New research published in the British Medical Association's Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has again linked abortion with breast cancer. A team of researchers reviewed 23 existing studies on abortion and breast cancer, pooled the studies' data and concluded that a woman who has an abortion has a 30 percent increase in the risk of breast cancer.
But abortion is a sacred cow among the public health establishment. So I don't have to criticize this study again; the public health establishment will do it for me.
As reported in The Washington Post, Lynn Rosenberg, an epidemiologist at Boston University, said:
There is evidence that women grossly under-report abortion,... An [increase in risk of 30 percent] is indistinguishable from [such bias]... We are certainly not going to arrive at the truth by averaging all the studies.
According to Karin Michels, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School ,
[The studies used in the analysis] to date are inadequate to infer with confidence [a relation between abortion and breast cancer].
As reported in The Wall Street Journal, Clark Heath, a vice president at the American Cancer Society, said:
This is a fight between science people and pro-life people. It is a great mistake to start issuing warnings about risks or possible risks when the evidence is so unclear.
Thanks Lynn, Karin and Clark. I can't wait to apply your style of thinking to the epidemiology of air pollution, radon, environmental tobacco smoke, dioxin, DDT, breast implants, environmental estrogens, etc.
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