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Baby Reduces Breast Cancer Chances
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
October 2, 2007
Seattle, WA (LifeNews.com) --
Researchers at a cancer center in Seattle have confirmed what previous
studies have shown: women who bear children have a reduced risk of
developing breast cancer. They say fetal cells “transplanted” to the
mother before birth are a source of this protective effect. That's
something that abortion denies.
Scientists at the University of
Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center presented their
results in the October 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the
American Association for Cancer Research.
They studied a concept called fetal
microchimerism, which is the ability of cells from a growing unborn baby
to take up long-term residence in the mother's body.
Vijayakrishna K. Gadi, M.D., Ph.D.,
assistant professor at the University of Washington and research
associate at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, discussed the
findings in a statement LifeNews.com obtained.
"Our research found that these
persisting fetal cells may be giving a woman an edge against developing
breast cancer,” he said. “This experiment of nature is all the more
fascinating because for years doctors treated a number of different
cancers by transplanting cells from one person to another."
Fetal microchimerism has been
implicated as a mechanism of autoimmune disease but it may also benefit
mothers by putting the immune system on alert for malignant cells to
destroy.
The researchers recruited 82 women, 35
of whom had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Approximately two-thirds of the women
studied have had children, and more than half of the participants had
given birth to at least one son. That's important because the scientists
examined whether any of the women had the male Y chromosome among female
cells in a blood sample.
Among the women with breast cancer,
only five had male DNA in their bloodstream.
Three of the five previously gave
birth to sons, one had had an abortion and the other had never been
knowingly pregnant.
In total, about 14 percent of all
women in the breast cancer group had male DNA in their bloodstream
compared to 43 percent of women in the non-breast cancer group.
According to Dr. Gadi, these findings
could provide a starting point for future research on the role of fetal
microchimerism in the prevention of cancer.
And pro-life groups say the findings
show women should be encouraged to have children instead of having
abortions as it helps protect them from contracting breast cancer.
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Abortion-Breast Cancer Study Found Having Baby Reduces Cancer Risk
by
Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
April 24, 2007
Boston, MA (LifeNews.com)
--
A study by Harvard University researchers that's come under fire
for denying the link between abortion and breast cancer also contained
confirmation that carrying a pregnancy to term helps reduce a woman's
risk. Pro-life advocates say the finding shows women should be encouraged
to seek abortion alternatives.
Lost in
the abortion-breast cancer link debate was the fact that the researchers
affirmed previous studies showing that a full-term pregnancy before age 35
reduces the long-term risk of developing breast cancer.
 They
said the fact was well-established and that their own research renewed the
evidence for it.
Karin
Michels of Brigham and Women's Hospital, who headed the study, said that
someone who has had an abortion "misses out on the potential benefit she
would have had if she had a full-term pregnancy."
Responding
to the finding on childbirth, Karen Malec, of the Coalition on
Abortion/Breast Cancer, told LifeNews.com that "Even the NCI agrees that
increased childbearing, starting at an early age, protects women from
breast cancer."
"Legislators have a moral obligation to require abortion providers to
inform expectant mothers that if they have an abortion, their breast
cancer risk will be higher than it would be if they have a baby. That's
settled science," she explained.
An October
study published in the International Journal of Cancer confirms previous
research showing that carrying a pregnancy to term reduces a woman's risk.
"It is
well established that pregnancies that end in a full-term birth ultimately
confer a protective effect on breast cancer risk," Dr. Gillian K. Reeves,
of the University of Oxford, wrote in the IJC research article.
Also,
researchers at the
German Cancer Research Center found a woman's risk of contracting
breast cancer is lowered and the decrease is more substantial the more
pregnancies a woman has had.
Related
web sites:
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer -
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com |
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New
Study: Pregnancies Lower The Risk of Breast Cancer; Abortions Hurt
by
Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
May 30, 2006
 Heidelberg,
Germany (LifeNews.com) --
A new study
by international researchers finds that a woman's risk of contracting
breast cancer is lowered and the decrease is more substantial the more
pregnancies a woman has had. As a result, women who have abortions could
be losing missing an opportunity to lower their chance of contracting the
disease.
