"Tuskegee was really the experiment that set American medicine on its ear. I think Americans had this belief that they couldn't or wouldn't do the kind of evil things that the Germans did.  Tuskegee was a gigantic wake-up call."   [Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., who called the Tuskegee scandal, "America's Nuremberg," author of When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust, Humana Press, 1992]

"If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one."    [Dr. W.C. Heuper, National Cancer Institute to the New York Times, April 14, 1954]


The abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link has been studied since 1957. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and private cancer organizations concealed the existence of the ongoing ABC research from American women and their physicians for many decades.  Now they expect women to believe them when they deny a link between abortion and breast cancer.

Whenever the ABC link gained limited public attention or scientists reported a significant positive relationship between abortion and cancer, feverish efforts were made to debunk it in order to extinguish the ABC link from the minds of women.

The U.S. government and the cancer fundraising industry have embarked on a disinformation campaign in an effort to falsely persuade women that abortion is safe.  Today, their web pages are chock full of omissions and misinformation about the research, if it is mentioned at all.  Not one organization provides a comprehensive listing of the ABC research.

The history of the ABC research bears some resemblance to the Tuskegee Syphilis Scandal.  Like the ABC link, this scandal involved grossly unethical practices by government funded scientists working under the umbrella of the U.S. Public Health Services.  In each case, scientists had it within their power to either prevent disease or to heal, but deliberately chose not to do so.  The victims of their scientific misconduct were denied their legal right to informed consent.   

Numerous parallels can be observed between the histories of the tobacco-cancer research and the ABC research, as well. In both cases, research implicated a politically protected industry's product or service with cancer. As a political entity, which relies on funding from Congress, the NCI is not immune to the influence of politicians who receive special interest funding from Big Tobacco and Big Abortion for their campaigns.  The agency has no choice but to consider the wider political ramifications of the findings of scientists.

The 46-year history of the ABC research contains numerous examples of flagrant scientific misconduct and bias.  The NCI itself has a well-documented history of lying about the ABC research. In recent years, the ABC link has received some public attention. Consequently, we can expect dishonest scientists to step up their efforts to design more phony studies which violate basic rules of science.

Scientists can easily confuse the public with erroneous epidemiological research, which merely explores a statistical relationship between abortion and breast cancer.  Scientists also require other evidence before determining if a cause and effect relationship exists. 

Scientists have a plausible biological explanation for the link.  The explanation hasn't been challenged and has never been disproved because too much of it is already accepted in the medical community.  It is consistent with what scientists already know about human biology, the development of cancer and the risks of being overexposed to estrogen, a secondary carcinogen and known tumor promoter.