I’m sure that everyone hates being lied to, as I do, but it’s especially disturbing when women are dying because of the cover-up pertaining to the abortion/breast cancer association. However, the tide is turning. U.S. National Cancer Institute researcher Dr. Louise Brinton, who previously stated that “abortion is not associated with increased breast cancer risk,” has reversed her position and now admits that abortion and oral contraceptives raise breast cancer risks. An April 2009 study by Jessica Dolle of the Fred Hutchinson Research Center, found abortion raises breast cancer risk by 40%. Data has been confirmed by 75% of the worlds’ scientific literature and shows that abortion is a causal factor in the development of breast cancer in the same way that cigarette smoking is a causal factor for lung cancer. The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons published a study in October 2007 that showed abortion is the ‘best predictor of breast cancer.’

Over the past 35 years, breast cancer has increased by 40%. In 1975,1 in 12 women would develop breast cancer. In 2004, the risk has increased to 1 in 7 women. Breast cancer was once rare among Alaska Native women, but over the past 32 years, Alaska Native women have seen breast cancer rates skyrocket from 40 cases in 100,000 women from 1969-1973, to 132 cases per 100,000 women from 1999-2004. The cases have over tripled! Is anyone connecting the dots between abortion and breast cancer here?

There are three major influential factors pertaining to breast cancer: faulty genetic inheritance or damage to DNA, the amount of exposure to estrogen, and breast lobule maturation. Only 15% of women with breast cancer have a family history of the disease. However, medical evidence shows that ductal breast cancers account for over 80% of all human breast cancers. At the end of puberty, over 70% of the breast tissue consists of Type 1 lobules. These are the units of breast tissue consisting of milk glands and a duct, which are immature, and susceptible to cancer. This is why there is a 50% increased risk of breast cancer to those women who have an abortion before their first live birth. The good news is, after a woman undergoes her first full term pregnancy, the majority of Type 1 lobules in her breast, which are the place where ductal cancers begin, transform into Type 3 lobules, which are cancer resistant. Even so, all aborted women are still at increased risk of breast cancer.

Estrogen has been listed as a carcinogen (cancer causing agent) by the National Cancer Institute since 2001. It was found that estrogen can initiate cancer cells to form. Basically, women whose bodies experience more exposure to estrogens, whether natural or synthetic (such as birth control pills) have a higher risk of breast cancer than women who experience less exposure. Progestins seem to increase the risk of breast cancer at least as much, and maybe even more than estrogens. Experiments done by the World Health Organization on women around the world showed that women who had been injected with long-lasting progestin contraceptives such as Depo-Provera for at least 2 years before the age of 25, has doubled their risk for developing breast cancer. Science also shows that heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, and breast cancer are increased by hormonal treatments such as HRP. According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer rates decreased by 10% between 2000-2004 because of reductions in the use of HRP.

Dr. Angela LanFranchi, a New Jersey breast surgeon, and the newly elected President for the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, declared under oath that members of the nations’ medical elite are aware that abortion causes breast cancer. They refuse to admit this fact publicly because they believe it’s “too political.” Others have remained evasive, and some are openly hostile.

Question: Why did the Susan G. Komen Foundation, an organization that raises money for breast cancer research, contribute $700,000 to Planned Parenthood? Does the Komen Foundation Board of Directors not understand that Planned Parenthood, Inc. is the largest abortion provider in this nation and throughout the world?! Either the Komen Foundation is completely ignorant, or they are artfully deceitful. They are contributing to the disease they proclaim to try to cure.

You can reduce your risks for developing breast cancer ; avoid putting artificial chemicals into your body (such as birth control pills) and don’t have abortions.

Karen L. Lewis, Education Director