... Post-Abortion Syndrome. Negative effects on the mother's body can also stem from using abortion methods, such as the use of RU 486, a controversial abortion pill and a increased risk of breast cancer is another effect of abortions. Other side effects of abortion, from emotional scars to a detachment from God and religion can also result. The choice to have an abortion is still ... can assist abnormal cells into becoming cancerous. The study also revealed that the number of induced abortions increases proportionally to the risk toward breast cancer. Therefore, having an abortion can harm...

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... very harmful to the mother. Twenty-seven out of thirty-four independent studies conducted throughout the world (including thirteen out of fourteen in the United States) have linked abortion and breast cancer. Seventeen of these studies show a statistically significant relationship. Five show more than twice the risk. In fact in girls under eighteen who abort at eight weeks of pregnancy or greater ... there is a 150% increase in the rate of breast cancer. They think that this is happening because during pregnancy a woman's breast begin developing a hormone that causes cells both normal a...

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... might be caused by some unknown, third factor. In the case of abortion and breast cancer, no studies have yet established exactly how abortion and later development of breast cancer might be linked, if they are at all. For all women, the risk of breast cancer increases with age. According to the National Cancer Institute, this risk rises from about 1 in 2,525 for a woman in her thirties ... seventies, to a lifetime risk of about 1 in 8 for a woman who lives to be 95 years old. Some anti-choice organizations have worked hard to stir up fears that abortion causes breast cancer even though...

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... groups, studies have not shown that induced abortions increase the risk of breast cancer. Independent experts such as the National Breast Cancer Coalition, the American Cancer Society, and the World Health Organization have concluded that no link has been established between abortion and breast cancer. (Mads Melbye et. al., Induced Abortion and the Risk of Breast Cancer, 336[2] New Eng. J. Med. 81) In states that enforce no mandatory parental ... ...

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... promoted primarily by anti-abortion groups, but lack scientific support. For example, the question of a link between induced abortion and breast cancer has been investigated extensively. Major medical and scientific bodies have concluded that abortion does not cause breast cancer, although such a link continues to be promoted by anti-abortion groups. The American Psychological Association has concluded that a single abortion ... abortion to protect the life of the mother, or in response to the potential damage that may occur to the fetus during treatment. This is particularly true for c...

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... Testing for Late Onset Diseases It is possible to test individuals for a late onsetting disease before the first symptoms are seen. Huntington's disease, familial Alzheimer disease, familial Coulomb cancer, or familial breast cancer are all examples of late on setting genetic disease. No symptoms are seen until late adulthood. Testing for these late onsetting diseases is theoretically different from testing for predisposition ... the disease defining mutations. For example, a woman carrying dominant mutation of BRCA-1 gene has a penetrance rate of 50% by age 50, and 85% throughout life....

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... and even death. On top of the horrifying abortion, it could fail or complications could occur where you would then have to seek further medical attention. Breast cancer has also been found to be a possible side-effect of abortion. According to Dr. and Mrs. J.C. Wilke in "Why Can't We Love Them ... Both", a definitive study was done by H.L. Howe. "She investigated all the women in this who developed breast cancer under age 40 and checked to see whether or not they had abortions. The conclusion was that women who had aborted their first pregnancy had a 1.7 ... times increased risk of bre...

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... . The mother could also become sterilized and even permanent ability to bear a child. There has been evidence showing that the mother can get breast cancer by getting an abortion. By doing this it has increased their chances of breast cancer by 50%. During abortions they take out the tissues, there could be an infection if there is tissue left behind in the uterus. Mother ... benefits maybe available for prenatal, child birth and neonatal cost. The father must support the child. Opponents say the bill say some women run a higher risk of breast cancer while other groups like the national ...

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... always have a good out come. Women who carry their first baby to full term nine months cut their chance for breast cancer in half. Miscarriage (called spontaneous abortion) does not increase the chance of breast cancer either. Induced abortions do increase the risk of breast cancer, regardless of the age of the women at the time, whether she"d had children before, or how late into the ... ...

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... heart failure, paranoia, hallucinations, delusions, loss of interest in sex, marijuana even contains some of the same, and sometimes even more of the cancer-causing chemicals found in tobacco. These drugs can hurt you and those who surround you. I don't understand why would anyone go through the risk ... can occur after drinking over a relatively short period of time. But other problems such as liver disease, heart disease, certain forms of cancer, and pancreatitis often develop more gradually and may become evident only after long-term heavy drinking. Women may develop alcohol-related h...

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... depression especially if the mother later discovers that she cannot have children in their future life. Medical links are now being drawn between breast cancer and abortion; it has been discovered that having an abortion increases the risk of breast cancer by 21%. Having an abortion can also increase the risk of the woman having an eptopic pregnancy in the future; this is where ... ...

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... effects. Many complications are common after an abortion, like inflammation of the reproductive organs. As well, there is strong evidence that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer. Women that abort increase their chances of getting breast cancer by 50%, and teenagers with no previous pregnancies that abort after the 8th week increase their probability by 800%. UNICEF states that 250,000 women die ... ...