Women with
mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes have an increased breast cancer
risk. In the general population, factors such as multiple pregnancies,
first pregnancy at a young age and breastfeeding have a protective effect
by helping to reduce breast cancer risk.
But,
researchers didn't know if those actions had a beneficial effect for women
carrying the mutated genes. In order to answer the question researchers in
several nations initiated a study called the International BRCA1/2 Carrier
Cohort Study (IBCCS).
Scientists
at the German Cancer Research Center studied women with inherited
mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes. They found that a woman's risk to
develop breast cancer after age 40 is the lower, the more pregnancies she
has had.
All of the
women participating in the IBCCS study had the mutated genes and 853 of
them had breast cancer.
Professor
Jenny Chang-Claude of the German center, French scientist Dr. Nadine
Andrieu and other colleagues used the data of 1600 study participants to
investigate whether and how pregnancy affects women with the mutated
genes.
The found
that women with the genes having just one child had the same breast cancer
risk as women who had no children.
However,
among mothers with several children, the risk of contracting breast cancer
after 40 was lowered 14 percent with every child she had.
The
positive effect may be accounted for by the fact that the milk forming
cells in the glandular tissue of the breast only mature completely during
a pregnancy, the researchers said. Scientists suppose that the cells'
tendency to transform decreases with increasing maturation degree.
They also
found that women with the BRCA2 mutation had double the risk of
contracting breast cancer if they gave birth after 20 than those who gave
birth before 20. The data suggests teenagers who are considering an
abortion should be advised to carry the pregnancy to term.
Carries of the BRCA1 mutations were found to have a
lower breast cancer risk when having a child after the age of 30,
suggesting that older women should also be advised not to have an
abortion. |
by
Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
April 4, 2006
 Washington,
DC (LifeNews.com) -- Another medical organization has gone on record
as acknowledging that a link exists between induced abortion and breast
cancer. The Philippine Foundation for Breast Care wrote a letter to the
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, a woman's group that monitors
information about the link, saying that it exists.
Cristina Santos, MD, president of PFBCI, wrote that the board of
directors and members of her group recognize that the link exists.
"[W]e
acknowledge the abortion and breast cancer link based on the physiologic
changes in the breast lobules of a woman who chose to deliberately
interrupt her pregnancy (induced abortion) and the risk for breast
cancer this will pose to that woman," Dr. Santos wrote.
Though abortion is technically illegal in the Philippines, Santos said
there are an estimated 500-800,000 abortions annually. That has resulted
in an increase in breast cancer rates for Filipino women.
"Alarming to note that in 2004, the Philippines has the highest
incidence of breast cancer in Asia," Santos wrote. "Indeed, women should
be made aware of the abortion-breast cancer link."
Karen Malec, president of the Coalition, said, "We are thankful for the
courage shown by Dr. Santos, her board of trustees and members of PFBCI
in acknowledging the link."
Malec explained that during the first two trimesters of pregnancy, the
hormone, estrogen -- a recognized carcinogen -- increases dramatically
and stimulates cancer-vulnerable Types 1 and 2 breast lobules to
multiply, thereby causing breast growth.
At
32 weeks gestation, another process -- "differentiation" -- protects
women from estrogen. It shuts off the ability of the cells in Types 1
and 2 lobules to multiply and matures the lobules into cancer-resistant
Types 3 and 4 lobules.
Seven other medical groups acknowledge that abortion leaves women with
more cancer-vulnerable lobules and another, the Association of American
Physicians and Surgeons, has said the abortion-breast cancer link is
"highly plausible."
Related web sites:
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer -
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com.
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From the
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer |
Women have
the right to know that there are now 27 out of 34 worldwide studies
(from among those 13 out of 14 were American studies) which show a link
between induced abortion and breast cancer, seventeen of which are
statistically significant, and most of which have been done by abortion
supporters. The first study was published in an English publication in
1957 and focused on Japanese women. It showed a 2.6 or 160% increased
risk of breast cancer among women who had had an induced abortion. [Segi
et al. (1957) GANN 48 (Suppl.):1-63]
Abortion is an "elective surgical procedure and a woman’s
exposure to the hormones of early pregnancy -- if it is interrupted --
is so great, that just one interrupted pregnancy is enough to make a
significant difference in her risk" (Professor Joel Brind,
President, Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, Endeavour Forum Public
Meeting, August 24, 1999, Malvern, Victoria, Australia).
