Pro-Life Advocate: Report Ignores Evidence of Abortion-Breast Cancer Link
by Bill Fancher
October 20, 2004
(AgapePress) - A pro-life activist is taking issue with a new medical research report that negates the link between breast cancer and abortion.The Royal College of Obstetricians has issued its conclusion that no link exists between abortion and a woman's chance of developing breast cancer. These findings have been released despite extensive contrary evidence, including more than two dozen long-standing studies that have previously determined an abortion-breast cancer link does exist.
Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion / Breast Cancer, was not happy with the study. "They listed a number of studies," she says, "and they decided to choose only the more recent studies that have been conducted, and I take issue with that."
Malec says the studies used by the College included flawed research. She also objects to the failure of the report to detail risk factors, such as childlessness, having a small family, delayed first-full-term pregnancy, and little or no breast-feeding.
"All of these things raise a woman's breast cancer risk," the pro-life activist explains. "The problem is that [the College and many pro-abortion researchers] are not willing to finger abortion as the culprit," she adds, "and abortion is the culprit. It has changed women's childbearing patterns."
Nevertheless, Malec says the Royal College of Obstetricians refuses to acknowledge abortion as a common element linking many of these risk factors.
