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To follow up... Breast Cancer The single most avoidable risk factor for breast cancer is elective abortion. This was the conclusion reached by Joel Brind, Ph.D., the first convention speaker. Dr. Brind is the foremost authority on the link between induced abortion and an increased incidence of breast cancer. He presented slides of some 31 studies published worldwide, from 1967 to 2000. The study found that women who had at least one abortion were, on the average, 50% more likely to develop breast cancer later in life. “Any legitimate branch of medicine, confronted with this information,” said Dr. Brind, “would stop the procedure and take a look.” But not the abortion industry, he added. In fact, Dr. Brind’s slides showed that our most prestigious medical journals are, at best, glossing over this body of scientific information with an “inconclusive” veneer. At worst, they are deliberately concealing the information from the American public. In Great Britain they are more open to receiving scientific evidence on this subject. Thus Dr. Brind’s Comprehensive Review and Meta-analysis was published there in 1996. In the United States, however, “political correctness” demands that the public not be informed. Dr. Ronald J. Carroll, recently retired but long-time president of Maine Center for Cancer Medicine Blood Disorders and also present at the convention, explained why abortion increases the risk for breast cancer. It has long been known, he said, that several human reproductive factors play a role in the biology of breast cancer. Specifically, the number of full-term pregnancies a woman experiences, as well as her age at first pregnancy (the younger, the better), exerts a protective effect against breast cancer. According to Dr. Brind’s presentation, the mother’s ovaries, beginning a few days after conception, start producing large amounts of estrogen. This stimulates the dormant [resting] gland cells in the mother’s breast to multiply. Such cells remain undifferentiated, i.e. not fully mature, until late in pregnancy, at which time a different hormone matures them into milk-producing cells. Induced abortion ends a pregnancy too soon. The estrogen-stimulated, undifferentiated cells are never exposed to the maturation process of late pregnancy and therefore can later turn into breast cancer cells. That breast cancers take many years to evolve is a well-established fact. The data presented by Dr. Brind (from 31 studies) strongly supports a causal relationship between abortion and breast cancer. Particularly striking was the increase in women who have had an abortion and who also have a family history of breast cancer. Such synergisms are well known with other risk factors in breast cancer and support the hypothesis. The relationship between abortion and the increased risk of breast cancer has not been well publicized. After citing a clearly flawed study with an accompanying favorable editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine, which showed “no relationship” between abortion and breast cancer, Dr. Brind left the attendees of the convention wondering about the objectivity of the editors who produce the medical literature. -- Maine Right to Life [LINK]http://www.mainerighttolife.com[/LINK]