The American Cancer Society has stated in its fact sheet
that abortion "may be associated with increased breast cancer
risk" {American Cancer Society, Cancer Facts & Figures --1996,
at 12 (1996)}. (An employee of the
American Cancer Society with the Office of Corporation Counsel has asked
us to remove the Society's 1996 statement from our web site. We have
contacted the Society and asked them to inform us of the legal basis for
their request, if any.)
Dr. Janet Daling, an abortion supporter, and her colleagues at
the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center were commissioned by the
National Cancer Institute to do a study on the abortion-breast cancer
link. The study found that, "among women who had been pregnant at
least once, the risk of breast cancer in those who had experienced an
induced abortion was 50% higher than among other women." It was
also reported that women under the age of 18 or over the age of 29 who
obtained induced abortions had more than a twofold increase in risk.
Women with a family history of breast cancer who procured an abortion
were reported to have statistically significant risk increases of
80 percent. Teenagers under age 18 with a family history breast
cancer who procured abortions had an incalculably high risk increase.
Because American women already face a lifetime risk of developing
breast cancer of about 12 percent, the increased risk from a single
induced abortion is comparable to the risk of lung cancer from long-term
heavy smoking. However, not all women who have had abortions will get
breast cancer, and not all women who have breast cancer have had
abortions.
There is one more way in which abortion
increases the risk of breast cancer. Medical experts universally agree
that it is healthier for a married woman not to postpone her first
full-term pregnancy. One Harvard study reported that each year that a
woman postpones her first full-term pregnancy increases her breast
cancer risk by 3.5%. [Dr. Brian MacMahon, Dr. Dimitrios Trichopoulos, et
al., “Age at any Birth and Breast Cancer Risk,” International
Journal of Cancer, 1983;31:701704]. An abortion causes a woman to forego
the benefit of increased protection from breast cancer resulting from an
earlier first full-term pregnancy. World Health Organization scientists
in 1970 confirmed this saying that, "It is estimated that
women having their first child when aged under 18 years have only about
one-third the breast cancer risk of those whose first birth is delayed
until the age of 35 years or more." (MacMahon B, et al. Bull Wld
Health Org, 1970; 43-209-21). |
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Washington,
DC (LifeNews.com) --
The number of
women who have contracted breast cancer and are dying from the disease is
on the rise and a women's group is blaming abortion for causing the
problem.
Leading
breast cancer awareness groups say they expect 5,170 more breast cancer
cases and 560 more deaths than last year. In 2006, there are 274,900
expected cases of breast cancer and just under 41,000 women are expected
to die from the disease this year.
One reason
the numbers keep increasing is that such groups are failing to inform
women that avoiding abortions and carrying a pregnancy to term can help
reduce the risk of contracting the disease.
Karen
Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, blamed the
government's National Cancer Institute (NCI) and breast cancer awareness
groups for lying about the abortion-breast cancer link.
Harvard
researchers showed two decades ago that increased childbearing, starting
at an earlier age, decreases risk, Malec explained. Meanwhile research
shows that having an abortion, especially as a teenager or before a woman
carries her first pregnancy to term, increases the breast cancer risk.
"Women
want to prevent cancer more than they want a cure," Malec said,
encouraging the groups to focus more on the abortion connection.
"The NCI
and cancer fundraising businesses (some of whose leaders once worked for
Planned Parenthood or other abortion clinics) are more interested in
protecting the abortion industry's interests than saving women's lives,"
she added.
Six
medical groups recognize the abortion-breast cancer link, including the
Breast Cancer Prevention Institute.
"The
longer a woman is pregnant before an induced abortion, the higher her risk
of breast cancer," the BCPI notes in a recent publication for women. "This
risk is especially high for teenagers who have an abortion in the late 1st
or 2nd trimester and for those women who have never have a child."
