Jerry Novotny OMI jerry@shirt.ocn.ne.jp www.lifeissues.net
2012-06-10 Link between abortion and breast cancer
Even
though 53 out of 66 studies done since 1957 show an increased risk of breast
cancer after induced abortion, Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards sent out
an impassioned plea for money to fight new Kansas legislation that she
deceptively claims will "force doctors to lie to their patients. Even if
the woman seeking abortion is a victim of rape or incest, her doctor will lie to
her about her risk of breast cancer on the orders of Kansas lawmakers. How
awful. How cruel. Help us stop it," she says. Richards is upset because the
new legislation requires abortionists to warn women about the correlation
between induced abortion and breast cancer. She then says that there is a
"complete lack of evidence that abortion will increase the risk of breast
cancer." Really, Cecile?
Dr. Angela Lanfranchi blasts Richards' ongoing attempt at hiding the truth. Dr.
Lanfranchi is a clinical assistant professor of surgery at Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School and a breast oncologic surgeon. In October 2011, she summarized
the scientific studies about the abortion-breast cancer link: Since 1957 there
been 66 studies done which looked at the relation of induced abortion and breast
cancer, including 53 which showed a positive correlation and 25 that were
statistically significant. There were only 13 which showed no association.
What is most telling is that one study author, Louise Brinton, had been a leader
at the 2003 NCI Workshop on Early Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer Risk
which concluded that there was no association between breast cancer and induced
abortion. In 2009, Louise
Brinton has now reported that there is a 40 percent statistically
significant increase of breast cancer with induced abortion. Recent studies from
Turkey, Iran, and China have been published in the last five years. A list of
the epidemiologic studies of the induced abortion and breast cancer risk from
1957 through 2011 is available at the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute website
in the form of a reproducible
fact sheet.
God Bless,
Jerry Novotny, OMI