Lethal Legacy: The Link Between Abortion and Breast Cancer

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Lethal Legacy The Link Between Abortion and
Breast Cancer

• Eve Sánchez Silver
• Medical Research Analyst
• Executive Director
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Breast Cancer is very personal

• It fractures your femininity
• It shatters self-image
• It is the destroyer of self as you know
  yourself to be
• Breast Cancer is
• the destroyer of lives

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Lethal Legacy The Link Between Abortion and
Breast Cancer

• Abortions long term effects lead to a lifetime
  of regret and additional loss of life
• Women Deserve Information
• Womens Rights begin with womens health

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• The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link

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Outline

• The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link
• Breast Cancer Abortions Legacy
• Psychological Impact of Abortion Trauma

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The breast is an organ

• The mammary gland is the only organ that is not
  fully developed at birth
• Until there is a full term pregnancy, the
  breast remains immature

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The breast develops in stages

• Immature in Stage 1
• From birth
• through puberty
• until pregnancy
• Mature in Stage 2
• The breast is mature only after a full term
  pregnancy

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How does breast differentiation occur?

• Mammary Lobules
• Type 1
• Pre-puberty few type 1 lobules exist
• Type 2
• At puberty increased estrogen causes growth of
  lobules that become type 2 lobules
• As a woman gets older increased estrogen causes
  further growth of lobules type 1 and 2 lobules

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How does breast differentiation occur? (contd)

• PREGNANCY after 32 weeks
• Type 3
• The last eight weeks of pregnancy TURN OFF the
  growth and cancer forming potentials of type 1
  and 2 lobules
• Type 4
• Safe, non-cancerous Milk producing lobules form

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Lobule differentiation

• Breast size increases by the aggregate number of
  Type 1 lobules, over time
• The sooner a womans breast lobules convert from
  cancer prone Type 1 and 2 lobules to cancer
  protected Type 3 and 4 lobules, the lower her
  risk of breast cancer
• Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, M.D., F.A.C.S.
  Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery,Robert
  Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ
  www.bcpinstitute.org

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Effect of full term pregnancy on risk

• A full term pregnancy dramatically reduces
  lifetime breast cancer risk by converting type 1
  and type 2 lobules to type 3 and 4
• The FIRST full term pregnancy has the greatest
  risk-reducing effect since more type 1 and 2
  lobules are available for conversion entering
  this first pregnancy than just before subsequent
  pregnancies

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Effect of full term pregnancy on risk (contd)

• Subsequent pregnancies further reduce lifetime
  risk
• Reducing the time interval from first
  menstruation until the first full term pregnancy
  also serves to limit overall lifetime risk

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Epidemiological Studies

• So many studies since 1957
• 33 studies worldwide have shown a 95 confidence
  interval for the effect of induced abortion on
  the entire population studied
• (i.e. scientific evidence is 95 reliably sure)
• Women who had at least one abortion were
• 50 more likely to develop breast cancer
• 27 of the studies showed definite increased risk
• 17 of these studies were statistically
  significant (Joel Brind, Ph.D Professor of Human
  Biology and Endocrinology Baruch College, City
  University of New York)

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International Studies show a 95 confidence
interval
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Premature Birth Risks

• 59 out of 59 studies show even ONE ABORTION
  significantly increases Risk of Premature Birth
• Premature birth increases babys risks of
• Cerebral Palsy
• Hyaline Membrane (lung) Disease
• Poland and Ireland - countries which prohibit
  abortion- have 50 lower rates of premature birth
  and breast cancer than US

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Breast Cancer Abortions Legacy
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Breast Cancer Worldwide

• Breast cancer rates are increasing dramatically
  worldwide while other cancer rates are NOT
• What about abortion rates?

