Angela Lanfranchi (born June 12, 1950) is an American breast cancer surgeon and

anti-abortion Anti-abortion movements, also self-styled as pro-life or abolitionist movements, are involved in the abortion debate advocating against the practice of abortion and its legality. Many anti-abortion movements began as countermovements in respons ...

activist. In 1999, she co-founded the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute with

Joel Brind Joel Lewis Brind is a professor of human biology and endocrinology at Baruch College Baruch College (officially the Bernard M. Baruch College) is a public college in New York City. It is a constituent college of the City University of New York ...

, John T. Bruchalski, and William L. Toffler. Lanfranchi is the president of the institute. She is known for advocating for a link between abortion and breast cancer, as well as for claiming that

the pill The combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP), often referred to as the birth control pill or colloquially as "the pill", is a type of birth control that is designed to be taken orally by women. The pill contains two important hormones: progesti ...

has serious adverse health effects, such as causing women who take it to prefer partners more genetically similar to themselves. In 2014, she was the keynote speaker at the

World Congress of Families The World Congress of Families (WCF) is a United States coalition that promotes Christian right values internationally. It opposes same-sex marriage, pornography, and abortion, while supporting a society built on "the voluntary union of a man and ...

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