I am not pro-abortion, but I do believe in science. For example, if you are going to use science to show the early development of fetuses as a reason not to abort, IMO, you can't pick and choose.
I say this for two reasons: fudge facts to suit your case & your case is lost. If you (the generic you, of course) weren't telling the truth about abortion being a direct link to cancer, were you telling the truth when you said a fetus is an individual? If people can throw away part of your argument, they will throw it all away and your point will be lost.
And two, I think it is morally wrong to present a side you know to be wrong. Correlation does not imply causation. Unless you can say that 1000 women had abortions and more of them had cancer than 1000 women who didn't (plus a control group) there is no proof. That study does not exist. This study does not prove that abortion causes cancer.
It is the truth & not shortcuts around it that will set us free.
Science teaches that the first time a girl/woman is pregnant and her breasts are not developed, they start developing. If the pregnancy is terminated part way through this process, a hormone is deprived of the breasts and the development of the girl's/woman's breast stop UNNATURALLY.This is the link found to breast cancer.
Now I am giving you the shorthand explanation.
If you want the detailed explanation:
One of the people that worked on this is Dr. Angela Franchioni (spelling?). She was a Breast Cancer Surgeon who started seeing an alarming rate of younger women (in their 20s) coming down with Breast Cancer.
She did not believe in the Abortion-Breast Cancer link until she forced her patients to start writing down information about their pregnancies... The results she came up with surprising -- to make her dedicate her time to the Abortion - Breast Cancer link...
Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, MD FACS, Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center in Piscataway, New Jersey.
As a breast cancer surgeon, she became alarmed at what was happening, and she did her own analysis that led her to the conclusion that there was a significant link between abortion and breast cancer.
I believe she found that the least risk of breast cancer occurred with girls who got pregnant at an early age and had the baby.
She found a significant increase in breast cancer in girls about the same age (very young) who got pregnant, but aborted.
The science behind this is that having a baby at an early age develops the breasts.
Abortion, on the other hand, starts the development of the breasts, and then unnaturally halts that development with the abrupt termination of the pregnancy.
Are you that lost? Why do you (generic of you, of course) grope at reasons to commit murder of the unborn?