Steven Ertelt at Life News is reporting that a new study says that "Abortion Nearly Triples Breast Cancer Risk." This is nothing new. Karen Malec of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer says, “Fifty-four of 67 epidemiological studies since 1957 report an abortion-breast cancer link."
Abortion advocates can find solace in statements from the National Cancer Institute and various cancer groups to say there is no link between abortion and breast cancer, that is, that there is no increased risk to a woman's lifetime risk of developing breast cancer if she's had an induced abortion.
But as Malec notes, “National Cancer Institute (NCI) branch chief Dr. Louise Brinton and her colleagues admitted in a 2009 study led by Jessica Dolle that abortion raises risk." The significance of this is that Brinton was one of the leaders of the effort at NCI to debunk the ABC link. It's too bad when people at the NCI turn science into political science.
How many more studies have to keep pouring in before NCI and others recognize this harmful link between abortion and the increased risk of developing breast cancer? How long will it be before these studies suggesting this link between an induced abortion and an elevated risk of abortion is required to be disclosed as part of proper and full consent to having an abortion?
I'm not holding my breath to "authorities" recognizing the risk. They have too much invested in it. They've assured women for years that abortion is a fundamental good. It would take a metanoia-something akin to a spiritual conversion for them to admit that what they have been advocating and advising for and to women for so many years as a fundamental good has led to so much harm. But it's time that women be told of these studies which suggest a link as proper informed consent.
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Don Nelson
Nevada LIFE
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