Saturday, October 28, 2006

Talk about grasping at straws

A billboard has gone up in Maple ridge for Breast Cancer Month (October).
At least one breast cancer survivor in Maple Ridge is offended.

Jennifer St. Hilaire said she nearly drove off the road when she passed the intersection at Lougheed Highway and Kennedy Road Saturday afternoon.
“I did a double take,” she said.
A billboard plastered with the face of a pretty young woman screamed out: “Why wasn't I told?” At the bottom was a web site address: www.abortionbreastcancer.com.

“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” St. Hilaire said.
Their website cites scientific research that shows a link between the two.
Findings from the National Cancer Institute show that induced
abortion is not associated with an increase in breast cancer risk.
Pitt Meadows mayor Don MacLean finds the ad distasteful but said the district is no an arbiter of good taste.
The Jim Pattison Group billboard is on property owned by the Ministry of Highways.
Council has referred St. Hilaire to Advertising Standard Canada, a regulatory body that takes complaints about advertising.
“It’s not up to council to make a decision on it,” said MacLean.
St. Hilaire believes the billboard should be taken down by the district since it is within their boundaries.


I think this is a billboard about abortion, not breast cancer.
Regardless of where anyone stands on the matter of abortion the 2 are not related. I don't think it's fair to anyone, not to women who have had to go through something as traumatic as breast cancer, abortion, or both.
I really hope the city does the right thing and finds a way to take the billboard down, October is breast cancer month, not anti-abortion month.

This is quoted from the National Cancer Institute
studies consistently showed no association between induced and spontaneous abortions and breast cancer risk.

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