{"id":1886,"date":"2012-02-13T13:32:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T17:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2012-02-13T13:32:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T17:32:40","slug":"debating-the-abortion-breast-cancer-link-with-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1886","title":{"rendered":"“Debating” the Abortion-Breast Cancer Link with “Liberals”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two days ago David Drumm, guest-blogging at Turley, noting my last post<\/a>‘s link to his post about Komen<\/a>, wrote in a comment<\/a> on his post:<\/p>\n

Looks like the link to my post is pushing woo regarding a link between induced abortion and breast cancer. Guess I\u2019ve got a topic for one of tomorrow\u2019s posts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I responded<\/a> in a comment:<\/p>\n

I am looking forward to it. Maybe you will follow the truth wherever it leads. Maybe you won\u2019t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My latter prediction proved the correct one, as Drumm’s guest post yesterday was titled Lying For Jesus: The Abortion\/Breast Cancer Link<\/a>. I called Drumm a liar in my first comment<\/a> on that post, which predictably led to a long and acrimonious comment thread there, and a battle of links to various places on the internet. My participation wound down with this comment<\/a> addressed to me by someone calling herself “idealist707”:<\/p>\n

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What you are doing is prevaricating on a large scale.<\/p>\n

Did you really have hopes that you could start a legal case accusing the state,et al for misleading women who have abortions and later get breast cancer, on the basis of information withholding, a la cigarettes and lung cancer?
\nAnd you lost money on it too, you say on your site?<\/p>\n

Stop beating a dead horse. The bell has rung. Go get a new life as confirmation of you worth. You won\u2019t find support here for your false-flagging of concern for breast cancer patients who were denied knowledge of the effects of abortions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I replied<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Well, when my law review comment was distributed to every member of the U.S. House of Representatives by a Congressman \/ M.D. along with a letter urging them to read it, which I don\u2019t believe typically happens to law review comments, my hopes for successful litigation went up significantly.<\/p>\n

As I also indicate on my site, I\u2019ve long ago washed my hands of this issue, and have, as you suggest I do, moved on. After all, not only has the \u201cbreast cancer awareness\u201d movement and the \u201cpro-choice\u201d movement long known the facts underlying this issue, so has the so-called \u201cpro-life\u201d movement, and contrary to popular belief the latter movement has for the most part done precious little about it over the years. It doesn\u2019t really fit in with its agenda and its priorities. If none of these people care about it, why should I?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an understatement to say I \u201cwon\u2019t find support here\u201d for what I\u2019m saying, no matter how true it might be. It\u2019s a rather inconvenient truth. I was quite naive when I started this whole thing. I figured everyone, liberals included, would agree that women considering abortion had the right to be informed about this information prior to undergoing an abortion. (Indeed, all of my fellow law students on the editorial board of the law review who decided to publish my comment were \u201cpro-choice,\u201d and you can bet they rigorously scrutinized it prior to agreeing to publish it.) Boy was I wrong. I had yet to discover that abortion, and any perceived threat to its legitimacy, trumped everything, and especially trumped the rights and autonomy of women who have abortions.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t go out of my way to pick this fight here. But I think I\u2019ve made my point.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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