{{Short description|Awareness campaign}} {{for|the 2012 book|Silent No More (book)}} {{multiple issues| {{notability|organizations|date=March 2024}} {{primary sources|date=March 2024}} }} The '''Silent No More''' '''Awareness''' Campaign is an anti-abortion initiative based in the United States and was established in 2003 by Janet Morana, who is the Executive Director of Priests for Life, and Georgette Forney, the President of Anglicans for Life.<ref>{{Cite web |title=20 Years of Being Silent No More {{!}} Anglicans For Life |url=https://anglicansforlife.org/2022/11/20-years-of-being-silent-no-more/ |access-date=2024-01-18 |language=en-US}}</ref> It operates in collaboration with Priests for Life and Anglicans for Life to raise awareness about the negative impact of abortion.
==Position and aims == The Silent No More Awareness Campaign has previously promoted the disproven abortion–breast cancer hypothesis,<ref name="WHO">{{cite web |title=WHO – Induced abortion does not increase breast cancer risk |url=https://apps.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact240.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110113001029/http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs240/en/index.html |archive-date=13 January 2011 |access-date=11 January 2011 |work=who.int}}</ref><ref name="who-safe">{{cite book |url=http://extranet.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/70914/1/9789241548434_eng.pdf |title=Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems |publisher=World Health Organization |year=2012 |isbn=9789241548434 |edition=2nd |page=49 |format=PDF |quote=Sound epidemiological data show no increased risk of breast cancer for women following spontaneous or induced abortion.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Abortion, Miscarriage, and Breast Cancer Risk |url=http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/risk/abortion-miscarriage |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101221084337/http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/abortion-miscarriage |archive-date=21 December 2010 |access-date=11 January 2011 |publisher=National Cancer Institute}}</ref><ref name="oversight">{{cite web |title=Politics & Science – Investigating the State of Science Under the Bush Administration |url=http://oversight.house.gov/features/politics_and_science/example_breast_cancer.htm |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091104194534/http://oversight.house.gov/features/politics_and_science/example_breast_cancer.htm |archive-date=November 4, 2009 |access-date=14 April 2008 |work=oversight.house.gov}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Is Abortion Linked to Breast Cancer? |url=http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/BreastCancer/MoreInformation/is-abortion-linked-to-breast-cancer |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131054059/http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/BreastCancer/MoreInformation/is-abortion-linked-to-breast-cancer |archive-date=31 January 2011 |access-date=11 January 2011 |publisher=American Cancer Society}}</ref><ref name="ACOG2009">{{cite journal |last1=Committee On Gynecologic |first1=Practice |date=June 2009 |title=ACOG Committee Opinion No. 434: induced abortion and breast cancer risk |journal=Obstetrics and Gynecology |volume=113 |issue=6 |pages=1417–8 |doi=10.1097/AOG.0b013e3181ac067d |pmid=19461458 |doi-access=free}}</ref> which suggests a connection between abortion and breast cancer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Silent No More Founders: From China, We Can Learn the Truth About Abortion and Breast Cancer - Standard Newswire |url=http://www.standardnewswire.com/index.php?module=releases&task=view&releaseID=7290 |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=www.standardnewswire.com}}</ref> It has joined with other groups in protesting any modifications to the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bazelon |first=Emily |date=2007-01-21 |title=Is There a Post-Abortion Syndrome? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/magazine/21abortion.t.html |access-date=2022-09-30 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
==Public notability== [[Image:Silent No More marchers at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. (2013).JPG|thumb|Silent No More marchers at the 2013 March for Life (Washington, D.C.)]] Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., frequently speaks on behalf of Silent No More. King herself has had two abortions and has spoken critically about the link between racism and abortion, referring to them as "evil twins, born of the same lie".<ref>King, Alveda "The Abortionist's Eye is on Us," http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/20/the-abortionists-eye-is-on-us/ 2009-07-20 Retrieved 2009-08-20</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.silentnomoreawareness.org Campaign Website]
Category:Anti-abortion organizations in the United States Category:American organizations established in 2003