative of a nation painfully realizing that there are now fifty-five million children, who have been poisoned, dismembered, shredded and suffocated by abortionists who were given the right to do so by judicial fiat.
Much, and rightly so, is also being written about the walking wounded – the tens of million of women who have been physically and psychologically injured by abortion – some tragically suffering irreparable harm. Their struggle to cope as they come to terms with their abortion experience must be documented and repeated so that others can avoid the loss and pain.
But little has been written or noted about the other immediate victim of abortion – the aborted child’s father.
Everyday more the collective mindset of “rights” gains ground in this country. We see sophisticated advertisements on all media for a myriad of issues – from animal rights to gay rights, from the right to bear arms to women’s reproductive rights. It’s the catchiest of all catch phrases – our rights.
Forty years ago, however, the Supreme Court opined that men have zero reproductive rights – none what so ever. Because of Roe v Wade a man in these United States has no say as to when he can be a father. He can’t decided how many children he will have nor how to space them out. He is even powerless to defend the life of the child he has already conceived.
I met Julio at an awards banquet given at the end of a fishing tournament four years ago. I sat with him, his wife and two of their three kids. During dinner we found out that I was born in the same Cuban village as his parents were. We’ve become friends and because he’s a great fishing captain I now go out on his boat two or three times a year. We stay in-touch using social media and because of my numerous postings he knows quite clearly how I fight to end abortion.
After these most recent and apocalyptic elections, I spent 6 weeks in the Florida Keys licking my wounds. Part of my healing process was to fish and of course I turned to my buddy Julio to take me night fishing in the Florida Straits. We finally squared our schedules and we went out in early December – but Julio was off his game and a usually eager fisherman just didn’t feel much like fishing. We headed in relatively quickly and over a couple of beers he told me his story.
Twenty-three years before he’d been engaged for a few months to a young woman he’d dated for a couple of years. They had yet to set a wedding date when she told him that she was pregnant. Julio wanted to marry immediately and was thrilled at the thought of being a Dad. But the young woman had other plans; within a month she’d broken off the engagement and had gotten an abortion without telling him beforehand.
That night, out on the water, he’d been thinking about his aborted child who would have been born during the first week of December. This big heavily built, robust fisherman looks up at me with tears welling in his eyes and says, “He’d be turning 23 years old this week.” Nothing I said comforted him.
The fact that even if Julio had had the wherewithal 23 years ago to call someone for legal help, he wouldn’t have gotten any. There is no injunction, no legal recourse, nothing that he could have tried to save his child’s life.
In a day in age when every special interest group clamors for distinction on the rights totem pole, fathers remain at the bottom of the heap. For 40 years we have not had a say. For 40 years our reproductive rights have been denied. For 40 years we’ve been helpless, as we’ve been forced to stand by and watch our children taken to the slaughter.
The tragedy that is Roe v Wade must end because there must be no more dead children, or injured mothers, or fatherhood denied. Enough.
Abortion Has Caused 300K Breast Cancer Deaths Since Roe
A leading breast cancer researcher says abortion has caused at least 300,000 cases of breast cancer causing a woman’s death since the Supreme Court allowed virtually unlimited abortion in its 1973 case.
With tens of millions of abortions since the high court’s decision and research confirming abortion increases the risk of contracting breast cancer, undoubtedly a large number of breast cancer cases, caused by abortion, have occurred over the last 38 years.
Professor Joel Brind, an endocrinologist at Baruch College in New York, worked with several scientists on a 1996 paper published in the Journal of Epidemiol Community Health showing a “30% greater chance of developing breast cancer” for women who have induced abortions. He recently commented on how many women have become victims.
“If we take the overall risk of breast cancer among women to be about 10% (not counting abortion), and raise it by 30%, we get 13% lifetime risk,” Brind explains. Using the 50 million abortions since Roe v. Wade figure, we get 1.5 million excess cases of breast cancer. At an average mortality of 20% since 1973, that would mean that legal abortion has resulted in some 300,000 additional deaths due to breast cancer since Roe v. Wade.”
Brind said his estimate excludes deaths from the use of abortion to delay first full term pregnancies – a recognized breast cancer risk.
Karen Malec, the head of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, a public awareness group, says the number of studies showing the abortion-breast cancer link continues to grow in the years since Brind’s groundbreaking 1996 analysis of the major studies at that time.
“During the last 21 months, four epidemiological studies and one review reported an abortion-breast cancer link,” she noted. “One study included National Cancer Institute branch chief Louise Brinton as co-author. We count nearly 50 published epidemiological studies since 1957 reporting a link. Biological and experimental studies also support it.”
“Experts proved in medical journals that nearly all of the roughly 20 studies denying the link are seriously flawed (fraudulent). Like the tobacco-cancer cover-up, these are used to snow women into believing abortion is safe,” Malec added.
Surgeons like Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, a Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey who has extensively explained how abortion increases the breast cancer risk, have seen first-hand how abortion hurts women.
In 2002, Angela Lanfranchi, MD testified under oath in a California lawsuit against Planned Parenthood that she had private conversations with leading experts who agreed abortion raises breast cancer risk, but they refused to discuss it publicly, saying it was “too political.”
As the co-director of the Sanofi-aventis Breast Care Program at the Steeplechase Cancer Center, Lanfranchi has treated countless women facing a breast cancer diagnosis. Lanfranchi was named a 2010 Castle Connolly NY Metro Area “Top Doc” in breast surgery.
In an article she wrote for the medical journal Linacre Quarterly, Lanfranchi talks about why abortion presents women problems and increases their breast cancer risk:
Induced abortion boosts breast cancer
risk because it stops the normal physiological changes in the breast
that occur during a full term pregnancy and that lower a mother’s breast
cancer risk. A woman who has a full term pregnancy at 20 has a 90%
lower risk of breast cancer than a woman who waits until age 30.
Breast tissue after puberty and before a
term pregnancy is immature and cancer-vulnerable. Seventy five percent
of this tissue is Type 1 lobules where ductal cancers start and 25
percent is Type 2 lobules where lobular cancers start. Ductal cancers
account for 85% of all breast cancers while lobular cancers account for
12-15% of breast cancers.
As soon as a woman conceives, the embryo
secretes human chorionic gonadotrophin or hCG, the hormone we check for
in pregnancy tests.
HCG causes the mother’s ovaries to
increase the levels of estrogen and progesterone in her body resulting
in a doubling of the amount of breast tissue she has; in effect, she
then has more Type 1 and 2 lobules where cancers start.
After mid pregnancy at 20 weeks, the
fetus/placenta makes hPL, another hormone that starts maturing her
breast tissue so that it can make milk. It is only after 32 weeks that
she has made enough of the mature Type 4 lobules that are cancer
resistant so that she lowers her risk of breast cancer.
Induced abortion before 32 weeks leaves
the mother’s breast with more vulnerable tissue for cancer to start. It
is also why any premature birth before 32 weeks, not just induced
abortion, increases or doubles breast cancer risk.
By the end of her pregnancy, 85% of her
breast tissue is cancer resistant. Each pregnancy thereafter decreases
her risk a further 10%.
A woman can use this information to make
an informed decision about her pregnancy. If she chooses to abort her
pregnancy for whatever reason, she should start breast screening about
8-10 years later so that if she does develop a cancer, it can be found
early and treated early for a better outcomes.