Abortion link to rise in breast cancer ( In the first study of its kind in Britain )

thescotsman ^ | 12/05/2001 | Michelle Nichols

[KQQL]

Abortion link to rise in breast cancer

Michelle Nichols

WOMEN who have had an abortion are nearly twice as likely to suffer from breast cancer, scientists claimed yesterday.

In the first study of its kind in Britain, researchers said the risk of breast cancer is significantly increased if a woman has undergone a termination.

The study, which looked at breast cancer and abortion rates in Britain, Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic, draws a direct link between rising cases of breast cancer and an increase in abortion since it was legalised.

The research, by the Populations and Pensions Research Institution, an independent group of statisticians, suggests that up to 50 per cent of breast cancer cases in England and Wales over the next 26 years will be "attributable to abortion".

Patrick Carroll, researcher and author of the study, said the total number of breast cancer cases is expected to more than double from 35,110 in 1997 to 77,000 in 2023. The rise is "largely" because of abortions carried out on women who have not yet had a baby, he said.

Launching the study - which was funded by the anti-abortion charity Life - Professor Joel Brind, of New York’s City University and director of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute in New York, said: "Women are at risk and they do not really know about it."

Meanwhile, two-thirds of the British public support abortion, a poll has revealed.

New research by MORI’s Social Research Institute shows that 65 per cent of people agree that if a woman wants an abortion she should not have to continue with her pregnancy.

Around one in six disagree and a similar proportion are neutral or express no opinion on the contentious issue.

[krodriguesdc]

WOW - this says it all...

[Malesherbes]

It will be interesting to see how the American media spin this. My guess is that they will simply ignore it.

[KQQL]

That's why the rate of Breast Cancer has gone up !!!
I wonder if the liberal media in the US will write about this study.

Rememeber GOD never lies !!! People do.

[KQQL]

you read my mind.

[syriacus]

the total number of breast cancer cases is expected to more than double from 35,110 in 1997 to 77,000 in 2023. The rise is "largely" because of abortions carried out on women who have not yet had a baby, he said.

Does this mean that legalized abortion kills more women than back-alley abortions did?

When the insurance companies think this over, will they decide to ask women if they have had an abortion and then consider them a greater insurance risk if they have had one? (Like they ask people if they smoke cigarettes so they can determine if they are a greater risk).

[Quila]

Can we have a link to the original study?

"...funded by the anti-abortion charity Life" pretty much told us what the results would be before the study started, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt if I could read the study.

[jimtorr]

VI> When the insurance companies think this over, will they decide to ask women if they have had an abortion and then consider them a greater insurance risk if they have had one?

Chances are, efforts will be made to make this question illegal. Those efforts will probably succeed. I wonder if its legal for an insurance company to ask a man if he is gay? After all, if a man participates in gay sex, chances are he will die of aids.

[abigail2]

I think if studies were done, they would find that suicide, child abuse and all sorts of horrors can be linked to abortion.

[driftless]

You are correct, liberals and leftists have always and will always choose to ignore unpleasant facts that do not agree with their theories about how the world is to be run.

[rocketdoc]

We had a similar study done in the USA about 2 years ago. The pro-abortion industry managed to cover it up completely. Women shall reap what they sow.

[Quila]

Studies show that most abortions result in the abuse and later suicide of the child.

Pick your evil, then blame everything on it.

[syriacus]

Launching the study - which was funded by the anti-abortion charity Life - Professor Joel Brind, of New York’s City University and director of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute in New York, said: "Women are at risk and they do not really know about it."

Here's what Dr. Joel Brind says

http://www.abortioncancer.com/

Just over three years ago, I found myself negotiating with an editorial page editor of a newspaper out west. The paper had just published a debate column on the abortion-breast cancer issue, wherein one side cited yours truly by name as the main source of fact, and the other side cited me as the main source of fiction!

At one point during the arduous process of bargaining the editor up from a 150 to a 600 word response they would publish, she told me "If you don’t like our policy you can start your own newspaper."

