Abortion - Breast Cancer

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I was having a conversation with people at one point recently about the correlation between abortion and breast cancer. I thought they might be interested in this article.

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070423/ap_on_he_me/abortion_cancer;_ylt=AtyjMjsN9SVjKknavUMmQa7MWM0F

I’ve no desire to start a debate on this. I just have no clue what thread that was.

<PS: This is of course just as subjective as the people who believe there is a connection… Since we have no way of knowing for sure either way with the current technology.>
 
That’s a good article…I would also suggest you read this article, from my sister’s blog Catholic-mother: The Fruit of Contraception is the title. It is actually her article which has been published in the New Oxford Review magazine. This is an article on oral contraceptives and breast cancer.

catholic-mother.com/

Oh you can find the article in her blog and it’s titled New Oxford Review. 🙂
 
It’s interesting… I don’t have statistics at hand, but I have heard that breast cancer is more common today than it was, say 50 years ago, and particularly it seems to be striking women earlier.

What does seem to be conclusive is that carrying a pregnancy to term and breast-feeding reduces incidence of breast cancer.

What seems to be inconclusive is whether there is a clear link between abortion and breast cancer. But if there is also a link between oral contraceptives and breast cancer, which there may or may not be, this muddies the waters considerably, because a study that is trying to discern a connection between abortion and breast cancer has to do this amidst an elevated background of breast cancer in general, whether due to widespread long-term use of oral contraceptives, or other factors.

Other factors that could also elevate the baseline could be… unknown environmental factors, women having fewer children, majority of women of a certain era (say 1960s thru 1980s) choosing to formula-feed rather than breast-feed.

I also wonder if there is any connection with the observed phenomenon of girls beginning menstruation at a younger age, on average. That could possibly be related to unknown environmental factors (be it diet or something else) that has some effect on hormones, which I suppose could also be tied in to other health effects in a way which has not yet been determined.

Anyway, all very complex, and it’s also been suggested that studies suggesting a positive correlation between abortion or oral contraception and breast cancer get buried, or relegated to obscure journals, which is not helpful.
 
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It’s interesting… I don’t have statistics at hand, but I have heard that breast cancer is more common today than it was, say 50 years ago, and particularly it seems to be striking women earlier.
More likely awareness and the ability to detect it much earlier would be the cause of a supposed increase.
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I just read an article today about the latest medical study – finding no causal connection between abortion and breast cancer. I think it was the Chicago Tribune – I’ll try to find a link.
 
PLAL - I just can’t seem to get over the fact that I believe this to be a scare tactic by the various anti-abortion, anti-contraception religious organizations.

I personally, would need a source that was openly pro-choice backing up findings about a abortion-breast cancer link. Or contraception-breast cancer link.
 
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