Q:
Do abortions cause negative health effects?
As another presidential election gears up, there’s going to be plenty of abortion talk again. I’ve heard abortions can cause serious long-term health effects, but no one ever seems to discuss this. What’s your take?
A: Abortion is such a lightning-rod issue in America that many docs don’t like to talk about it at all. That keeps the health consequences of abortions from getting more serious discussion. I do think that abortions can cause serious health ramifications beyond termination of pregnancy. The main one is the link between abortions and breast cancer.
As it turns out, more than 30 studies have confirmed a relationship between having an abortion and the subsequent development of breast cancer. Dr. Joel Brind, professor of biology and endocrinology at Baruch College in New York, has been crusading to get this information to the public for years, but not one magazine or newspaper has been willing to print his findings.
Surprised? You shouldn’t be.
As you would expect, the mainstream has been virtually silent on this frightening correlation, the one notable exception being a 1999 issue of The Lancet, a respected British medical journal. But let’s face it-this is hardly USA Today or Time magazine.
Even before Dr. Brind’s Lancet article, back in November 1994, a National Cancer Institute (NCI) study done at Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, Washington, disclosed some very similar-and very disturbing-things. The research showed that if an abortion was performed before age 18, the risk of breast cancer increased by 150 percent. If the woman was over 30 and had a family history of mother, sister, grandmother, or aunt with breast cancer the risk went up by 270 percent.
Again, I’m just reporting the facts on this one – and the facts seem to indicate a cancer link.
