LONDON, December 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – A study in Britain has found that abortion makes women nearly twice as likely to suffer from breast cancer, reports the Scotsman. Life, a UK pro-life group which commissioned the Populations and Pensions Research Institution (PAPRI) to undertake the study, said that as many as 22,000 women residents of England and Wales could have developed breast cancer because they obtained legal abortions.
PAPRI, an independent group of statisticians, looked at breast cancer and abortion rates in Britain, Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic suggests that up to 50 per cent of breast cancer cases in England and Wales over the next 26 years will be “attributable to abortion”. Patrick Carroll, researcher and author of the study, said the total number of breast cancer cases is expected to more than double from 35,110 in 1997 to 77,000 in 2023. The rise is “largely” because of abortions carried out on women who have not yet had a baby, he said
Life accuses the British government, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and breast cancer charities of refusing to acknowledge that procured abortion makes breast cancer more likely. Professor Joel Brind, of New York’s City University and director of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute in New York, spoke at the release of the study saying, “Women are at risk and they do not really know about it.”
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See the coverage in The Scotsman: https://www.thescotsman.co.uk/uk.cfm?id=127145
(with files from SPUC News Digest)