ENDEAVOUR FORUM LETTERS - BABETTE FRANCIS
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WOMEN SHOULD BE TOLD OF BREAST CANCER LINK BABETTE FRANCIS
IF DOROTHY BLOOM, Senior Fellow in Canberra’s National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, considers the link between abortion and an increased risk of breast cancer’ is "ambiguous" (CT, 24 November, p.3), why are not Australian women informed of this possible risk factor? Surely for women to make an informed choice they need to know of all possible important consequences. It is ironic that someone with the title of "Senior Fellow" in "Population Health" should apparently be supportive of elective operations which destroy foetuses and may cause a "small" increase in breast cancer. Has Dorothy Bloom any idea of the terror and anguish caused to the individual if there is even one more case of breast cancer? Quite apart from the issue of abortion, epidemiologists should be informing teenagers and young women that their pregnancy of itself, if carried to term, affords substantial protection against breast cancer, which is the major cause of premature death and/or mutilation in women (apart from road accidents). Why are population experts so keen to protect the status of abortion when the medical profession is becoming increasingly opposed to other elective operations such as tonsillectomies and circumcisions? BABETE FRANCIS National & Overseas Co-ordinator Endeavour Forum Inc. Toorak, Victoria
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Member Organisation, World Council for Life and Family NGO in Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC of the UN
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