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. ... 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. ... An induced abortion leaves a women with more undeveloped cells in her breasts, and so, more cancer-vulnerable cells. In England, the Royal Statistical Society has stated that the number of cases of malignant breast cancer diagnosed each year will, by 2030 have risen f...

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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.. ...

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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). ... They described some of the physical effects as an increase in the over-all risk of breast cancer by 30%, an increased risk in subsequent premature births as well as a significant risk of infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease, and many others. ...

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The pro-life advocates have shown studies that women who have had abortions have a 50 percent increased risk for breast cancer. ... The high estrogen levels of early pregnancy interact with hormones of late pregnancy and produces breast milk. ... However, the pro-choice supporters have found that many medical studies have shown that a woman's reproductive history affects her risk of breast cancer. The risks associated with abortion are insignificant compared with other well-documented breast cancer risks, such as alcohol consumption and weight. Furthermore, studies on the link bet...

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Breast cancer has also been found to be a possible side-effect of abortion. ... "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 breast cancer. ... (Wilke and Whilke) Other possible side-effects found by the Elliot Institute included: cervical, ovarian, and liver cancer; handicap newborns in later pregnancies; endometritis; and lower general health. ...

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Next, a person who has one abortion in their life doubles their chance of getting breast cancer. ... Not only are her breast cancer chances increased, but also her chances of having liver, cervical, or ovarian cancer. ...

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National Religious Organizations Support Reproductive Choice [Dec 2003]) Despite the claims of some anti-choice 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. ...

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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, to about 1 in 11 for a woman in her 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 they know that th...

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By having a single abortion a woman doubles her chances of getting breast cancer, which has a higher link to those having abortions than secondhand smoke has to lung cancer. A person having this procedure also doubles their chances of cervical cancer. ...

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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. ...

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To murder, to kill, and to eliminate might all mean the same thing to some people. However, are these three things wrong to do depending on the situation and how it's done? Well, what about abortion? Is abortion considered a wrongdoing? Is abortion even considered as one of the negatives listed abov...

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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. ...

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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; it extends toward the mother's following children. ...

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The two sides of Abortion: Trough out the year abortion has been one of the most controversial and discuss issues by all the different community. Abortion has many set of definitions most of the time by religious groups, medical communities, and the public in general. This group is divided...

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Infants don't have a decision on whether they should live or be aborted in their mother's womb. If a woman chooses to prematurely end her child, the child can't do anything about his or her life being taken away from them. Their entire future is annihilated. A mother slaughters her unborn child, yet she's not charged for homicide. "There were 1.21 million abortions performed in the United States in 2008, the most recent year for which data is available. ...

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