[LibertyGirl77]

Is there a rock solid connection between breast cancer and abortion?

In a word: No.

Much as I (a rabid pro-lifer) would love for this to be the case, there is no clearly defined link between abortion and breast cancer. You can even check out the studies at the ABC site to see for yourself.

It's a case of our side doing what the left is famous for--skewing statistics to make our point. The real truth that there is actually a DECREASED risk of breast cancer that comes with childbirth.

Childless women (those who have never been pregnant), women who have had natural miscarriages, and women who have aborted all have a statistically similar risk of breast cancer. Women who give birth (and especially those who breastfeed) have a lower risk than each of those groups.

So, if you choose to abort your preborn baby, in addition to ending an innocent life, you are denying yourself a natural decrease in your lifetime risk for breast cancer. But you aren't increasing your risk above the level you already face as a childless female.

[Sock]

You can even check out the studies at the ABC site to see for yourself.

You mean these?

[aruanan]

It's a case of our side doing what the left is famous for--skewing statistics to make our point. The real truth that there is actually a DECREASED risk of breast cancer that comes with childbirth.

Thank you. See my shortly previous post. It's too bad that some people are so eager for a result that they'll resort to propaganda and innumeracy as long as it gets them what they want. It will just burn them in the end.

[plain talk]

I'm with you. Seems like an odd correlation to make. Could be something as simple as more people that have abortions also happen to smoke or take vodka intravenously or what have you...

[A. Pole]

Childless women (those who have never been pregnant), women who have had natural miscarriages, and women who have aborted all have a statistically similar risk of breast cancer.

Come on, you know better! You betrayed it by including miscarriages in your list. (Miscarriages physiologically are similar to abortion.) About HALF of abortion cases can be associated with abortion and some others with miscarriage.