Fw: Texas Campaign for Women's Health - HB 15 on House Floor TODAY

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Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 9:50 AM

Subject: Texas Campaign for Women's Health - HB 15 on House Floor TODAY

Texas Campaign for Women's Health--HB 15Please distribute widely!Dear advocates,HB 15 by Corte (R-San ) will be heard on the House floor TODAY! Urgent action is needed NOW to stop the bill from passing with the provision requiring doctors to provide false information to women about a link between abortion and breast cancer.Explain to your representative that the purported link between abortion and breast cancer has been rejected by the nation¹s top panel of scientists.The scientific panel appointed by the director of the National Cancer Institute has concluded that there is no evidence that having an abortion increases the risk of breast cancer later in life. The panel¹s conclusion was based on four new studies and a review of earlier ones that were all reported at a cancer institute workshop in late February. The panel, which was composed of the institute¹s Board of Scientific Advisors and Board of Scientific Counselors, unanimously accepted the findings from the workshop on in March 2003.Every major national cancer organization‹including the National Breast Cancer Coalition and the American Cancer Society‹has rejected the faulty claim that having an elected abortion increases a woman¹s risk for breast cancer.We need to flood the phone lines at the capitol TODAY! Call YOUR REPRESENTATIVE and urge them to vote to strike language that refers to a link between breast cancer and abortion. Look up your Rep. at www.capitol.state.tx.us and CALL TODAY!********************Lesley RamseyProject DirectorTexas Campaign for Women's Health905-A W. OltorfAustin, Texas 78704(512) 448-4857(512) 448-3373 fax