Abortion Tradeoffs
Hey, what’s a few more cases of breast cancer when something so important as the "right" to an abortion is on the line? For some, that’s just a necessary tradeoff.
A women’s group is asking Congress and the Obama administration to investigate the expose’ showing how a top National Cancer Institute researcher recently admitted that abortion causes a 40% breast cancer increase risk but organizing a meeting to get the NCI to deny it.
As LifeNews.com reported earlier this month [January], the main NCI activist who got the agency to deny the abortion-breast cancer link has co-authored a study admitting the abortion-breast cancer link is true, calling it a "known risk factor."
The study, conducted by Jessica Dolle and NCI official Louise Brinton, appears in the April 2009 issue of the prestigious cancer epidemiology journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.
The Dolle study, conducted with Janet Daling of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, cited as accurate Daling’s studies from 1994 and 1996 that showed between a 20 and 50 percent increased breast cancer risk for women having abortions compare to those who carried their pregnancies to term.
Now, the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer informed LifeNews.com today it is sending a letter, signed by doctors and pro-life organizations to President Obama and the leaders of Congress calling for an investigation of the U.S. National Cancer Institute.
Karen Malec, the head of the group, told LifeNews.com the letter "puts political leaders on notice of a discrepancy between what the National Cancer Institute says about the breast cancer risks of abortion … and what Louise Brinton, the NCI’s Chief of the Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, has reported in her research."
"The letter asks Congress to investigate the NCI’s failure to issue timely warnings about breast cancer risks and asks political leaders to remove public funding for abortion from all legislation being considered by this Congress," she said.
The truth doesn’t matter to these people. What’s more important is the freedom to kill their inconvenient children. Are those the kind of politics your vote supports?
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There are always some studies, on any question, which get the wrong answer. This is called STATISTICAL NOISE.
You need to look at ALL the studies, compare their sizes and designs, and get the big picture. And the big picture overwhelmingly says, there is no link between abortion and breast-cancer.
Doug, you need to go back to school and take a course in epidemiology. And another in statistics and probability. Your post indicates that you do not know enough basic math to understand these questions.
The point of the article, and my post, is that the same person who got the organization to publicly deny a link also co-authored a study saying (a bit more quietly) there’s a known risk. It’s the inconsistency that I’m putting forth as the problem. To say one thing very publicly and yet deny it in private causes me to question their motivation.