Mr Syvret's article is long on emotional hyperbole but very short on facts. A preliminary report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM), an organization of the National Academies of Science, USA, and published in July of this year, lists "first trimester abortion" among the risk factors for premature birth. Premature birth is associated with cerebral palsy for the child and breast cancer for the mother. At least sixty significant studies published since 1963 report an abortion-premature birth link.  As long ago as 1986 UK government scientists wrote a letter to the British journal Lancet and acknowledged that abortion is a cause of breast cancer.  They wrote, "Induced abortion before first term pregnancy increases the risk of breast cancer."  (Lancet, 2/22/86, p. 436). Also, as of 2006, eight medical organizations recognize that abortion raises a woman's risk for breast cancer, independently of the risk of delaying the birth of a first child (a secondary effect that all experts already acknowledge).  An additional medical organization, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, issued a statement in 2003 calling on doctors to inform patients about a "highly plausible" relationship between abortion and breast cancer.  General counsel for that medical group wrote an article for its journal warning doctors that three women (two Americans, one Australian) successfully sued their abortion providers for neglecting to disclose the risks of breast cancer and emotional harm, although none of the women had developed the disease.

 

While no-one would  wish cancer on anyone, surely to ignore such strong evidence and not consider this possible consequence of an abortion is to display a prejudice that is not helpful to anyone. Abortion may indeed be seen as a choice when facing an unplanned pregnancy, but it is a choice which, when taken always leads to the death of a most innocent human being and often to very serious emotional, physiological and physical damage to the mother. Sadly, when the mother makes this choice she is still a mother but she will never experience the joys and love of the child she destroyed.

 

Some links worth checking:

http://www.bcpinstitute.org/beralpaperanalysis.htm

http://www.aapsonline.org/jpands/vol8no2/malec.pdf#search='abortion%20breast%20cancer'
http://www.lifenews.com/nat2309.html

A comment by LIFE's Professor Jack Scarisbrick: "The evidence that induced abortion is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer, particularly when the pregnancy is a first one and where there is a family history of the disease, is overwhelming, ... Twenty-eight out of the 37 studies worldwide into the abortion/breast cancer link (ABC link) show that the procedure increases a woman's chance of contracting breast cancer later in life."