The Tragic Truth About Breast Cancer and Abortion (Especially before Age 18 and after 30)

CBN News ^ | May 1, 2002 | Gailon Totheroh

[codebreaker]

There is a clear biological connection between abortion and beast cancer.

Here's how it happens:

1. The hormone estrogen causes milk-producing tissue in the breast to grow

2. If this tissue is immature when exposed to large amounts of estrogen, it more readily turns cancerous

3. In pregnancy, there is lots of estrogen, but a full-term pregnancy casues the tissue to mature and resist cancer.

4. An abortion stops the process of maturing the milk producing cells, leaving them vulnerable.

5.That combines with growth producing estrogen-especially from the high levels of pregnancy before the abortion-to promote abnormal cell growth and cancer.

For instance, the female body seems to have larger numbers of immature breast cells before age 18 and after age 30.

And this fits in with breat cancer risk because we know that women who have abortions before age 18 and after age 30 have the highest rates of breast cancer.

[Saundra Duffy]

When are the cases in Australia going to be decided?

Well, since the first one was successful, I suspect the others will follow suit; however, I haven't heard anything yet. Thank Goodness the people who live in Australia are getting the word. Many Australian lives will be saved. Too bad in the USA this life-saving information is gagged by the money-grubbing abortion industry.

[jlogajan]

Too bad in the USA this life-saving information is gagged by the money-grubbing abortion industry.

The American Cancer Society? Your paranoia knows no bounds.

[Felicity]

This certainly doesn’t surprise me, since the source is Christian. I would think that the American Cancer Society would be a better source for unbiased info regarding this. Wouldn’t you?
Here is a link to a page on the American Cancer Society site that clearly explains that there is not any known link to Abortions and Breast Cancer.
http://www.cancer.org/eprise/main/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_6x_Can_Having_an_Abortion_Cause_or_Contribute_to_Breast_Cancer

[Saundra Duffy]

Ha! The American Cancer Society is scared crapless about having to admit they've been wrong all these years. They'd have to admit they have subjected women to developing BREAST CANCER by their participation in the cover-up. Don't hold your breath waiting for the American Cancer Society to start telling the truth now. Don't hold your breath.

[Slyfox]

I guess you didn't catch my hyperbole. I am old enough to remember a time when it was thought to be normal to have five or more kids. Then, birth control pills came along and we were told, as a society, to free ourselves from the constraints of parenthood. Now, women are suffering an increase in breast cancer. In my own family, I have only one aunt who has had breast cancer. She is also the only one who took birth control pills. Coincidence? Probably not.

[Saundra Duffy]

Also, there is no evidence of a direct relationship between breast cancer and spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) in most of the studies that have been published.

Duh.

[Saundra Duffy]

Republican pro-life judge in San Diego Go jump in the lake (of fire).

[Prov3456]

My reading and research indicates that the studies which prove no connection between abortion and breast cancer were done on women "shortly" (ie. two years or less) after their abortions. The more time that passes between the abortion and participation in a study of this nature, the more likelihood of the development of breast cancer.

I have long wondered how many women who develop breast cancer in their 30s had abortions in their early-to-mid teens. I believe there is a direct correlation.

[Saundra Duffy]

www.AbortionBreastCancer.com

[Saundra Duffy]

Because this story is from CBN, it's going to be ridiculed by the mainstream media (what else is new?)

[Free_at_last_-2001]

this may be the most unpreported story out there... - True

[Saundra Duffy]

Someone needs to start developing registry of women who have had abortions and later developed breast cancer - and other complications as well. As it is, the abortion industry HATES it when anyone tries to keep records regarding abortion. They fight it tooth and nail!!! They don't want women having INFORMATION.

[jlogajan]

Someone needs to start developing registry of women who have had abortions and later developed breast cancer

Well, they did that in Denmark, but you don't like the results of that study.

[jlogajan]

Because this story is from CBN, it's going to be ridiculed by the mainstream media (what else is new?)

Because it cites absolutely no research, it will be totally and justly ignored.

[jlogajan]

My reading and research indicates that the studies which prove no connection between abortion and breast cancer were done on women "shortly" (ie. two years or less) after their abortions.

Yes, but your research would be better directed if you didn't do it all out of religious advocates' pamphlets.

Your objection is ridiculous because no one would limit it to that immediate a reaction.

In Denmark, abortions have been legal since 1939. Therefore the entire population at all age levels will have women who have and never have had abortions, and you have their breast cancer rates. Plus, best of all, in Denmark they have a registry of ALL medical procedures performed on everyone (best for this sort of research, I'm not advocating socialised medicine.) So they know who had what, when and where.

[Prov3456]

Just for the record: for most of our history, miscarriages were called "spontaneous abortions".

I remember getting into a heated argument with a "pro-choice" woman at church (United Methodist) who didn't believe my personal experience regarding legal abortion. She said she had had an abortion, and she "simply didn't believe it" when I told her of consequences of legal abortion. As we spoke more, it turns out she had lost a baby at 7-months gestation and the death certificate read "spontaneous abortion".

She wanted that child, and lost it through abortion--so of course she's "pro-choice". The problem is, that's a situation/loss/pain she needed to take up with God.

Legalized abortion, when the woman decides--for any or NO reason--to actively end the pregnancy, is completely different from what she labeled "pro-choice".

Legalized abortion has led to increased rates of breast cancer. It just isn't politically-correct to inform the women considering abortion that their lifetime health and welfare is at stake.

My question is: who will those many women sue when the truth comes out--as it will one day. (Remember, during the 1930s and 1940s, the average German didn't believe the rumors either, and denied the truth also, until the evidence was too overwhelming to deny any longer.)

(end rant)

[Dianna]

In my own family, I have only one aunt who has had breast cancer. She is also the only one who took birth control pills. Coincidence? Probably not.

In my own family I have one aunt who has had breast cancer. She is one of 6 who took birth control pills.

[Gophack]

Pro-life Bump from liberal California!

[Felicity]

Sorry for the delay in my reply. This is an excerpt from the American Cancer Society site: I have no reason to believe that this info is not accurate.
"The largest, and probably the most reliable, study of this topic was conducted recently in Denmark. In that study, all Danish women born between 1935 and 1978 (1.5 million women) were linked with The National Registry of Induced Abortions and with the Danish Cancer Registry. So, all information about their abortions and their breast cancer came from registries, was very complete, and was not influenced by recall bias. After adjusting for known breast cancer risk factors, the researchers found that induced abortion(s) had no overall effect on the risk of breast cancer. In this very large group of women, 1,338 cases of breast cancer occurred in women who had terminated pregnancies. The size of this study and the manner in which it was conducted provides substantial evidence that induced abortion does not affect a woman's risk of developing breast cancer."

[RJCogburn]

the increase in cancer rates mirror the increase in the use of both forms of birth control

Way too simple a view, not accounting for such things as geographical distribution like the increase incidence on Long Island, or for the ethnic distribution differences.