BRITISH RESEARCH ON ABORTION-BREAST CANCER

Research on the abortion-breast cancer link was presented on Wednesday, August 10 by British researcher, Patrick Carroll, at the Joint Statistical Meetings at the Minneapolis Convention Center - the largest gathering of statisticians in North America.

Carroll directs the Pensions and Population Research Institute in London. His research showed that abortion is the best predictor of three British breast cancer trends and points to the legalization of abortion in the UK in 1967 as the beginning of a dramatic rise in the incidence of breast cancer, to emphazise these trends.

Trend #1: Upper class women are the most likely to develop breast cancer and die of the disease. For other cancers, lower social classes experience higher incidence and mortality rates. Abortion before a first birth (the most carcinogenic abortion) and delayed first birth among upper class women provide the best explanations for this trend.

Trend #2: Variations in breast cancer rates among regions of the British Isles can be explained by differences in abortion rates. Breast cancer rates are greatest in the South East (116 per 100,000) where abortion rates are higher than in other regions. Breast cancer incidence is lowest in Ireland (97 per 100,000) where abortion is prohibited.

Trend #3: Breast cancer rates increased approximately 70% between 1971 and 2002. Breast cancer incidence for women aged 50-54 in successive birth cohorts is highly correlated with abortion incidence, and is less highly correlated with other factors associated with breast cancer, i.e., fertility, prevalence of childlessness and age at first birth.

Karen Malec, President of The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer an international women's organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer, comments:

“Carroll's research is significant because he used national data reporting breast cancers and abortions. Therefore, it's free of any possibility of a hypothetical problem called ‘recall bias.’ Opponents of the abortion-cancer link have never provided credible evidence of recall bias. Nevertheless, they argue that research depending on interviews with women to report their abortion histories is flawed because more cancer patients than healthy women accurately report their abortions.

Evidence pointing to an abortion-breast cancer link, commonly known as the ABC link, is present in 29 of 38 published studies conducted worldwide since 1957. Seventeen of the 29 are statistically significant, which means there's a 95% certainty that the association is not by chance.

In 1996 Dr. Joel Brind, a professor of biology and endocrinology at Baruch College of the City University of New York and perhaps the most well-known ABC link researcher,

conducted a meta-analysis and review of all the studies done in the previous decade and found a 30% increased risk of breast cancer for women choosing an abortion after a first full-term pregnancy and a 50% increase for women choosing an abortion before a first full-term pregnancy.

The basic biology underlying the ABC link boils down to the fact that breast cancer is linked to reproductive hormones, particularly estrogen. At conception, a woman's estrogen levels increase hundreds of times above normal – 2,000% by the end of the first trimester. That hormone surge leads to the growth of "undifferentiated" cells in the breast as the body prepares to produce milk for the coming baby.

Undifferentiated cells are vulnerable to the effects of carcinogens, which can give rise to cancerous tumors later in life. In the final weeks of a full-term pregnancy, those cells are "terminally differentiated" through a still largely unknown process and are ready to produce milk. Differentiated cells are not as vulnerable to carcinogens.

However, should a pregnancy be terminated prior to cell differentiation, the woman is left with abnormally high numbers of undifferentiated cells, therefore increasing her risk of developing breast cancer. Spontaneous abortions, or miscarriages, are not generally associated with increased risk, since they generally occur due to insufficient estrogen hormones to begin with.

The MYTH still persists in many minds that Induced Abortions protect women’s health. However, UN data tells what happens to maternal mortality if induced abortions are made rare. Between 1989 and 1993 Poland’s induced abortion rate dropped by 97%. By 1999 the maternal mortality rate (5.2/100,000) was cut 59% compared to the average of 1987 & 1988 (13.5/100,000). The Polish maternal mortality figures are sourced from UN. Before the Polish government started introducing restrictions on abortion, there were, of course, dire warnings about what the health effects on women would be. The resulting SILENCE from abortion advocates about the actual results is DEAFENING and is surely a tell-tale sign of the success. Polish women have a relatively low risk of breast cancer also.

Fighting Mad? Mad apology too..... Editor

The Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender & Supporters Alliance of Harvard University is fighting mad. Actress Jada Pinkett Smith won an award from the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. During her acceptance speech, she told women in the audience, "you can have it all – a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career … To my men, open your mind, open your eyes to new ideas."

Rather sweet, no? Not to the BGLTSA, which called for an apology from the organizers of the Cultural Rhythms show, explaining that Smith's statements were "extremely heteronormative". "Heteronormative," for those who don't speak the radical homosexual lingo, may be defined as the viewpoint that heterosexual relationships are normal, and others are not. The organizers immediately complied with the BGLTSA's demand, issuing a mea culpa stating, "She wasn't trying to be offensive. But some felt she was taking a narrow view, and some people felt left out........”

And the new politically correct definition of “homophobia” is “a belief that homosexual acts are immoral”......