Dear Friends:

How many doctors make a point of telling pregnant women who are contemplating an abortion about the link between having an abortion and having a premature birth later in life?

After all of the hullabaloo in 2006 about the Institute of Medicine's report on the U.S. premature birth rate shooting up by 43% between 1980 and 2005, how many journalists bothered to inform women that the Institute of Medicine listed abortion as a risk factor for premature birth in the appendix of its book, Preterm Birth?

Yesterday, Canadian journalist Barbara Kay of the National Post broke the politically correct commandment, "Thou shalt not diss abortion." Be sure to thank her for her courage. You can contact her at: bkay@videotron.ca. Please inform Ms. Kay about these three breast cancer risks associated with abortion:

1. Medical texts agree that childbearing offers women significant protection from breast cancer. Research by Russo and Russo shows that 85% of the childless woman's breast lobules (which are almost entirely cancer-susceptible) become permanently cancer-resistant by the time of delivery at 40 weeks gestation. Why aren't women being told that abortion will cause them to forfeit the protective effect of a full term pregnancy?

2. Eight medical organizations agree that abortion further raises breast cancer risk by leaving the breasts with more places for cancers to start.

3. The link between abortion and premature birth provides another way that women are put at risk for breast cancer. Four studies show that women who have a premature birth before 32 weeks of pregnancy increase their breast cancer risk. No scientists have bothered to challenge these findings because the studies are about premature birth, not the nasty "A word." But the evidence provides strong biological support for risk #2 above since the hormonal changes to the breasts are the same whether the mother delivers a living or dead child.

Sincerely,
Karen Malec
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

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ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES
"The Abortion Issue We're Ignoring"
By Barbara Kay
National Post
June 10, 2009
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=c8a5da34-3460-4baa-8479-8a43deb2f51a

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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.

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