According
to the institute, "Only 5-10% of all breast cancer cases are felt to be
truly genetic and caused by a breast cancer gene" meaning other causes,
like abortion, are responsible for the rest.
Related web
sites:
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer -
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com
Breast Cancer Prevention Institute -
http://www.bcpinstitute.org
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Doctor Says Education Needed on Abortion-Breast Cancer Link
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St. Louis, MO -- A physician who specializes in breast
health asked a
gathering of pro-life advocates Sunday to join a grass-roots movement to
educate about the link between breast cancer and abortion.
Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, a New York-based physician, made her comments at
the 25th annual Archdiocesan Pro-Life Convention on Sunday at the
Millennium Hotel downtown.
The need for a grass-roots effort involving laypersons, she explained, is
due to a reluctance by academicians to disseminate information on the
subject, whether that's because they refuse to believe there is a link or
they "don't want to be involved in this topic."
Lanfranchi said there is evidence showing that women who have abortions,
especially in their younger years, have a greater risk of developing
breast cancer. Meanwhile, she said, carrying a pregnancy to full term
lowers breast cancer risk. The purported link involves estrogen levels
that occur naturally during pregnancy and the effect that abortion has on
those levels.
Though abortion doesn't present an overwhelming risk, she acknowledged,
"abortion is a completely avoidable risk factor."
Lanfranchi said 13 out of 15 U.S. studies show an increased risk of
developing breast cancer in women who have had abortions. But pro-abortion
activists claim any such link is bogus.
An area official of Planned Parenthood claims that at least two dozen
studies have examined such a link and determined there was none. The
National Cancer Institute and high-profile medical societies similarly
have dismissed any link, though such dismissals have been blamed on
politics, not science.
Lanfranchi stands by her belief.
In 1999, she confronted a doctor who did not mention abortion during a
talk on breast cancer risks. "What she said to me on the phone is, 'Look,
abortion is a risk factor, it's not really a big one ... but I don't
choose to talk about it,'" Lanfranchi recalled.
Such reactions prompted Lanfranchi to establish the Breast Cancer
Prevention Institute in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., about three years ago. Through
the organization, she has been able to study whether there is a link and
get the word out on her findings and those of others.
She said the information should not be used as a "club" to batter women
who have had abortions but rather, as a tool to help them avoid a risk.
"It's a woman's right to know," said Lanfranchi, who advised her audience
members to pray about the subject. "It's only right that a woman be
informed of this risk."
--
From: The Pro-Life Infonet <infonet@prolifeinfo.org>
Reply-To: Steven Ertelt <infonet@prolifeinfo.org>
Subject: Doctor Says Education Needed on Abortion-Breast Cancer Link
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch; October 21, 2001 |
British Scientists: Abortion Doubles Breast Cancer Risk
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From: The Pro-Life Infonet <infonet@prolifeinfo.org>
Reply-To: Steven Ertelt <infonet@prolifeinfo.org>
Subject: British Scientists: Abortion Doubles Breast Cancer Risk
Source: The Age (England); December 4, 2001
London, England -- Women who have had an abortion are up to twice as
likely to suffer from breast cancer, British scientists said today.
In the first study of its kind in Britain, researchers said the risk of
breast cancer is significantly increased if a woman has undergone an
abortion.
The study, which looked at breast cancer and abortion rates in Britain,
Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic, draws a direct link between rising
cases of breast cancer and an increase in abortion since it was legalized.
The research, by the Populations and Pensions Research Institution, an
independent group of statisticians, suggests that up to 50 percent of
breast cancer cases in England and Wales over the next 26 years will be
"attributable to abortion".
Launching the study, which was funded by the pro-life organiation Life,
Professor Joel Brind of New York's City University and director of the
Breast Cancer Prevention Institute in New York, pointed out it was
intellectually watertight.
He said: "Women are at risk and they do not really know about it. They
certainly don't seem to be finding out about it from the NHS."
"This implicates a risk factor that is a matter of choice," Brind
explained. "Simply undergoing [an abortion] once measurably increases the
risk of breast cancer. We are talking about thousands of cases of breast
cancer over the next twenty years. This is a very sobering statistic."
