Bosom Friends?

                                 Bosom Truth

Many of the local newspapers and TV news channels have put out a significant amount of material on breast cancer. They published articles and televised events like breast cancer walks and marches which raised over 200,000 dollars for cancer research institutes. This is all fine and good and necessary to raise awareness of the problem. My question, however, is: why is a dead and sullen silence maintained in regard to some of the more evident causes of breast cancer, such as chemical contraceptives and abortions? Why aren’t these women told or warned about the harmful effects of these breast cancer causing elements and practices? I heard not one word spoken no one line read in any of the newspapers saying that women who swallow chemical contraceptives or have their babies murdered by abortion will have an 80% risk of getting breast cancer. Therefore, what use is it to raise money to resolve a problem if the causes are willfully ignored and women kept in dark in regards to the issue? Or is the cancer society so stupid and short-sighted that it can’t see beyond its nose a situation whose  cause is so evident?

         I am not saying that every woman who has breast cancer has had an abortion or used chemical contraceptives (many got it by other means), but that such  factors should not be purposely ignored and hidden to them  by those who want to defend these evil practices to the cost of the poor women’s lives. If I know that smoking causes lung cancer and I hide this fact from smokers because I own a tobacco factory and do not want to hurt my business, I will therefore suggest marches and the wearing of T-shirts that say: “Lung cancer awareness day”, but will hide the information that ties smoking to this disease. This is an extremely insincere and dishonest way to deal with unfortunate victims of disease and shows that one’s selfishness is more important than their true good. If people are truly concerned about getting rid of breast cancer, then bare the facts and expose the full truth to the public.

Father Anthony Mellace