New Study Shows Abortion is 'Best Predictor of Breast Cancer'

LifeSiteNews ^ | 10/3/07 | LifeSiteNews

[wagglebee]

WASHINGTON, DC, October 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons published a study yesterday entitled, "The Breast Cancer Epidemic." It showed that, among seven risk factors, abortion is the "best predictor of breast cancer," and fertility is also a useful predictor. 

The study by Patrick Carroll of PAPRI in London showed that countries with higher abortion rates, such as England & Wales, could expect a substantial increase in breast cancer incidence. Where abortion rates are low (i.e., Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic) a smaller increase is expected. Where a decline in abortion has taken place, (i.e., Denmark and Finland) a decline in breast cancer is anticipated.

Carroll used the same mathematical model for a previous forecast of numbers of breast cancers in future years for England & Wales based on cancer data up to 1997 that has proved quite accurate for predicting cancers observed in years 1998 to 2004.

In four countries - England & Wales, Scotland, Finland and Denmark - a social gradient has been discovered (unlike that for other cancers) whereby upper class and upwardly mobile women have more breast cancer than lower class women. This was studied in Finland and Denmark and the influence of known risk factors other than abortion was examined, but the gradient was not explained.

Carroll suggests that the known preference for abortion in this class might explain the phenomenon. Women pursuing higher educations and professional careers often delay marriage and childbearing. Abortions before the birth of a first child are highly carcinogenic.

Carroll used national data from nations believed to have "nearly complete abortion counts." Therefore, his study is not affected by recall bias.

Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer commented on the latest findings stating: "It's time for scientists to admit publicly what they already acknowledge privately among themselves - that abortion raises breast cancer risk - and to stop conducting flawed research to protect the medical establishment from massive medical practice lawsuits."

See the new study online here:
http://www.jpands.org/vol12no3/carroll.pdf

[wagglebee]

If the number one cause of breast cancer was ANYTHING ELSE, this would be on the front page of every paper in the world, but as it stands it will be buried.

[wagglebee]

Pro-Life Ping

[qam1]

Getting excited about cancer is pretty creepy

[vetsvette]

So much for “health of the woman.”

[Uri’el-2012]

This information has been denied and suppressed by Planned Parenthood for years.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yep!

[Wolverine]

Hillary with a Ouija board...

 

How many abortions = RARE?

How about Hillary with a Ouija board: “does life begin at conception?” or “what would Jesus think of abortion?”

 

...She (Hillary) is very careful to avoid addressing questions like “does life begin at conception?” or “what would Jesus think of abortion?” She shrewdly recognizes that this is a minefield. Unlike pro-choice liberals like John Kerry, she seems smart enough to realize that once you acknowledge the humanity of the unborn child, and particularly from the moment of conception, then it becomes very troublesome to argue for the right to take that life.

 

Re:

God and Hillary Clinton

[Guenevere]

You can hardly doubt the statistics...

...they have 34 years of data and over 50 million aborted babies.

[babygene]

Cool...

[Grut]

Countries don’t get breast cancer, women do. Unless the breast cancer in these countries afflicts women who’ve had abortions disproportionately - a point which the report seems to evade making - the most we have here is evidence of some cultural factor leading to both abortions and breast cancer.

[bjs1779]

Getting excited about cancer is pretty creepy.

Would you like this headline better? Iow, a little less creepy to you?

New Study Shows Abortion is ‘Best Protector of Breast Cancer’

[wagglebee]

Huh?

[TASMANIANRED]

Delayed child bearing was previously known to impact breast cancer risk.

[gondramB]

>>If the number one cause of breast cancer was ANYTHING ELSE, this would be on the front page of every paper in the world, but as it stands it will be buried.<<

I read the report. I don't think they are claiming at this point that abortion is the number one cause of breast cancer but rather that they have a predictive model (high correlation).

What's new here is their predictions. If they are right then in the next 25 years, breast cancer rates in England, Whales and the Czech Republic should increase by over 50% while breast cancer rates actually decline in Finland and Denmark.

This would be a major step in showing proof.

[gondramB]

They give actual numerical targets that can be checked through the coming years.

[Salvation]

Pray for an end to abortion and the conversion of America to a mindset of life!

[bjs1779]

Huh?

The poster accused you of getting "excited" about women getting breast cancer because of abortion. It's an old tactic.

[Amelia]

Correlation does not imply or prove causation.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

Unless the breast cancer in these countries afflicts women who’ve had abortions disproportionately - a point which the report seems to evade making - the most we have here is evidence of some cultural factor leading to both abortions and breast cancer.

The report indeed did not directly examine this question:

http://www.jpands.org/vol12no3/carroll.pdf