Abortion, cancer clearly linked

"October is to breast cancer groups as Christmas is to retailers," quipped Professor Joel Brind, president of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute. October is "Breast Cancer Awareness Month," but breast cancer groups are keeping women unaware of a new study in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons by Patrick Carroll showing that abortion is the "best predictor of breast cancer."

Their silence speaks loudly of a feminist agenda, but who can be surprised?

These groups delayed acknowledgment of the cancer-causing effects of oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy for more than 13 years. Carroll's research agrees with biological evidence and most epidemiological studies showing that abortion leaves women with more places for breast cancers to start. Additionally, cancer groups already admit that childbearing reduces breast cancer risk.

Only childbearing matures 85 percent of a woman's breast tissue from cancer-vulnerable tissue into cancer-resistant tissue.

That explains why scientists have found a statistical relationship between: 1) Having a large family and reduced risk; and 2) Having an early first full-term pregnancy and reduced risk (the earlier, the lower the risk). If childbearing protects women from the disease, then it's not debatable that: 1) Breast cancer rates will increase in any society where abortion becomes prevalent; and 2) The young woman who has an abortion has a greater risk than does the one who has a baby. It takes a lack of fear of medical malpractice lawsuits for experts to admit that abortion results in the loss of the protective effect of childbearing. But the truth comes out when they're forced to testify under oath, as in the case of an expert witness for the Center for Reproductive Rights, Dr. Lynn Rosenberg.

In a 1999 Florida lawsuit, she conceded point No. 2 above.

Karen Malec

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

Hoffman Estates