Abortion and breast cancer: a forged link.

From: The Humanist | Date: March 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

A major weapon of the anti-abortion movement is its scare-mongering claim that having an abortion significantly increases a woman's risk of breast cancer--the "ABC link." This allegation is grossly deceptive and just plain false. A substantial weight of evidence counters the ABC link, and a recent international scientific consensus has rejected it.

Unfortunately, this doesn't stop anti-abortionists from presenting the ABC link as an undisputed fact, even manufacturing the lie that half of all abortion patients will go on to develop breast cancer. This is what anxious women ...

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