Scientific journals are reluctant to publish what they see as 'contentious' articles that show a link between abortion and breast cancer. Other journals, bowing to political pressure, continue to publish flawed studies
- Breast cancer researchers believe the connection between breast cancer and induced abortion is being actively suppressed.
- Abortion advocates consider it to be a ploy of opponents as only 'pro-life' publications will publish most studies.
- Abortions before a first full-term pregnancy are the best indicator of British breast cancer trends.
- Upper class British women are more likely to develop breast cancer and die from it.
- Upper class women are more likely to abort a pregnancy in order to postpone the birth of a first child.
Medical groups whose doctors do not perform abortions, or refer women for abortions, will be among the first to recognize that abortion raises a woman's breast cancer risk."
This could be an explanation why medical journals persistently deny a link between abortion and breast cancer. According to Dr Joel Brind, of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, several editorials and opinion pieces on the ABC link published in scientific journals expressed the opinion that there is no ABC link.
Letters published in medical journals documenting serious flaws in studies showing no ABC link have, however, been ignored by some researchers and editors. See more here Breast Cancer Prevention Institute
Pregnancy and cancer Brind, a biochemist, originally became involved in breast cancer research in 1982. He wasn't particularly interested in abortion but had adopted the basic 'pro-choice' mentality that was part of the surrounding culture. Late in October 1992, he came across an article in Science News which he realised was misleading.
In an interview for Physician magazine he said:
"The feature story, "Pregnancy and Cancer," detailed how pregnancy lowered the risk of breast cancer and told that a group of researchers, headed by Malcolm Pike of the University of Southern California, were developing a hormonal cocktail to simulate pregnancy's protective effect. But something was wrong with the article: It never mentioned the word "term."
"To my surprise, the story aroused only a smattering of interest from some pro-life groups."
Abortion leading predictor of beast cancer
At the British Cancer Research Meeting 2004 in Manchester, Patrick Carroll, director of research for the Pension and Population Research Institute in London, demonstrated that, in general, the best predictor of breast cancer among British women is legal induced abortion.More specifically abortions before first full term pregnancy, which occur with greater frequency among upper class women, were the best predictor of English breast cancer trends. Although upper class women have better access to health care than do lower class women, English upper class women are more likely to develop breast cancer and to die of their breast cancers than lower class women.
Upper class women typically choose to pursue their careers and their educations before starting their families. They're more likely to choose to abort a pregnancy in order to postpone the birth of a first child.
Carroll calls nulliparous abortions "highly carcinogenic." English upper class women are having their abortions during the most carcinogenic time in a woman's life - the time between the onset of her menstrual periods and her first full term pregnancy.
English upper class women are having their abortions during the most carcinogenic time in a woman's life. |
This is supported by biological evidence and the rationale for the abortion-breast cancer link. Russo and Russo have shown in their research that breast tissue maturity influences the development of breast cancer.
Nulliparous abortions (before a first full-term pregnancy) are highly carcinogenic. The period between menarche and and a first full term pregnancy is a critical time in a woman's life when she is most susceptible to carcinogens.
Doctors compound the problem when they prescribe oral contraceptives to women before their first full term pregnancies, or after an abortion. Like hormone replacement therapy, oral contraceptives contain steroidal estrogens. Steroidal estrogens are on the list of known carcinogens.
The incidence of breast cancer varies in different parts of the British isles, with the highest incidence of breast cancer in the regions where abortion rates are highest. The lowest incidence of breast cancer in the regions studied by Carroll was in Ireland, where abortion remains illegal.
The rates of breast cancer rose by a spectacular 70 percent rate between 1971 and 2002, as abortion become more common. Over the years, the occurrence of breast cancer among women aged 50-54 varied with the incidence of abortion among those women.
Source: Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer www.AbortionBreastCancer.com
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