Researcher and author Patrick Carroll said the total number of breast
cancer cases is expected to more than double in England from 35,110 in
1997 to 77,000 in 2023. The rise was largely because of abortions carried
out on women who have not yet had a baby, Carroll said.
"Breast cancer incidence has risen ... in parallel with rising abortion
rates. There is no doubt there is a causal relationship," he said.
"Perhaps as many as 50 percent of these cases will be attributable to
abortion and unless there is a major improvement in treatment, the number
of women who die from the disease will rise alarmingly."
Professor Brind said a surge in levels of the hormone estrogen in the
first three months of pregnancy by around 2000 percent is the most likely
mechanism for increasing risk in women who subsequently undergo an
abortion.
Life pointed to the research findings to assert that abortion is
psychologically and physically dangerous.
Professor Jack Scarisbrick, chairman of Life, said: "We accuse the
government and the medical establishment of persistent refusal to take
seriously the mounting evidence that abortion is a significantly
independent risk factor for breast cancer."
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World's First Abortion-Breast Cancer Settlement
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| A landmark case involving the world’s
first known settlement of an abortion-breast cancer lawsuit was heralded
by Australian attorney Charles Francis. Mr. Francis revealed that the
plaintiff in the case had sued because her physician hadn’t told her that
researchers had associated abortion with breast cancer. A confidentiality
clause in the agreement prohibits the identification of the plaintiff. Mr.
Francis revealed that Australian legal precedent had required doctors to
inform their patients of any material risks of a recommended surgical
procedure because patients have a right to decide whether or not to assume
the risks of the medical treatment. He had this to say about the
abortion-breast cancer settlement and other personal injury cases
involving abortion providers: "In Australia the case of Rogers v. Whitaker
in the High Court decided that before any operation a doctor has a duty to
warn the patient of any material risks. Abortionists give the women
concerned little or no information about the many risks of an abortion.
"In 1996 two Australian women commenced legal actions because their
abortionists gave them no warning that there might be adverse psychiatric
consequences. Both these cases, ‘Ellen's’ case in Victoria and ‘Cynthia's’
case in New South Wales, were eventually settled for undisclosed amounts.
"Since 1998 cases have been commenced which have also claimed the
additional failure to warn of an increased risk of breast cancer caused by
abortion. Recently one of those cases has been settled for an undisclosed
amount. This is believed to be the first case of its kind in the world. A
confidentiality clause which was part of the settlement prevents further
discussion. "In another case to be heard in New South Wales shortly,
‘Mary’ (not her real name) is suing a hospital and an abortionist for
failure to warn her that she might subsequently have a bad psychiatric
reaction and for failure to warn of the increased breast cancer risk. You
are asked to pray for ‘Mary.’" Mr. Francis’ wife, Babette, is the National
and Overseas Coordinator for Endeavour Forum, a conservative women’s group
affiliated with the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, an international
women’s group located outside of Chicago. Karen Malec, president of the
coalition, said "We’re delighted with the settlement of an abortion-breast
cancer case. The abortion industry and its medical experts know that it
will be far more challenging for them to lie to women about the
abortion-breast cancer research when they are called upon to testify under
oath. Scientists know that abortion causes breast cancer, but are afraid
to say so publicly in today’s hostile political climate." Mrs. Malec
added, "Women and their families are the real victims of this scientific
misconduct. Tragically, abortion data from the only Australian
abortion-breast cancer study were concealed from Australian women for 7
years. Scientists could have spared women a great deal of suffering if
they’d only set aside their abortion ideology and published their abortion
data." The lone Australian study exploring the link between abortion and
breast cancer was conducted by Rohan et al and found a 160% elevated risk
among women who’d procured abortions. Abortion was not only the study’s
most significant risk factor, but also its only statistically significant
risk factor. In spite of everything, the abortion data were never
published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. [Rohan, et al, American
Journal of Epidemiology (1988) Vol. 128, pp. 478-489] Rohan’s abortion
data were only revealed to the world with the publication of a
meta-analysis of six studies by French researchers, Nadine Andrieu et al,
in the British Journal of Cancer in 1995. [Vol. 72, pp. 744-751] "This
isn’t the first time that data has been withheld from women," said Mrs.
