Does abortion raise the risks for breast cancer?
According to the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, 27 out of 33 worldwide studies have implicated abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer. Dr. Joel Brind, President of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute in Poughkeepsie, New York, has conservatively estimated that an additional 5,000 to 8,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed yearly among American women because of previous abortions and that in twenty years there will be an additional 40,000 to 50,000 cases diagnosed yearly. Karen Malec, coordinator of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer reported that “The average American woman already faces a 12% risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer. Abortion elevates that risk by 30% for the general population.
