ABORTION CONNECTED WITH BREAST CANCER
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Peer-Reviewed Study Shows
Shocking Link Between Induced Abortion and Cancer
"After decades of denial,
the link is now clear. Anti-abortion activists are rightfully highlighting a
new meta-analysis of studies published in the peer-reviewed journal Cancer
Causes and Control. The study concluded that there is a significant association
and increased risk of breast cancer in women as the number of induced abortions
increases. Even a single abortion was found to raise the risk of breast cancer
by a whopping 44 percent.
Abortion is know to carry more
emotional reactions than those who miscarry and the long-term impact may be
stronger for some, but the verifiable link between cancer and abortion has been
denied for decades.
Regardless of your position on
abortion, the science can no longer be ignored. Abortion does in fact increase
a woman's breast cancer risk. In 2010, a team of scientists found that abortion
could triple a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer in later life. While
concluding that breastfeeding offered significant protection from cancer, they
also noted that the highest reported risk factor in developing the disease was
abortion.
The findings, published in the
Journal Cancer Epidemiology was consider ground breaking research to show a
link between abortion and breast cancer. It was carried out by scientists at
the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka and was the fourth epidemiological study
to report such a link in the past within 14 months, with research in China,
Turkey and the U.S. showing similar conclusions.
The new study's conclusion
published on November 24, 2013 comes amid legal battles against Obamcare's
requirement that employers pay for abortifacients and steroid drugs, commonly
known as birth control pills.
The analysis by Yubei Huang,
published in the peer-reviewed journal Cancer Causes and Control, looked at all
36 studies that have been done in China regarding the risk of developing breast
cancer for women who have had at least one induced abortion.
The risk rocketed 44 percent,
Huang found, after one abortion. After two, the risk rose to 76 percent. After
three, it climbed to 89 percent.
Brind said his 1996 study was
attacked by abortion advocates "entrenched in universities, medical
societies, breast cancer charities, journals, and especially, government
agencies like the National Cancer Institute," the NCI.
"In reality, the NCI is just
another corrupt federal agency like the IRS and the NSA," he asserted.
The relationship between induced
and spontaneous abortion and breast cancer risk has been the subject of
extensive research beginning in the late 1950s. Until the mid-1990s, the
evidence was inconsistent. Findings from some studies suggested there was no
increase in risk of breast cancer among women who had had an abortion, while
findings from other studies suggested there was an increased risk.
On the NCI website they
specifically state and contrary to the Chinese study:
"The National Cancer
Institute (NCI) convened a workshop of over 100 of the world's leading experts
who study pregnancy and breast cancer risk. Workshop participants reviewed
existing population-based, clinical, and animal studies on the relationship
between pregnancy and breast cancer risk, including studies of induced and
spontaneous abortions. They concluded that having an abortion or miscarriage
does not increase a woman's subsequent risk of developing breast cancer."
Professor Joel Brind, a science
advisor for the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer who reached a similar
conclusion to Huang's in 1996, called the finding a "real
game-changer" in the controversy over the link between abortion and breast
cancer.
"Not only does it validate
the earlier findings from 1996, but its findings are even stronger," he
said.
First, it documents a 44 percent
breast cancer risk increase with a single abortion.
It also confirms the "dose
effect," that more abortions results in a higher risk, he said.
"Risk factors that show such
a dose effect have more credibility in terms of actually causing the
disease," he noted.
And he noted studies from India
and Bangladesh earlier this year "reported breast cancer risk increases of
unprecedented magnitude: over 600 percent and over 2,000 percent, respectively,
among women who had any induced abortions."
Americans must pay attention, he
said, because of the pending U.S. Supreme Court cases over Obamacare's required
coverage of abortion and contraceptives.
He noted the Coalition on
Abortion/Breast Cancer and the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute have filed
briefs in the cases.
Ignored Risks
Yet, despite convincing evidence
of the dangers of breast cancer from abortions and contraceptive use, the
lucrative abortion industry continues to deny any link exists. Attacking the
credibility of studies conducted by Brind and others, the abortion lobby claims
there is no consensus in the scientific community on the subject, and so its
patients are told they are not at risk.
