Komen for the Cure Races as Research Shows Abortion-Breast Cancer Link

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
October 7, 2009

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- With October as breast cancer awareness month, Komen for the Cure is sponsoring races and events across the country to raise awareness of the potentially fatal disease. However, Komen isn't providing women with information on a way to help prevent breast cancer by not having an abortion.

Although abortion advocates, and Komen, dismiss the research, experts have clearly shown an abortion-breast cancer link.

The upshot? Having an abortion increases a woman's risk of having breast cancer while carrying a pregnancy to term lowers it. the rest

Stats:
-A July study done on women in Turkey who had abortions found a 66 percent increased risk of contracting breast cancer as a result.

-In 2007, a study published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons found abortion is the best predictor of whether women will contract breast cancer.

-A study by Harvard University researchers in April 2007 contained confirmation that carrying a pregnancy to term helps reduce a woman's risk.

-Also, researchers at the German Cancer Research Center found a woman's risk of contracting breast cancer is lowered and the decrease is more substantial the more pregnancies a woman has had.