... though a woman's rights are important, abortion should be outlawed in the United States because there are too many unsafe abortion clinics, and because breast cancer can be caused by aborting a pregnancy. One of the many accomplishments of America is the fact that women have rights and can depend on ... writer an article about a recent study done on this topic, stated that "women who abort their first pregnancy almost double their chance [to develop breast cancer]" (1). Unintentionally, women are putting themselves at risk for an abnormal cell growth. The same man also said that women w...

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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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... . There has been many studies done with menopause, heart disease, breast cancer, osteoporosis, and mental health. My favorite was the topic of breast cancer. I have had a couple of past relatives die of breast cancer so this was a sensitive subject to me. The likelihood that a women will die of breast cancer is decreasing steadily (Shaw, 262). There are many breast cancer activist groups that support people with this disease. This was ... very comforting to read about and changed my attitude about this killer cancer I have heard so much about. Then my gender is taken into consideration, ...

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... . There has been many studies done with menopause, heart disease, breast cancer, osteoporosis, and mental health. My favorite was the topic of breast cancer. I have had a couple of past relatives die of breast cancer so this was a sensitive subject to me. The likelihood that a women will die of breast cancer is decreasing steadily (Shaw, 262). There are many breast cancer activist groups that support people with this disease. This was ... very comforting to read about and changed my attitude about this killer cancer I have heard so much about. Then my gender is taken into consideration, ...

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... abortion is performed, the safer it is for the woman. The pro-life advocates have shown studies that women who have had abortions have a 50 percent increased risk for breast cancer. This increased revealed by the studies means that women face a higher risk of dying from the effects of an abortion than of dying in childbirth. The first trimester of ... hormones of late pregnancy and produces breast milk. If the pregnancy is terminated artificially, the growth-stimulating effects of the estrogen surge help primitive and abnormal cells to grow in possible cancers. However, the pro-choice s...

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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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... unwanted babies to couples who want children but aren't able to conceive any of their own. There are many risks to having an abortion such as pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), breast cancer, abruptio placenta, and infertility. "They contend that abortions are not safe, and point to statistics that indicate that one in 500 abortion patients will either die or be ... " (Almond 17). Pelvic inflammatory disease is an infection on the female reproductive organs. PID can also lead to infertility. Women who have abortions have a 50% increase of getting breast cancer. Also if they have a family ...

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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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... , and undiagnosed ectopic pregnancies. Next, a person who has one abortion in their life doubles their chance of getting breast cancer. The chances increase significantly with multiple abortions. Not only are her breast cancer chances increased, but also her chances of having liver, cervical, or ovarian cancer. Third, women who have abortions multiply their chances of problems with following pregnancies times 15. The major problem is ... ...

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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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... sterility are also major threats to their health. 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. Teenagers having abortions are at an even higher risk of these medical dangers. Every consequent abortion, regardless 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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... 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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... the time of the abortion or soon after. Some of the long-term effects directly attributed to abortion are reduced fertility, which can happen years later, and an increase in breast cancer risk. Uncontrollable blood clotting can occur at the time of abortion and women have died related to this (Physical Side Effects). Abortion can cause tubal pathology, which may lead to ... ...

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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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... . They argued that human life is any entity with Dna; in which are includes: ovum, spermatozoon, zygote, embryo, fetus, and newborn. It also includes: infant, child, adult, elder. Others include a breast cancer cell and a hair follicle and a skin scraping. The Pro-choice: is the composed by all those in favor of abortion. They disagree whether a zygote, embryo, or fetus is a human person ... ...

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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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