"The Planned Parenthood
position is that abortion poses no demonstrated health risks," says Nancy
L. Sasaki, president of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles. "The link between
induced abortion and breast cancer is a theory whose principal promoters oppose
abortion regardless of its safety. The theory has not been borne out by
research. While Planned Parenthood believes that women should have access to
information about all factors that influence the risk of disease, PPLA also
believes that women deserve information that is medically substantiated and
untainted by a political agenda. Because the research community has not reached
a consensus on breast cancer and abortion, Planned Parenthood advises women who
are considering terminating a pregnancy that there is no currently demonstrated
health risk from abortion that would warrant basing a decision on that factor
alone."
Dr. Jane Orient, a spokeswoman
for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, stated that it is
outrageous that American health care providers are not more aggressive and
deliberate in warning women of the risk of a fatal cancer if they choose to
abort.
"Women do want to
know," she said. "The abortion interests do not want them to know
this. The medical establishment has been behind the effort to conceal it [the
link]."
Reggie Littlejohn, whose
organization Womens Rights Without Frontiers focuses on China's forced-abortion
policy, said the warning to women around the world is clear.
"Obviously this does not
simply apply to Chinese women, but to all women. When we're talking about
informed consent in the U.S., women need to be informed of the very strong link
between abortion and breast cancer," she said.
She said the documentation turns
the Chinese policy of one-child limits and forced abortion into secondary
women's rights violations. The first violation is when hundreds of thousands of
unborn girls are aborted each year in a society that stands on the primacy of
males. The second is when an aborted baby girl's mother faces the much higher
risk of breast cancer.
Her organization noted the
Chinese work was done by a team of epidemiologists from Tianjin Medical
University Cancer Hospital.
The study found induced abortion
"significantly associated with an increased risk of breast cancer among
Chinese females, and the risk of breast cancer increases as the number of IA
increases."
Breast Cancer Increasing At An
Alarming Rate
Historically, China had had a low
breast cancer rate compared to Western nations, but over the last two decades
the rate has "increased at an alarming rate," the study said.
The increase was parallel to
China's one-child policy, which includes forced abortions, the report said.
"This groundbreaking study
reveals yet another human rights violation in connection with China's one-child
policy: Forcibly aborted women are also at significantly higher risk of breast
cancer," Littlejohn said.
"Not only do the women of
China have to endure the tremendous trauma of late-term forced abortion, taking
their babies from them; but also, years later, breast cancer, taking their
health and even their lives from them," she said.
Littlejohn said the strong
association of abortion and breast cancer established by the new study
"brings the women's rights violations under the one child policy to a new
level: a woman pregnant in China without a birth permit is subjected to both
government-imposed forced abortion, and also breast cancer as a result of
it."
"Where abortion is forced,
the subsequent development of breast cancer becomes a violation of women's
rights in itself," she said.
The study looked at 36 articles
(two cohort studies and 34 case-control studies) covering 14 provinces in
China.
Just months ago, the prestigious
Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, published a study showing
the rate of metastatic breast cancer in women ages 25 to 39 nearly doubled
between 1976 and 2009, from 1.53 to 2.9 per 100,000.
The American Council on Science
and Health calls the increase "slight." But at the time, Orient
pointed out there has been no corresponding increase in older women.
Karen Malec, president of the
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, said it was "utterly stunning"
that lead author Rebecca Johnson's team called the increased incidence in
advanced cancers among young women "small."
"That's a nearly doubled
increase in the incidence of a disease with a mean five-year fatality rate of
69 percent," she said. "By contrast, the mean five-year fatality rate
among women with breast cancers that have not spread to distant sites is 13.2
percent."
And what distinguishes the younger
women from the older? The sexual revolution, said Orient.
"Young women in huge numbers
have taken higher doses of hormones than their menopausal sisters -- in
birth-control pills," she said.
It was in 2005 when the World
Health Organization classified oral contraceptives as Class-1 carcinogens, one
of only about 100 substances found to be "carcinogenic in humans."
Orient said breast cancer is
generally hormone sensitive and is often treated with anti-estrogens. Pregnancy
is the most important cause of a high estrogen level.
She noted estrogen increases by
2,000 percent by the end of the first trimester, increasing cancer
vulnerability. However, by the end of pregnancy, 85 percent of breast-cancer
tissue has become cancer-resistant because of hormones made by the
fetal-placenta presence.
That means a completed pregnancy
protects against breast cancer. The protection is lost when a pregnancy is
aborted, making a woman even more vulnerable to breast cancer."
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