Breast cancer-abortion link highlighted by Chinese study
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Shenyang, China, Nov 13, 2009 / 07:31 am (CNA).- Chinese researchers claim to have found a 17 percent increased breast cancer risk among women who have had induced abortions.

Peng Xing and other researchers in the Department of Oncology at the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University enrolled in their study 1,417 patients diagnosed with breast cancer and 1,587 women without a prior breast cancer.

The researchers’ findings indicated that induced abortion increased a woman’s risk of breast cancer by a “statistically significant” rate of 17 percent.

According to the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer (CABC), U.S. researchers have said that Chinese studies on a link between abortion and breast cancer exclude “report bias” because abortion isn’t stigmatized in China and Chinese women are considered reliable reporters for their abortions.

The CABC said a Turkish study published earlier this year reported a 66 percent increased breast cancer risk among women who have had abortions.

Karen Malec, CABC president, said the Chinese and Turkish studies are relevant to the debate in the U.S. over government-funded abortion.

“Government-funded abortion means more dead American women from breast cancer," she charged.

The CABC claimed that both studies show “honest research” in contrast to U.S. and Western governmental agencies or organizations that the coalition believes are “tethered to abortion ideology and politics.”

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Published by: Daniel
Gainesville/FL/USA 01/02/2010 12:21 PM EST
China's high abortion rate is due to families getting rid of female fetuses. They keep the male fetuses.
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Published by: Steve Koob
Dayton/OH/USA 11/16/2009 10:41 PM EST
I have read comments by some women to the effect that the increase in their cup size, as a result of taking birth control pills, is worth the increased risk of breast cancer. In other words, they are willing to risk no breasts tomorrow for increased breasts today. What arguements will challenge this thinking?
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Published by: Stephen
USA 11/13/2009 09:55 AM EST
These types of findings have been around for quite some time now and this Chinese research study just further proves past research that show an increased percentage of women that have abortions later getting breast cancer. Hopefully these very grave findings will find its way to the vast populations of women that are considering abortions in the future. Women need all the facts when making such a huge life altering decsion in their life.
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