Politics
Tuesday July 2, 2002
See today's LifeSiteNews stories
BIRTH CONTROL PILL / BREAST CANCER STUDY ANOTHER VICTIM OF BIASED REPORTING
WASHINGTON, D.C. July 2, 2002 (LSN.ca) - Media reports on a study published in the June 27 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine claiming no link between taking oral contraceptives and breast cancer have come under fire for bias. "Unbiased reporting has taken a permanent holiday," said American Life League president Judie Brown. "The recent media hype over a lopsided study arguing that the birth control pill does not contribute to a rise in the rate of breast cancer is further proof that fair reporting is history."
"A number of other studies document a link to breast cancer from taking the pill," said Mrs. Brown. "The researchers who conducted these studies, as well as other experts in the field, would have certainly commented on the questionable aspects of the New England Journal of Medicine study. But major media outlets failed to interview any of them."
Fr. Joseph Howard, director of the Bioethics Advisory Commission said "the study claims that 10 percent of the cases dropped out of the study after developing breast cancer for reasons such as 'illness' or 'died before interview.' This might have altered the results. It is likely that the risk could have been significantly higher."
The study received rave reviews in publications such as USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. However, American Life League points out that these three newspapers failed to include any comments from researchers who disagreed with the study. The papers also failed to report in detail on previous studies claiming a link between the pill and breast cancer.
"The birth control pill business is big business," said Mrs. Brown. "The birth control pill can cause abortion; and therefore any attack on the pill is an attack on the abortion cartel. And that is something that the media simply does not allow."
Back to TopSHARE THIS STORY: E-mail Print Newsvine Digg Reddit Del.icio.us Facebook
Latest Headlines
- Movie Reviewer for Catholic Bishops' Conference Praises Homosexualist Film - Again
- Vatican Attacked for Defending Natural Family
- Shock: Evangelical Leader Believes in Gay Civil Unions, Says OK to Vote for Obama
- U.K. Catholic Diocese will Continue to Collect Funds for Secularised Adoption Agency
- Too Much Television, Internet Linked to Long-Term Health Problems for Children
- Pro-Abortion Cherie Blair to Speak at Prominent Pontifical University of St. Thomas in Rome
- UK Bishops’ Document on Homosexuality Praised by Prominent Anti-Catholic Homosexualist
- Interview: "The Proposed Coalition Government is Very Very Scary" Says Canadian Pro-Life Leader
- Abortionist Pleads No Contest to Felonies, Faces up to 10 Years in Jail
Most Read this Week
- Behind the Scenes of Volition: Coincidences and Startling Circumstances
- Ad Showing Woman Seducing Santa Promotes Free Morning-After Pills and Condoms for Christmas
- Belgian Couple Sells Baby on EBay
- Just In Time for Christmas - Gift Cards for Abortions from Planned Parenthood
- A Painful, Disease-Ridden Death Isn’t So Bad if You’re Just a White, Heterosexual Male
- Abortion Now Number One Cause of Death in Spain
- UK Catholic Adoption Agencies Voluntarily Refuse Religious Opt-Out Clause for Homosexual Adoption
- Madrid Hospital under Investigation for Telling Truth about Abortion and Sodomy
- God is Pro-Choice Says Nun
- Catholic Bishop: "Go Right Ahead and Arrest Me" Rather than Obey Freedom of Choice Act
MORE NEWS: 
LifeSiteNews.com Home Page Last 10 Days Archives Special Reports
Copyright © LifeSiteNews.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License. You may republish this article or portions of it without request provided the content is not altered and it is clearly attributed to "LifeSiteNews.com". Any website publishing of complete or large portions of original LifeSiteNews articles MUST additionally include a live link to www.LifeSiteNews.com. The link is not required for excerpts. Republishing of articles on LifeSiteNews.com from other sources as noted is subject to the conditions of those sources.