The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link:
The Biology
Part 4 of 4
Joel Brind, Ph.D.
Note: This final installment of four articles on the abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link was written by Dr. Joel Brind, a professor of biology and endocrinology at Baruch College of the City University of New York. See Part I, Part II, and Part III.
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 had abortions.
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 open what breast cancer researchers call the "susceptibility window."
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Kermit Gosnell, the Back Alley and the Front Door
At The Wall Street Journal, James Taranto, a self-described member of the "mushy middle" on abortion, writes:
"One of the strongest practical arguments in favor of the Roe regime is that abortion has been around since time immemorial and outlawing it only drove it underground, leading women to endanger themselves by seeking out the services of back-alley quacks. The Philadelphia grand jurors recounted a powerful example from their own city's history.
"It was called the Mother's Day Massacre. A young Philadelphia doctor 'offered to perform abortions on 15 poor women who were bused to his clinic from Chicago on Mother's Day 1972, in their second trimester of pregnancy.' The women didn't know that the doctor 'planned to use an experimental device called a 'super coil' developed by a California man named Harvey Karman.'"
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