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Patrick Carroll

• British researcher, director of the Pensions and
  Population Research Institute, London
• Presented his findings at the Joint Statistical
  Meetings at the Minneapolis Convention Center
  the largest gathering of statisticians in North
  America
• Insurance Actuaries determining trends

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Carrolls report

• The first trend is that upper-class women are the
  most likely to develop breast cancer and die of
  the disease
• Abortion before a first birth and delayed first
  birth among upper class women provide the best
  explanations for this trend, according to Carroll
  

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Carroll says

• The second trend involves regional breast cancer
  rates of the British Isles. Breast cancer rates
  are greatest in the southeast (116 per 100,000)
  where abortion rates are higher than in other
  regions, whereas
• A third trend finds an increase in breast cancer
  between 1971 and 2002. During those years,
  incidence of the disease rose 70 percent in the
  UK

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Follow the social class breast cancer mortality
rates of England and Wales
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Follow the trends
Carroll's research adds to a body of evidence
showing women who have had one or more abortions
especially one prior to birthing their first
child are more susceptible to breast
cancer. Karen Malec, Abortion-Breast Cancer
Coalition http//www.abortionbreastcancer.com
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Pharmaceutical Legacies
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Pharmaceutical Legacies

• Estrogen is a recognized carcinogen
• its carcinogenic effect is measured in parts
  per trillion
• The Pill (which contains estrogen) causes breast
  cancer (as listed in textbooks)

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Latest report from WHO

• The World Health Organization latest report
  states that estrogen is carcinogenic to women
  (August 2005)
• Concerns develop over contraceptive products oral
  contraceptives (like the Pill) and HRTs (Hormone
  Replacement Therapy)

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Estrogen

• Women start producing substantial estrogen at
  puberty
• Estrogen causes breast cancer in type 1 and type
  2 lobules

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Estradiol levels
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Estrogen level during 28 weeks of pregnancy

Source Kunz and Kunz
Early Miscarriage
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A-BC pathology
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A-BC pathology

• Women start producing substantial estrogen at
  puberty
• Estrogen causes breast cancer in type 1 and type
  2 lobules

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A-BC pathology (2)

• The longer women with type 1 and 2 lobules are
  exposed to their own estrogens, the greater their
  risk of developing breast cancer
• Once type 1 and 2 lobules are converted into type
  3 and 4 lobules, they become immune to the cancer
• Abortion interrupts the conversion of type 1 and
  2 lobules into protective type 3 and 4 lobules

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A-BC pathology (3)

• Naturally aborted pregnancies (miscarriage) do
  not appreciably increase cancer risk due to low
  estrogen levels
• This pathway has been confirmed experimentally
  Jose and Irma Russo (Fox Chase Cancer Center)

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A-BC pathology (3)
Abortion Rate
Relative Risk
DENMARK 1868-1958 15 year running averages
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Susceptibility of the Mammary Gland to
Carcinogenesis II. Pregnancy Interruption as a
risk factor in Tumor IncidenceJose Russo, MD,
Irma H. Russo, MD

• Russo and Russo, FCCC

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Mitigating the A-BC pathway

• Two factors that control lifetime breast cancer
  risk
• Limit accelerated risk increases by avoiding
  forced aborted pregnancies
• Reduce lifetime risk by having a full-term
  pregnancy
• Lifetime risk can be further limited by having a
  first full term pregnancy as soon as possible
  after menarche

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• The BRCA1
• Breast Cancer Gene

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BRCA1 BRCA2 gene pathology

• BRCA12 carriers have an increased lifetime risk
  of developing
• a second primary breast cancer in the same breast
  
• breast cancer in the other breast

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Mitigating the BRCA1 pathway

• Dr. Mary Claire King BRCA1 gene
• Women with the BRCA1 gene have a higher incidence
  of breast cancer when compared to women without
  the gene

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Mitigating the BRCA1 pathway

• Dr. Mary Claire King BRCA1 gene
• Women who have the BRCA1 breast cancer gene
• Are as protected by pregnancy as women who do not
  have the BRCA1 gene
• IF women with BRCA1 have a
• first full term pregnancy
• followed by lactation ( breast feeding)
• They can then attain the maximum protection
  achievable same as women without the BRCA1gene

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Who is keeping a lid on the facts?

