Posted on 12/05/2001 2:28:58 AM PST by 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 Yorks 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 MORIs 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.
Rememeber GOD never lies !!! People do.
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).
"...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.
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.
Pick your evil, then blame everything on 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 dont 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 Associations 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 womens lives and womens health, the ABC Quarterly Update, your source for life-saving knowledge in a life-threatening world.
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?
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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