Malec. "Data have been concealed in studies conducted on Taiwanese,
Chinese and Asian American women too." [Lai et al (1996) Proc Natl Sci
Council, ROC 20:71-7; Bu et al (1995) Am J Epidemiol 141:S85; and Wu et al
(1996) Br J Cancer 73:680-6] Editors at the American Journal of
Epidemiology which published the 1988 Australian study by Rohan and the
1995 Chinese study by Bu have repeatedly exhibited a deep aversion to data
implicating abortion. In 1994 the journal’s associate editor, Lynn
Rosenberg, Ph.D. of Boston Medical School, threw rocks at the only study
specifically commissioned by the National Cancer Institute whose authors,
Janet Daling, et al, found a 50% elevated risk among American women who’d
had abortions. Rosenberg editorialized that she couldn’t imagine how
Daling’s findings could be of use to women. [Daling et al, 1994) J Natl
Cancer Inst 86:1584-92] Mrs. Malec asserted that "The notorious Lindefors-Harris
study was also published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Its
authors were later accused of having covered up an abortion-breast cancer
link among Norwegian women." [Lindefors-Harris et al (1991) 134:1003-8;
and Brind et al, J Epidemiol Community Health, 1998, 52:209-11] The
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women’s
organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by
educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for
breast cancer. |
First U.S. abortion-breast cancer lawsuit settled
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Contact: Karen Malec of the Coalition
on Abortion/Breast Cancer, 877-803-0102; response@abortionbreastcancer.com;
http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Coalition on Abortion/Breast
Cancer announced today that the first U.S. abortion-breast cancer (ABC)
lawsuit settled for an undisclosed amount on October 17, 2003. The case
was filed in Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. The plaintiff was
a 17-year-old Pennsylvania resident when a second-trimester abortion was
performed in New Jersey without parental knowledge or consent. Although
she hasn't developed breast cancer, she sued her abortion provider,
Charles Benjamin, for neglecting to warn her about the physical and
emotional risks of abortion.
Karen Malec, the coalition's president, declared, "This settlement will
teach the medical establishment that it can no longer profit by keeping
women in the dark about the breast cancer risk. This case also establishes
that abortion providers can be sued for battery if the abortion provider
performs no parental consent abortions on minors from neighboring states
(with parental consent statutes), even if the state where the abortion is
performed does not have a parental consent statute."
The plaintiff's attorney, Joseph P. Stanton, will hold a press conference
on a later date. For further details, contact his office at: 405 Old York
Road, Jenkintown, Pa.; phone 215-886-6780.
The ABC link has been called "the elephant in medicine's parlor." Medical
experts privately say abortion causes breast cancer, but the volatility of
the issue prevents them from publicly acknowledging it.
According to a National Cancer Institute (NCI) commissioned study, teens
who procure abortions before age 18, more than double their risk. (see
note 1) Girls and women have a predominance of immature, cancer-vulnerable
Types 1 & 2 breast lobules, which aren't matured into cancer-resistant
Types 3 & 4 lobules until a term pregnancy takes place. Abortion can
increase the statistical odds of developing breast cancer in two ways: 1)
It delays a first term pregnancy; and 2) It increases the number of
cancer-vulnerable breast cells because estrogen overexposure during a
normal pregnancy stimulates cell multiplication. Women don't receive
protection from estrogen overexposure until third trimester hormones
mature their breast tissue into milk-producing Types 3 & 4 lobules.
Scientists have proven themselves incapable of refuting the biological
explanation for the ABC link. Thirteen out of 16 U.S. studies report risk
elevations. The NCI provided at least partial funding for 10 studies.
Minnesota and Texas state legislators passed informed consent legislation
earlier this year. Massachusetts is considering similar legislation. Five
medical organizations say abortion is one of the causes of breast cancer.
(see note 2)
The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women's
organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by
educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for
breast cancer.
References (Available at http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com):
(1) Daling et al. (1994) J National Cancer Institute 86:1584-92.
(2) National Physicians Center for Family Resources, Catholic Medical
Association, American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and
Gynecologists, Polycarp Research Institute, Breast Cancer Prevention
Institute.
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