[Mamzelle]

Agreed--this line of reasoning muddies many waters, and chiefly serves to raise alarm in women who are childless, who had children late in life, or even had a *natural* miscarriage.

Does this weaken or strengthen the pro-life position...?

[HairOfTheDog]

It only makes my heart and mind wonder why they are reaching for some abstract reason to not have an abortion, when the baby is obviously the single most important issue, for both the woman, and the pro-lifer.

Every woman over 40 in my family got breast cancer and I most likely will too. All lived through it, though a few got other cancers later. For people to isolate one cause in a vacuum and not pretend that there are a multitude reasons people get breast cancer, and a myriad of other priorities, fears and decisions going on in the mind of a person considering abortion; realities that are much more 'here and now' than some future risk of breast cancer. It doesn't even register on the radar.