Catholic Fire

By Joel Brind, Ph.D. In the three previous installments of this series, I documented the epidemiological evidence for the abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link, and the ongoing wall of denial from the official purveyors of public health information, including the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In this final installment, I’ll go over the basic, underlying biology of how and why abortion interferes with normal breast development and breast health, thus leading to a higher risk of breast cancer later in life for women who have chosen abortion. Everyone knows that a woman’s breasts, as part of the reproductive system, do not develop until puberty. But most people — even doctors — do not know that the breasts really do not develop substantially even at puberty: they essentially just grow in size. What that means is that from the time of puberty, a girl has a lot more breast tissue capable of growing — and capable of becoming cancerous — than she had before puberty. Thus does puberty ope...

By Joel Brind, Ph.D. In Part II of this series of articles on the link between abortion and breast cancer, I described how the "reporting bias" or “response bias” argument has been systematically used by the most prominent medical research authorities in the western world to deny the reality of the ABC link. It is as hugely important to critics as it is demonstrably false. The argument goes as follows: When you compare the reproductive histories of breast cancer patients to healthy women (these are called "retrospective" data-based studies), the cancer patients will be more truthful about their past abortions than healthy women. If true, this would result in breast cancer falsely appearing to be more common among post-abortive than non-post-abortive women, thus incorrectly indicating an increased risk with abortion. The argument continues: To prove whether there is a reporting bias that results in an ABC link, studies are needed which do not rely on...

By Joel Brind, Ph.D. In Part I of this four-part series of articles on the link between abortion and breast cancer (the ABC link), I described the two primary ways in which abortion increases a woman’s future risk of breast cancer: 1. Via loss of the protective effect of an otherwise full-term pregnancy, and 2. Via the increase in cancer-vulnerable tissue produced by the pregnancy hormones, making women who choose abortion more likely to get breast cancer than if they had not gotten pregnant in the first place. There is no debate about the former. Scientists have long understood that the risk of breast cancer is reduced when a woman completes a full-term pregnancy. This "protective effect of childbearing" is lost with an abortion. The latter trend, known among epidemiologists as the "independent risk" of abortion, has been the center of the controversy raging in the public square. Hence, it has been the main area in which scientific evidence has bee...