To: Ragtime Cowgirl
The increased risk of breast cancer from excess weight is both solidly proven and statistically higher than the abortion-breast-cancer-link researchers claims of the risk increase from abortion. So if the risk is so small from increased weight that it's not worth doctors and counselors bringing it up routinely, why should anyone be expected to bring up the smaller ALLEGED risk from abortion?
Either it's important to warn women about ways they can reduce their risk of breast cancer or it isn't. If prospective abortion is the only situation in which abortion-breast-cancer-link activists are chastising doctors and counselors for not discussing breast cancer risk with patients (and it is), then obviously reducing breast cancer is not their real objective.
To: GovernmentShrinker
So if the risk is so small from increased weight that it's not worth doctors and counselors bringing it up routinelyBecause more women die from heart disease than breast cancer and obesity is a factor in a multitude of diseases, including some but not all types of cancer.
49 posted on
02/16/2003 5:15:41 PM PST by
Scupoli
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