How many medical organizations acknowledge that abortion is independently linked to breast cancer and what is the evidence that supports this effect?
As of October, 2006, eight medical organizations acknowledge that abortion increases a womans risk in this way. Most of the recent epidemiological research examines only the debated risk – the effect of the independent link. Most of the recent research omits the effect of the first risk (the loss of the protective effect of childbearing) because it is already accepted as a well-established fact in the medical literature. An overwhelming majority of the epidemiological studies support an independent link. Seventy epidemiological studies dating from 1957 have been conducted, and approximately 80% report a correlation between having an abortion and increased breast cancer risk. Animal research and considerable biological evidence also support a link. Even the most zealous opponents of the abortion-cancer link agree that the biological reasons for it are physiologically correct. No scientist has ever refuted or even challenged the biological explanation. Considering the sheer extent of the
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