Twelve studies into the link between breast cancer and abortion have shown that on average, women who have had a prior abortion have a 554% greater risk of developing the disease.
The President of the Population Research Institute (PRI), Steven W. Mosher, reports the findings from studies conducted in the Indian subcontinent between 2008 and 2013.
He says there are reams of reliable data on the subject, adding: “Abortion rights activists, who like to argue that abortion has no lasting health risks, will find it very, very difficult to explain away such numbers.”
He says the main reason the findings are so important “is that women in India and neighbouring countries are simply ideal subjects for studies …they marry early, do not use the pill, have multiple pregnancies, and breastfeed their babies.”
In other words says Mosher, all of the other major risk factors for breast cancer are absent.
He explains that many women in the West engage in “behaviours besides abortion that can cause breast cancer” such as marrying later in life, the use of oral contraceptives at a young age, the use of Hormone Replacement Therapy when older, having only one or no full-term pregnancies and not breastfeeding their babies.
“When these ‘confounding factors’ – as they are called - are present, they make it difficult to sort out just how much induced abortions raise a woman's lifetime breast cancer risk,” says Mosher.
The PRI President accuses the abortion movement of continuing “to whistle past the graveyard—where the bodies of women who have died from abortion-induced breast cancer are buried.”
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