(10/18/2005)
Women's Group Warns about Von Eschenbach's Appointment
New acting FDA Commissioner "is no friend of women"
HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL, Sept. 27 /Christian Wire Service/ --
"Ladies, take cover! Andrew Von Eschenbach was named acting commissioner of
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday," warned Karen Malec,
president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. "The FDA had a
commissioner who could resist political pressure. His abrupt resignation
after two months on the job creates the impression that the Bush
Administration couldn't take the heat from the abortion and the
pharmaceutical industries. The industries want Plan B (morning-after pill)
made available for over-the-counter sales."
"Von Eschenbach is no friend of women," warned Malec, a
cancer survivor. "He's a friend of the anti-woman abortion and
pharmaceutical industries."
Plan B is a high dose of oral contraceptives. The World
Health Organization recognizes combined oral contraceptives as carcinogenic.
[1] Oral contraceptives contain steroidal estrogens, which the U.S.
Department of Health and Services recognizes as a carcinogen. [2]
"Von Eschenbach, director of the U.S. National Cancer
Institute (NCI), can be relied upon to put in the 'political fix' for
business interests, just as he and his subordinates did with their phony
workshop on the abortion-cancer link," asserted Malec.
The workshop was billed as a "comprehensive" examination
of a half-century of research linking abortion with increased breast cancer
risk. [3] In truth, it was a one-sided presentation intended to wipe out the
idea in the public mind that abortion is unsafe.
Professor Joel Brind's paper reported on the NCI's
history of bias and misinformation involving abortion-cancer research. [4]
"Does this administration care that breast cancer kills
40,000 American women yearly?" asked Malec. "Does it possess the courage to
recognize the abortion-cancer link? Will it fold on Plan B? Why do
politicians, like Hillary Clinton, want women on steroidal estrogens?"
Von Eschenbach will go down in history next to Clarence
'Pete' Little. Little was a leader of the ACS and the NCI in the 1950's when
the Tobacco Industry Research Committee hired him to be their spokesperson.
The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an
international women's organization founded to protect the health and save
the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a
risk factor for breast cancer.
References available at: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/press_releases/050926/index.htm
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