Abortion- Breast Cancer Link Debate Resumed : Turtle Bay and ...

Posted on | April 4, 2012 by Lucia Muchova |

The recent?introduction of bills in New Hampshire, Kansas and New Jersey legislatures requiring physicians to warn women seeking abortion about the abortion-related risk of breast cancer (ABC link) has regenerated the stream of dishonest and misinformed denials that such a link exists.

The bills? provisions to ensure that women are informed about the increased risk of breast cancer associated with abortion have been attacked in the media. One of the most aggressive ones was published by Eric Zorn in the Chicago Tribune, referring to the ?Women?s Right to Know Act? as the ?Activists? Right to Lie to Women Act? and asserting that the ABC link is ?false, according to virtually every authoritative medical body.?

Dr Joel Brind has seized the opportunity to turn these denials into a scientific debate based on facts rather than politics. His first article (out of three) has just appeared on the National Right to Life news website, documenting the history of epidemiological data showing a statistically significant correlation between induced abortion and incidence of breast cancer in countries as diverse as Japan, China, Turkey, US, Armenia, etc. The second and third articles will appear shortly.

In March this year, a comprehensive analysis of available scientific research on the ABC link has been published by Dr Angela Lanfranchi from the World Expert Consortium for Abortion Research and Education (WECARE). This analysis provides an extremely detailed account of how advances in human biology and epidemiologic research lead to the conclusion that induced abortion is associated with an independent increased risk of breast cancer:

Given the present state of knowledge of breast physiology and reproductive risks described in standard medical texts, it is indisputable that induced abortions cause an increase in breast cancer incidence.

It is well known that different pregnancy outcomes lead to changes in the rates of breast cancer among women:

Once pregnant, if a woman chooses to maintain her pregnancy and achieves a full term pregnancy, she will lower her risk of breast cancer. This is well known and undisputed in medical circles.

If she chooses to have an induced abortion she may remain childless, a condition which increases her risk of breast cancer.

Or if she chooses abortion and then has another pregnancy, the abortion will have
delayed this pregnancy which also increases her risk of breast cancer.

If she already had a full term pregnancy and chooses to abort a subsequent pregnancy she loses the risk reduction that an additional full term pregnancy would have afforded her.

The use of instruments such as dilators during an abortion increases the risk of having a premature delivery in future births. If that premature delivery is before 32 weeks, she will have an increased risk of breast cancer.

Read more: The Abortion and Breast Cancer Link: Advances in Human Biology and Continued Epidemiologic Studies Increasingly Point to a Link

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