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... could puncture the uterus causing injury, infection, and bleeding to internal organs. The Journal of the National Cancer Institute states that women who have abortions also increase their risk of breast cancer by 50 percent. Abortion of a first pregnancy interrupts the natural growth process of the breast, leaving millions of cells at a high risk.. Future pregnancy failure is increased by 45 percent with just ... ...

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... have negative effects on the mother. In the author's questionnaire data was also collected concerning the physical effects, over 50% of the participants agreed that women could show signs of breast cancer, miscarriages and bleeding from the pelvis as physical effects (See Appendix C for visual statistics). The data that the author has collected corresponds with that of Elizabeth Ring-Cassidy and Ian ... Gentles, (2002) whom have described many of the negative effects following abortions. They described some of the physical effects as an increase in the over-all risk of breast cancer by ...

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... what she had done and the result can be tragic for her. Fourthly, getting an abortion is critical to one's health. A woman who gets an abortion increases the risk of breast cancer. When a woman becomes pregnant, her breast immediately begins to change in order to nurse the baby. That change is not finished until the baby is born and the abortion stops the ... breast in the mid-change and they don't know what to do with the partly changed cells and this in turns becomes cancerous. Having an abortion also increases your risk of ... ...

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... (National Right to Life [2], 1999). The physical effects from the abortion usually appear in the future, such as tubal pregnancy and sterility. Also, I now have evidence that abortion can cause breast cancer . Although, The worst physical effect is death; it's recorded that 200 women have died from legal abortion since 1973. In conclusion, my favoritism towards anti-abortion is based on the ... ...

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... uterus a surgical abortion is performed. (All Things Considered (NPR) 1994). Although RU 486 has been used for abortion, scientists believe that the drug may be helpful in treating endometriosis, fibroids, breast cancer, and certain non-malignant brain tumors called meningomas. (Regina Sitruck-Ware 1999) The drug is also being tested for its effectiveness to treat ovarian ... cancer, brain tumors and depression. (Chris Gearon, Reuters Health) Mifepristone can be beneficial in many ways. It can aid a young girl who has become a victim of incest or rape. Children are ... ...

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... abortion is often not an option after seven weeks. (prochoice.org/Facts/Factsheets) Methotrexate has been used in the US since 1953, when the FDA to treat certain types of cancer approved it. Since that time, medical researchers have discovered other important uses for the drug. One of the uses is to end unintended pregnancies. Although the FDA did not consider ... -term effects and complications which can arise due to abortion: almost one-quarter of all women who have abortions experience complications in future pregnancies, there is a 140% increase risk of breast cancer following an ab...

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... uterus a surgical abortion is performed. (All Things Considered (NPR) 1994). Although RU 486 has been used for abortion, scientists believe that the drug may be helpful in treating endometriosis, fibroids, breast cancer, and certain non-malignant brain tumors called meningomas. (Regina Sitruck-Ware 1999) The drug is also being tested for its effectiveness to treat ovarian ... cancer, brain tumors and depression. (Chris Gearon, Reuters Health) Mifepristone can be beneficial in many ways. It can aid a young girl who has become a victim of incest or rape. Children are ... ...

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... stage of development. Abortion not only killing the child it is putting the mother at more risk than giving labor to the child. Women are risking high a chance of developing breast cancer and other related diseases. Arguments lie in the fact that the child at eight weeks cannot feel real physical pain through abortions. Imagine being suffocated at night and not being ... ...

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... potential of rupturing. Some immediate risks include infection leading t o sterility or death, excessive bleeding, high fever, a perforated uterus leading to sterility, shock and death. Abortion also increases the risk of breast cancer, tubal pregnancy, miscarriage, premature birth, and sterility. The Catholic Church teaches that all humans have a right to live, from the moment of conception until the natural time of death. According ... ...

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... deaths not officially reported as such" (Sarvis 75). Some of the leading causes of death due to abortion are not just during the procedure but also afterwards. Chances of getting breast cancer are also believed to double after each abortion an expecting mother receives. According to some mothers, the worst part of having an abortion is the emotional pain that it brings ... ...

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... kill innocent human beings, anti-abortionists believe that they also damage the mental, as well as physical condition of the mother. Since, after an abortion a mother is more susceptible to breast cancer, and to periods of depression . In the case of congenital defects, the pro-life activists argue that such indications of a disease, do not guarantee that the child will be born ... ...

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... hundred and eighty percent more for psychological.2 They are depressed and harbor thoughts of suicide and many attempt it more than twice. They double their likelihood of getting breast, cervical, ovarian, and liver cancer, add to this the deaths of the women from the abortions themselves, and you have more than 40,600 additional deaths per year.3 The misery doesn't stop there ... ...

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... abortions kill innocent human beings, anti-abortionists believe that they also damage the mental, as well as physical condition of the mother. Since, after abortion a mother is more susceptible to breast cancer, and to periods of depression. In the case of congenital defects, the pro-life activists argue that such indications of a disease, do not guarantee that the child will be born ... ...

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