• Reputable researchers fear for their reputations
  and their jobs if they speak up

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Pink Money Organizations

• PINK MONEY ORGANIZATIONS are often the cancer
  research funding organizations who have a
  financial agenda to fulfill and a social agenda
  to carry out
• WOMENs RIGHTS
• are more important than
• WOMENs HEALTH

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Pink Money Organizations

• PINK MONEY ORGANIZATIONS
• Remain silent about the confirmed link between
  abortion and breast cancer
• May stand to gain financially by maintaining an
  information black-out on confirmed
  abortion-breast cancer link facts
• DENY confirmed A-BC Link facts because it is
  politically expedient to do so in order to
  support their funding organizations

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United StatesPink Money Organizations

• The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
• The American Cancer Society
• The National Cancer Institute
• And the US Media

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Journal of Ethics and Medics

• Bio-ethics journal revealed flawed study
• Dr. Angela Lanfranchis articles discredited The
  National Cancer Institutes favorite Beral Study
• Dr. Edward Furton, Editor of JEM slammed
  scientists for shoddy research in defending the
  notion that abortion is safe
• See Dr. Joel Brinds article regarding sham
  research (www.bcpinstitute.org)

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National Cancer Institute

• Claim "Although it has been the subject of
  extensive research there is no convincing
  evidence of a direct relationship between breast
  cancer and either induced or spontaneous
  abortion".

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Melbye Misclassification

• 60,000 women who had abortions misclassified in
  the study as not having had an induced abortion

Dr. Joel Brind, Breast Cancer Prevention Institute
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The Melbye Study

• I suggested in a long letter to the Wall Street
  Journal in 1997 that "the NCI (that is, the US
  National Cancer Institute and its journal would
  do better to protect American women" and by
  extension, women in the rest of the world as
  well) "by warning them about abortion which
  most evidence indicates is the single most
  avoidable risk factor for breast cancer, rather
  than protecting the abortion industry by invoking
  flawed analyses from Sweden, the Netherlands and
  Denmark."

Dr. Joel Brind, Breast Cancer Prevention Institute
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Dirty white lab coats

• Researchers with vested interests put out
  unreliable or false data
• Publishers publish it
• The media proclaims it

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Some will not be silent

• Dr. Janet Dalings Study of American Women 
• "Risk of Breast Cancer Among Young Women
  Relationship to Induced Abortion
• (11/ 2/ issue 1994 Journal of the National
  Cancer Institute,Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center,
  Seattle, WA.)
• 1,806 women in study
• 845 women with breast cancer
• 961 control group (no b/c)
• Each Interview was 1on 1 and 2hours long

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Dalings findingsThe Abortion-Breast Cancer Link

• For abortion after age 30
• BC Risk Increase 110 percent
• First abortion before 18
• BC Risk Increase 150 percent
• First abortion after age 30 with a
• Family History of BC(mother, sister, aunt)
• BC Risk Increase 270 percent
• 12 women developed breast cancer during the
  study

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Dalings findingsThe Abortion-Breast Cancer Link

• In this study
• Every woman who had
• a first degree family member with breast cancer
  and
• an abortion before the age of 18
• Developed breast cancer before the age of 45

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Abortions effect

• Aborted women clinically experience
• Shame
• Auditory hallucinations
• Issues of intimacy
• Sexual dysfunction
• Psychologically numb
• Increased hostility
• source Silent No More - Canada

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Recent studies series from Finland and California

• "These studies represent the first time that the
  measurements of deaths associated with abortion
  and childbirth have been taken using a consistent
  and uniform standard. (-Reardon The Journal of
  Contemporary Health Law Policy 2004
  20(2)279-327)

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Suicidal ideation

• Suicidal ideation in aborted women is 2- 5
  xs higher than other women
• source Silent No More - Canada
• Finlands statistics are 6xs higher
• The following shows Findlands mortality rates
  within a single year immediately after abortion

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Finish Study of all women aged 15-49 (1987-94)
Women who died within 12 months of delivering,
aborting or miscarrying
Gisler, M. et, al, Acta Obstetrica et
Gynecoloigica Scandinavica 76651-657 1997
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Finish Study of all women aged 15-49 (1987-94)
Women who died within 12 months of delivering,
aborting or miscarrying (contd)
Gisler, M. et, al, Acta Obstetrica et
Gynecoloigica Scandinavica 76651-657 1997
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Finish Study of all women aged 15-49 (1987-94)
Women who died within 12 months of delivering,
aborting or miscarrying (contd)
Gisler, M. et, al, Acta Obstetrica et
Gynecoloigica Scandinavica 76651-657 1997
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Corrected death rates

• 94 percent of maternal deaths associated with
  abortion are not identifiable from death
  certificates alone
• death rate associated with abortion is actually
  three times higher than that of childbirth

National Research and Development Center for
Welfare and Health -Finland
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American women

