Coaliton on Abortion/Breast Cancer - "Abortion and Breast Cancer" and "Matching Trend to Trend"

Dear Friends:

The British insurance magazine, The Actuary, published two letters in its December 2007 issue concerning Patrick Carroll's research [1,2] and his November article in that publication entitled, "The Breast Cancer Epidemic." [3]

Our readers will recall that Carroll had alerted insurance professionals about his findings showing that abortion is the "best predictor" of future breast cancer trends, and fertility is a secondary predictor of those trends. He urged insurance actuaries to prepare for a more than 50% increase in breast cancer cases in England and Wales by making adjustments to insurance premiums and corporate reserves.

In his letter to The Actuary entitled, "Abortion and Breast Cancer," Patrick McKay wisely observed that, "Two-thirds of all abortions are actually funded by the taxpayer - yet it will again be the taxpayer who picks up the NHS (National Health Service) tab for treating the breast cancer 'fallout.'"

Senior British actuary Peter Tompkins has two letters published in The Actuary. Only one letter entitled, "Matching Trend to Trend," pertains to Carroll's research.

Tompkins noted that a statistical correlation between abortion and breast cancer does not necessarily mean that a cause-effect relationship exists. Yet, he concluded his letter by saying that the question of a causal relationship is irrelevant to the work of insurance actuaries. When a correlation can be established between an exposure (abortion) and a disease (breast cancer), that is sufficient reason for insurance actuaries to make upwards adjustments to their pricing structures.

Tompkins, however, has little knowledge of the biological reasons for an abortion-breast cancer link [4], and he doesn't understand that cancer has a long latency period. In other words, it can take decades after exposure to a cancer-causing agent (i.e. radiation or cigarette smoking) before a tumor is large enough to be detected.

Tompkins inaccurately argues that cancer screenings may be responsible for the increase in breast cancer diagnoses. In fact, better screening only means that for every new small tumor found, there would be one less large tumor found.

You can read McKay's and Tompkins' letters by clicking on the link provided below under our "Abortion-Breast Cancer News Headlines."

Sincerely,

Karen Malec

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES

Letters to the Editor

"Abortion and Breast Cancer," By Patrick McKay

"Matching Trend to Trend," By Peter Tompkins, senior

British actuary

The Actuary

December, 2007

http://www.the-actuary.org.uk/pdfs/07_12_letters.pdf

References:

1. Carroll, P. The breast cancer epidemic: modeling and forecasts based on abortion and other risk factors." J Am Phys Surg Vol. 12, No. 3 (Fall 2007) 72-78. Available at:

<http://www.jpands.org/vol12no3/carroll.pdf>.

2. For an explanation of Carroll's findings published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, see the 10/2/07 press release published by the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer entitled, "New Study Shows 'Best Predictor of Breast Cancer'" at: <http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/press_releases/071002/index.htm>.

3. Carroll P. The Breast Cancer Epidemic. The Actuary (November 2007) p. 30-31. Available at: <http://www.the-actuary.org.uk/pdfs/07_11_30-31.pdf>.

4. To learn more about the biological reasons for an abortion-breast cancer link, see an article by Angela Lanfranchi, MD published in the medical journal, Imago Hominis. Available at: <http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/Lanfranchi060201.pdf>.

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The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women's organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.

Tax-deductible, credit card donations can be made at http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com. Donations can be mailed to: the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, P.O. Box 957133, Hoffman Estates, IL 60195. The IRS recognizes the coalition as a 501(c)3 organization.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com

Breast Cancer Prevention Institute

http://www.BCPInstitute.org

Polycarp Research Institute

http://www.polycarp.org