LINKS TO BREAST CANCER

ABORTION INCREASES THE RISK OF DEVELOPING BREAST CANCER

How: Abortion interrupts the natural process of breast development, leaving the breast with more cells that can become cancerous. Elevated levels of estrogen, starting early in pregnancy, cause normal and pre-cancerous cells to multiply and stimulate the breasts to swell. Third trimester hormones of a full-term pregnancy change cells into cancer-resistant, milk-producing tissue and turn off their growth (and cancer-forming) potential.

Talking about ABC. Denise Mountenay, Canada Silent No More founder/president (far right), with Ederlinda Austrial, Breast Cancer Society of Manila Inc. (BCSMI) president (2nd from right), and BCSMI members during Feb. 17’s Relay for Life in Quezon City, which gathered hundreds of breast cancer patients and survivors. Mountenay spoke about the ABC or abortion-breast cancer link, citing 28 studies that prove the connection.

Breast cancer has a proven link to abortion, say medical groups and a bioethics journal.

Breast cancer rates climbed more than 40% between 1987 and 1998. Among three age groups, only the youngest generation, ages 50-64, which had access to legalized abortion (the Roe v. Wade generation), experienced the increase, not the two older groups, ages 65 and older. Holly Howe et al., Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1973 through 1998, featuring cancers with recent increasing trends. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2001; 93:824-842, figure 3

“As far as breast cancer is concerned, the risk-reducing effect of full-term pregnancy has been well-known literally for centuries, and is universally acknowledged…It is hardly difficult to connect the dots here: Having an induced abortion leaves a women with a higher long-term risk of breast cancer, compared to not having the abortion; i.e., compared to childbirth…Despite the worst efforts of scientists, doctors, politicians, journalists, and judges to quash public knowledge of the (abortion-breast cancer) link, the fact that published evidence of it abounds would make it a daunting task to convince a jury of its nonexistence, given a well-presented case.” Joel Brind, Ph.D., whose landmark report accused government agencies and biased scientists of publishing fraudulent research to cover-up a half-century of evidence linking abortion with increased breast cancer risk. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (Summer 2005) p. 303-329

“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.” “Highest risks (more than double) were observed when the abortion was done at ages younger than 18 years…or at least 30 years of age or older.” Dr. Janet Daling, lead author of a study specifically commissioned by the National Cancer Institute to investigate the link between abortion and breast cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1994; 86:1584-1592

Source:

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
An international women’s organization
www.AbortionBreastCancer.com
Email: response@abortionbreastcancer.com
P.O. Box 957133, Hoffman Estates, Il 60195-3051 U.S.A.

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is a 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.

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