• 2002 study of low income Californian women over 8
  year period, women who aborted compared to women
  who delivered full term are more likely to die
  from
• Suicide 184
• Accidents 82
• Circulatory disease 187
• Cerebrovascular disease 446 (stroke)
• Natural causes 44

Southern Medical Journal 2002 95 (8)834-841
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• Australia
• 90,000 abortions per year
• Repeat abortion rates 39
• Under 20 repeat rate is 1 in 5
• Under 25 repeat rate is 2 in 5
• Under 30 repeat rate is over 50
• 
  
  

Pregnancy Outcome in South Australia 2002
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Aboriginal women Australia

• Abortion is genocide.
• Indigenous women of Australia
• Abortion incidence rising among Indigenous women
  who face breast cancer risks as well
• 3rd highest cause of cancer deaths among
  Indigenous women
• Present with slightly larger tumors and more
  advanced breast cancer histology
• (2003 Blackwell Science Ltd. Malden, MA, USA)

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Festival of LightAdelaide, Australia (students)
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International Abortion Facts

• Abortions Worldwide
• Number of abortions per year Approximately 46
  Million
• Number of abortions per day Approximately
  126,000
• Where abortions occur
• 78 of all abortions are obtained in developing
  countries and 22 occur in developed countries

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Profound International Results

• Abortion averages worldwide
• The lifetime average is about 1 abortion
  per woman in the world
• source Center for Bioethical Reform

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Access to professional help

• Health professionals are not being trained to
• Identify
• treat
• or prevent abortion trauma
• The vast majority of those traumatized have no
  access to the professional help they require

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Legacy of Late Reproduction

• The scramble to have kids just before the clock
  runs out
• Fertility specialists
• Invasive procedures
• In vitro fertilization

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Everyone gets into the act

• Donated sperm
• Ovum donors
• Frozen sperm
• Surrogate mothers
• Turkey-baster dads

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Litigation and The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link
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Litigation and The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link

• Medical Malpractice Risk for doctors
• Two non-disclosure A-BC link info cases were
  prosecuted in the US and won
• One was a precedent setting Judgment of Liability
• Two cases were won in Australia
• Pre-term litigation will increase

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Sign popping up in the USA

• HAD AN ABORTION?
• SEE A LAWYER

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Watch for international class action suits

• United States
• Class action suits are being drafted
• Based on the precedent setting Judgment of
  Liability (Portland, Oregon)
• These cases will ask
• Who knew the A-BC facts and said nothing?
• Who knew the A-BC facts and did nothing?
• Watch for class action suits coming to your town

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Summary

• There is important information about the lifetime
  abortion-breast cancer risks to women
• Pink Money Organizations are claiming concern for
  womens health but silent about significant
  studies and data on the abortion-breast cancer
  link
• The facts are clear and rock-solid
• The general international public must be informed
  and pro-active for its own well-being

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Speak Up about the A-BC Link

• Send e-mail alerts
• WRITE LETTERS
• Phone radio stations
• Tell your friends, colleagues and neighbors
• Keep informed, stay in touch

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Organizations working to OUT the TRUTH

• The Abortion-Breast Cancer Coalition
• http//www.abortionbreastcancer.com/
• The Breast Cancer Prevention Institute
• http//www.bcpinstitute.org/
• CLResearch
• http//www.clresearch.org/
• http//www.pinkmoney.org/

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Lethal Legacy The Link Between Abortion and
Breast Cancer
Eve Sánchez Silver Medical Research
Analyst Executive Director CLResearch
LLC silver_at_clresearch.org
www.clresearch.org

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  0509.pdf

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Many thanks to
Karen Malec President The Abortion Breast Cancer
Coalition www.abortionbreastcancer.com Joel
Brind, Ph.D. Professor of Human Biology and
Endocrinology Baruch College, City University of
New York www.bcpinstitute.org Angela
Lanfranchi, M.D., F.A.C.S. Clinical Assistant
Professor of Surgery Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School, Piscataway, NJ www.bcpinstitute.org D.
A. Forest President RTTC
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search/DeathsAssocWithAbortionJCHLP.pdf See
related story Death Rate of Abortion Three Times
Higher than Childbirth 13-year Population Study
in Published in Top OB/Gyn Journal?
http//www.afterabortion.info/news/GisslerAJOG.htm
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