The major problem, as I see it, with the "wishful thinking" category is that it seems to have overtaken much of the debate on a wide variety of "causes" of a wide variety of diseases.
Links between one thing and another exist for everything. In this particular case the claim is that abortion is the number one preventable cause of breast cancer...........yet others claim that smoking is the number one preventable cause of breast cancer..still others claim the number one is something else.
I'm not claiming to know if one is right, or if any of them are wrong - I'm just commenting that depending upon which study, which disease, which funding, etc., there are going to be different spins taken on the outcome of the studies.
I was making the point that this kind of emotion-based, scientifically ignorant misinformation is harmful, prejudicial and just flat wrong. When we look at the results of studies, we need to be very careful. You can say "current studies show that there may be a link between...and...", or "studies indicate a trend", but you can't say that something is the "number one preventable cause of breast cancer".
And, I am healthy now thanks to the miracles of modern medicine, thank you.