LIABILITY OF ABORTION

Legal Liability of abortion

Letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal,

Asbestos 'blob' is 'peanuts'

In a 2 July editorial the WSJ was aghast that people subject to asbestos health risks were launching law suits despite not suffering actual health damage.  Consider the following situation: a man holding a six chamber revolver with only one bullet points it at 'your' head, spins the chambers and pulls the trigger. Only a 'click' results and 'you' suffer a fright but no physical damage. Has a crime been committed?  Yes, reckless endangerment. Now consider the real life example of Stephanie Carter, who was put at risk. "On July 19, [2000] nineteen-year-old Stephanie Carter of Hatboro, PA filed suit in the Philadelphia Country Court of Common Pleas against Charles Benjamin of Philadelphia, PA. The complaint is in regard to an abortion she underwent at one of Benjamin's abortion clinics in May 1998. 

The main cause of action is the failure, according to Carter, of Dr. Benjamin to inform her of any of the  physical or emotional risks of the procedure, most notably including breast cancer." (Abortion-Breast-Cancer Quarterly Update, Joel Brind (PhD), Summer 2000, pp. 3 & 8)  No eminent breast cancer researcher denies that a young pregnant childless woman who has an induced abortion increases her breast cancer risk via increasing her age at first full-term birth.  A woman with a first full-term birth at age 30 years has about 40 percent higher relative breast cancer risk than if she had a first full-term birth at age 20 years.  Since such abortions have been preformed on over 18 million childless young American women and the average successful medical malpractice damage award when breast cancer is involved exceeds $300,000, total damage awards could well exceed $25 billion. Those damage awards exceeding $300,000 are usually not from situations where a doctor actually  increased  a woman's risk of contracting breast cancer! No abortion clinic consent form warns of even possible increased breast cancer risk. I.E. cigarette packages have cancer warnings but abortion clinics do not! And since total U.S. surgical induced abortions still exceed 1.2 million annually, the potential 'tort toll' keeps rising.

By comparison the total legal damages from asbestos damage may turn out to be 'peanuts'.  Higher breast cancer risk via a so-called 'choice' should not be popular among smart young American women.

Health,

Brent Rooney (Independent Medical Researcher)