It is ironic — and sad — that breast cancer awareness is one of the most feminist movements in our culture today.

Breast cancer is, for the most part, a uniquely female health issue.  (Breast cancer can affect men, but doesn’t often, relative to its overall incidence.)  It is (essentially) unique to women specifically because of our unique design as women — because of those features that physically make us different from men.

Honoring that female design is also extremely beneficial when it comes to breast cancer, but is typically ignored.  It’s easier, and more politically correct, to keep pretending we’re the same, and to encourage women to not be women, than it is to speak unpopular truths that have the ability to save lives.

Feminine Activities Protect Against Breast Cancer

Making use of our uniquely feminine abilities is protective against breast cancer.  Having babies — and nursing those babies — actually decreases the risk of breast cancer.  Meanwhile, at least some forms of birth control may increase the risk of breast cancer.  (These factors have a positive impact in terms of ovarian cancer risk, as well.)

Having babies young reduces your cancer risk.  Having lots of babies reduces your cancer risk.Breastfeeding reduces your cancer risk.  The longer you breastfeed, the more your cancer risk is lowered.  The long-term use of hormonal birth control probably raises your cancer risk.  So why would we encourage women to use birth control, avoid having babies, and please use a bottle rather than being so offensive as to nurse a baby in the presence of any other human being?

(And to dig just a little deeper, why would we consider Planned Parenthood — which receives funding from Susan G. Komen — to have a legitimate concern for the health of women [especially in terms of breast cancer], when their entire focus revolves around lifestyle choices that increase that risk?

Would you consider a company to be a trustworthy choice to test for mold in your house if its primary focus was on increasing moisture in houses and encouraging a mold-growing environment?  Or would you conclude that mold testing is one minor way they’re trying to make themselves look good, hoping everyone will look the other way the other 99% of the time when they’re busy causing mold growth?)

If we really want to decrease the incidence of breast cancer, we need to get back to doing things God’s way.