|
|
|
|
Sri Lankan Study Finds
Abortion-Breast Cancer Link Part Two of Two Editor's note. My family is on vacation. While we are gone I'll be running some new stories and past articles that you've indicated you liked. Dave A report published in the June Cancer Epidemiology found that abortion triples the risk of developing breast cancer. Researchers from the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka studied 300 women to determine the effects of breastfeeding on cancer risk and discovered the impact of abortion during their work, according to the Daily Mail. "This study is further evidence that has been gathering from all around the world that abortion is a major risk factor for breast cancer," Jack Scarisbrick, chairman of the British group Life, told the Daily Mail. "When will the [medical] establishment face up to this fact and pull its head out of the sand? It is betraying women by failing to warn that what they are doing to their bodies--the quick fix of abortion--can do grave harm." Pro-abortionists predictably dismissed the study's results, pointing to the small number of women involved. But other recent studies in China, Turkey, and the U.S. have also found an abortion-breast cancer link, the Daily Mail reported. In addition to the abortion link, the study authors found that exposure to passive smoking and menopause are also associated with a greater incidence of breast cancer, although to a lesser degree than abortion. Their main focus was the impact of breastfeeding, and they found that the risk of breast cancer declines markedly the longer a baby is fed on the breast. |