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The JAPS is a publication of the right wing ideology-based Ass'n of American Physicians and Surgeons, so I wouldn't give much credence to anything they publish that relates to their ideology, without some strong corroboration from an unbiased or opposing party (and I would also apply that principle to positions of theirs that I agree with, such as the need to vigorously fight the socialization of medicine). The AAPS is explicitly anti-abortion, and anti- any post-fertilization contraceptive method. I might as well be reading "research" by the Brady Bunch on "gun violence". I don't know anything about the other two journals. But I'd suggest going to these cited articles yourself, if you're really interested, and seeing what they really say. Joel Brind has made his joke of a career out of "citing" other people's research, and claiming that it shows things that it doesn't show, and that its authors have repeatedly said it doesn't show. And I suspect the author of this article is largely following the same path.

There may be a thousand articles out there showing a small correlation between abortion and breast cancer, but the fact is that exhaustive reviews of the literature by serious unbiased researchers have not found a single solid piece of research that shows a causative effect of abortion on breast cancer. And for the reasons I cited, the assertion that the increase in breast cancer during the time period since abortion became legal indicates that abortion is the cause, is an absolute joke.