one player facing a year-long suspension for repeated marijuana use. a rookie got a five game suspension for taking freebies in college. another player suspended four games for fighting with his own body guard. the episode highlighting the scourge of domestic violence. one study showing one in four women are victims. i was totally taken aback when i heard about the penalty and how how weak it was. reporter: with some believing the nfl is out of touch an opportunity for the nfl to speak districtly to women and to families and they fumbled the ball. reporter: the league still has questions to answer. ryan smith, abc news, new york. topping our health headlines this morning, a brand new study connecting breast cancer risk to birth control pills. a leading cancer journal reports that women aged 20 to 49 on the pill appear to have a 50% higher risk for breast cancer. women taking moderate to high doses of oral contraceptions, contraceptives seem to face the biggest cancer risk
on politics. here is what the dolan the cardinal, rather said about this. he ll be here on an interview this morning. we re going to continue to express what we believe, not just a religious point of view, but a constitutional point of view, that america is at her best when the government doesn t force us group of citizens, moral cede, to moral convictions. alisyn: the whole issue, oral contraceptions, and if religion the cardinal says it plays the right amount of role in politics and benefits, when you have a religion theme in it, you can t just ignore we see more of that later and he s been very outspoken certainly on the pulpit lately, talking about the conscience of catholics and the way that politics can meld nicely with religion as well.