Silence equals death. Dr. Brind predicts that once the group of women who have had legalized abortion available throughout their reproductive lifetime reach postmenopausal age, there will be 40,000 to 50,000 additional cases of breast cancer a year. There is an awakening within the black community. Women need to be educated about the ABC link and the law of informed consent. Although informed consent requirements are often ignored in the abortion context, failure to give adequate information is a breach of the physician's duty to inform the patient, and the physician could be held legally liable for it.
Legislators understand that abortion is an elective procedure.
They are coming to the realization that more women will die from breast cancer if they are not informed about the ABC link. In 1995, Louisiana became the first State in the nation that requires abortion physicians to inform women of the ABC link. Montana and Mississippi followed suit. More importantly, this information has the potential to minimize the number of untimely breast cancer deaths among African-American women and combat this subtle form of genocide. Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King Jr. spoke out not because it was safe or polite, but because their conscience told them it was right.