Breast Cancer Unawareness
I went to Safeway last night on a targeted run to buy my husband’s favorite yogurt – Yoplait. While there, I also picked up a beautiful large pumpkin. It being October and Breast Cancer Awareness month, Safeway now has pink labels on everything that say “participating item”. The yogurt was one such item. I’ve always figured that if I didn’t send my labels in, no donation would come from us. But the “participating item” is a new thing. I want to know where my money is going, so I started asking questions.
The Safeway checker started to ring up my yogurts. I asked him what breast cancer charity Safeway is donating money to. He continued to ring up my items, saying it’s some breast cancer charity. (No, Safeway checker, that’s not good enough!) So I ask him which one, and whether it is Susan G. Komen (“SGK”). He didn’t know and continues to ring up my items. I told him to stop and to please find someone who could answer my question. A manager walked by and we flagged him down. I asked him whether the money was going to SGK. He responded that SGK was one of their “partners”.
I told him to put all of the yogurt back. I explained to the checker and the manager that I don’t donate to SGK because of their support for Planned Parenthood, and that both abortion and hormonal birth control (which Planned Parenthood provides) cause an increase in breast cancer incidence. They looked stunned.
I walked out of the store with a pumpkin.
I stopped sending in my Yoplait yogurt labels years ago when I starting putting the puzzle pieces together…. and when I learned that they had donated to Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider and also a supplier of the pill. Abortion and hormonal contraception are directly responsible, by the same biological mechanism, for the breast cancer of hundreds of thousands of women. If you count the abortions alone, they would be the leading cause of death in the U.S. So I no longer participate in any fundraising for, and give no donations to, SGK. Everytime I see a pink ribbon, I look to see what organization the money goes to.
Let me say that I am also a cancer survivor. I had a brain tumor in 2005. It’s been almost 6 years and I got the “all clear”, “you’re cured”, in December 2010. I’m not unsympathetic to the cause. I’ve also done a lot of volunteer work for a local breast cancer foundation – not SGK. Because of that work I have learned a lot more about breast cancer than I might have otherwise.
I am now firmly convinced that the biggest culprit for approximately 85% of all breast cancer is hormones. The World Health Organization declared estrogen a class 1 carcinogen (highest risk) years ago. The Food & Drug Administration did likewise a few years ago. The National Institutes of Health did a study, the Womens Health Initiative (WHI) in 2002 that found that combined Hormone Replacement Therapy (“HRT”) was actually causing breast cancer. The link was so clear that they stopped the study almost 3 years ahead of schedule because they were just giving women breast cancer. HRT has the same kinds of hormones in it as the pill: estrogens and progesterones. This was followed up by another study in Marin County, CA (1 of 2 places in the US with the highest rate of breast cancer – the other is Long Island, NY), that found a 33% decrease in breast cancer in white women over 50 because they had stopped taking HRT after the WHI results were reported.
Abortion is also a cause of breast cancer. The most recent studies out of China (with its mandatory abortions/contraception) show an enormous link. In fact, 53 out of 66 studies over 54 years show a link. This is because abortions occur after the estrogen/progesterone hormone surge and before the lactation hormone surge which protects you from breast cancer.
There is a simple, completely safe, and 100% natural method of reducing the risk for 85% of breast cancer. Don’t take hormonal birth control and don’t have an abortion. We women must learn to love ourselves and our babies. We women must learn to respect our bodies and the power that we were given: what our female body is created to do – have babies! If it’s the wrong time to be a parent, be responsible and be abstinent. If you can’t take care of a baby and you are already pregnant, then put the baby up for adoption. You will create a family and make everyone happy, including yourself. (We adopted and it was the best thing we’ve ever done.) Someday, you might even meet your child who will thank you for his/her wonderful life!
