Originally published October 27 2005
Canadian groups battle over claim that breast cancer is linked to abortion
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation is angry at Life Canada for using its trademark pink ribbon on billboards that claim there is a link between abortion and breast cancer.
The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation is upset that an anti-abortion group is linking the procedure to breast cancer, and appropriating the foundation's pink ribbon trademark to do it.
Life Canada has put up three billboards in Alberta that display a large pink ribbon and the words "stop the cover up" along with the address of a website that claims that having an abortion is a factor in getting breast cancer.
Jim Hudson, with the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, says the website is misleading, and that they are looking at whether Life Canada has infringed on their trademark by using the pink ribbon.
"The best piece of evidence that's been published was actually quite a large, 2004 Oxford study that is a re-analysis from 53 studies, including 83,000 women from 16 countries," Hudson said.
Joanne Byfield, president of Life Canada and who also belongs to Pro-Life Alberta, says more than 70 studies "have looked at the relationship between the two and about 80 per cent of those studies have shown some sort of link between the two."
"We are concerned about this campaign, the evidence that they're presenting about a link between abortion and breast cancer is not what we would accept as the current evidence for a relationship between abortion and breast cancer," he said.
The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation estimates that 21,600 women will be diagnosed with the disease this year, and about 5,300 will die from it.
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women.
October is breast cancer awareness month, following the annual CIBC Run for the Cure fundraising event held in September.
In August, almost 2,300 people participated in the Calgary Weekend to End Breast Cancer 60-kilometre walk-a-thon, which raised more than $7 million.
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