Finally, in October 1996, I and colleagues from the Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey published a "Comprehensive Review and Meta-analysis" on ABC in the British Medical Association’s Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health1. Our finding of significantly increased risk in the totality of worldwide medical literature garnered headlines, but only momentarily. And the main-stream organs of public health policy and the media have wasted no time in using their power and prestige to bury the truth about the single most avoidable risk factor for breast cancer: induced abortion.

Therefore I offer to all of you who really care about women’s lives and women’s health, the ABC Quarterly Update, your source for life-saving knowledge in a life-threatening world.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

New research by MORI’s Social Research Institute shows that 65 per cent of people agree that if a woman wants an abortion she should not have to continue with her pregnancy

How about if the remaining 35% don't have to pay for the cancer treatment in their system of socialized medicine?

I read somewhere that in Russia, women have on average 5 abortions in their life. Wonder what the cancer rates must be there?

[syriacus]

Here's the bio on Joel Brind, PhD.

BTW, When did Nancy Snyderman conduct her study?

Joel Brind, Ph.D., is a Professor of biology and endocrinology at Baruch College of the City University of NY, where he has been teaching since 1986. He earned his B.S. from Yale in 1971 and his Ph.D. from NY University in 1981. His research on the connections between reproductive hormones and human disease has included breast cancer since 1982.

Since 1992 Dr. Brind has written and lectured extensively on the connection between induced abortion and breast cancer. His peer-reviewed research paper on the subject, “Induced Abortion as an Independent Risk Factor for Breast Cancer: A Comprehensive Review and Meta-Analysis”, which he wrote in collaboration with colleagues at the Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, PA, appeared in the October, 1996 issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and community Health, Published by the British Medical Association.

Since the Publication of this important paper, Dr. Brind has been invited to discuss this issue on news programs of the major television and radio networks, including CNN, CBS, CBC, NPR and ABC, as well as in new articles in newspapers such as the NY Times and Wall Street Journal, and magazines such as Time, Newsweek and US News and World Report. His Research has also recently been the subject of discussion in the most prominent medical journals, including the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the New England Journal of Medicine and the British Medical Journal.

Since April 1997, Dr. Brind has been publishing the “Abortion-Breast Cancer Quarterly Update”

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[syriacus]

Those who want a list of many sources (science and medical journal articles) can also click on the References link at http://www.abortioncancer.com/

[aruanan]

WOMEN who have had an abortion are nearly twice as likely to suffer from breast cancer, scientists claimed yesterday.

This was not a study. It was an exercise in statistical cherry picking amongst other previous studies. Previous studies have not shown an unambiguous risk that was much higher than background noise. Some people who are either ignorant about statistics in epidemiology (or who are dishonestly representing them) misrepresent figures of relative risk. A less than one hundred percent increase in relative risk does not mean that nearly twice as many women will develop breast cancer. Relative risk doesn't work this way. In epidemiology, you have to have a relative risk greater than 3 to even be entering a region of unambiguous correlation between one thing and another. In this instance the level of relative risk is a fraction of that which is considered to be merely background noise. Doubling this means only slightly less murky results that are nearly indistinguishable from background noise. If a slight chance that a very small number of the total number of breast cancers is doubled, this doesn't mean that the total number of breast cancers will be doubled. The most it could mean is that that very small number of the total could maybe, perhaps, be increased.

Things that most dramatically reduce (aside from not being genetically predisposed) a woman's risk of breast cancer are 1. having children and 2. breast feeding. They both reduce risk because the woman goes through a smaller total number of fertility cycles in her lifetime. Anything that increases this number, not breast feeding, breast feeding less, having fewer children by aborting one or just having one less or having none at all, will increase a woman's risk of breast cancer. There has been, though, NO indication that abortion introduces a separate risk factor that is intrinsic to abortion itself that is responsible for this slight increase in relative risk. For those of you out there, and you know who you are, who are dishonest enough to claim that my saying this is equivalent to approving abortion--you have already aborted your ability to reason honestly and are merely engaged in sloganeering and propaganda. In the end this will only hurt the pro-life cause.