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December 5, 2013
New research shows abortion raises breast cancer risk 44 percent
PETER BALINSKI lifesitenews.com with further information from World Net Daily
A new meta-analysis of studies has concluded that a single induced abortion raises the risk of breast cancer for a woman by a shocking 44 percent. The analysis, by a team of researchers led by Dr Yubei Huang, was published in the peer-reviewed journal Cancer Causes and Control, and looked at all 36 studies that have taken place in China regarding the risk of developing breast cancer for women who have had at least one induced abortion.
The risk of breast cancer soared by 44 percent, Huang found, after one abortion. After two abortions, the risk rose to 76 percent. After three, it climbed to 89 percent.
Dr. Joel Brind, professor of endocrinology at Baruch College, City University of New York and a director at the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, called the findings a “real game changer”.
Dr Brind had previously conducted a 1996 meta-analysis which found that women had a 30 percent greater chance of developing breast cancer after aborting their child. “Not only does [the study] validate the earlier findings from 1996, but its findings are even stronger,” Brind told LifeSiteNews.com.
Brind said that pro-abortion advocates should be “very concerned” about the research since it shows how “millions upon millions” of women in Asia are negatively affected by what abortion’s most vocal proponents call a “safe” procedure.
Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women's Rights Without Frontiers, said the research reveals “yet another human rights violation in connection with China's One Child Policy.” “So, the women of China have to endure the tremendous trauma of late term forced abortion, taking their babies from them, and then years later, breast cancer, taking their health and even their lives from them,” she told LifeSiteNews.com.
The Chinese research follows on the heels of two similar studies earlier this year. One study published in the Indian Journal of Community Medicine in May found a 6-fold greater risk of breast cancer among Indian women with a history of induced abortion when compared to the women with no such history. A similar study from Bangladesh published in the Journal of the Dhaka Medical College in April found that women with a history of induced abortion had a 20-fold increase in likelihood of developing breast cancer when compared to women with no such history.
In a report last month, Brind called the findings of the two studies “of the sort of magnitude that has typified the link between cigarettes and lung cancer.”
Brind said that despite the evidence, abortion advocates “have viciously been attacking pro-life pregnancy resources centers (PRCs) for ‘lying’ to women by telling them about the ABC link as a reality.”
But now comes the confirming Chinese study.
“Not only does it validate the earlier findings from 1996, but its findings are even stronger,” he said. First, it documents a 44 percent breast cancer risk increase with a single abortion. It also confirms the “dose effect,” that more abortions results in a higher risk, he said.
“Risk factors that show such a dose effect have more credibility in terms of actually causing the disease,” he noted.
Third, he pointed out the China study’s statement that the “lack of a social stigmas associated with induced abortion in China may limit the amount of underreporting.”
Other studies, she said, have been attacked based on the assumption that many women have abortions but won’t admit it, keeping their healthy results out of the study tabulations.
That “line of attack,” he said, “has now been neutralized.”
The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer has posted online links to various studies on the subject.
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