Breast Cancer-Abortion Study Flawed

NewsMax.com's Fr. Michael Reilly details the latest wrinkle in the abortion-breast cancer debate.

While many abortion advocates are touting a recent study in the Lancet which denies the link between abortion and breast cancer, a leading expert in the field now says that the study has serious flaws, according to Austin Ruse of the Culture of Life Foundation.

Dr. Joel Brind, president and co-founder of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, charges that the Lancet study incorrectly compares rates of breast cancer among women who have had abortions with women who have never been pregnant.

Since a pregnant woman who chooses abortion is "at a higher risk of breast cancer than ... had she chosen to carry the pregnancy to term,” the study should have compared rates of breast cancer among women who have given birth to rates among women who have had abortions.

Dr. Brind added that those who oversaw the study engaged in a "highly biased selection process" that ignored 11 studies "showing valid evidence of the ABC [abortion-breast cancer] link” and included "invalid studies whose flaws had been documented in the scientific literature.”

Dr. Brind will be publishing the full results of his study on his Web site in the days to come.

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