Ebola in Texas..

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

Or the number one attributing factor leading to heart disease, OBESITY!

Then again only a small minority of women, 1 in 3 get an abortion.

If the whole world thought like you, breast cancer, affecting 1 in 6 women and breast cancer deaths 1 in 36 women would be an afterthought.

Heredity is the leading indicator of whether a person will develop heart disease, not obesity (all obesities are not created equal, for that matter).

Breast cancer has been turned into an incredible money-making enterprise for some not-very-ethical groups, who have persuaded the general public it's a much bigger health crisis than it actually is (full disclosure: my mom died of breast cancer at age 35; I'm well aware of the devastation cancer can bring on a young family. But you're not going to catch me wearing pink ribbons in October).

I wish it were more common knowledge how many women have had an abortion, or how the majority of women seeking abortion already have at least one child. But until the restrictions start affecting rich and middle class women (which will probably be the Fourth of Never), it's This Common Secret, to borrow from the name of a very good book on the subject.

In fact, your post just reaffirms the media's propensity for not addressing actual issues in favor of attention-grabbing ones. Which is not a criticism of you; the media makes it's money by persuading us of what we should be paying attention to. Hey, I fell for the goddamn injured-kid-kicked-out-of-KFC story earlier this summer.