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Microbiologist: Hundreds of Studies Confirm Abortion-

Breast Cancer Link

by Steven Ertelt |LIFENEWS.COM| 9/21/10 9:00 AM

Microbiologist: Hundreds of Studies Confirm Abortion-Breast Cancer Link

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com Editor

September 21, 2010

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) A microbiologist says there are so many

published studies confirming the link between induced abortion and breast cancer that he plans topublish one every day on his blog until hes mentioned them all. It will take Dr. Gerard Nadal somany weeks to cover them all, the blogging will continue until early next year.

Nadal, who has a has a PhD in Molecular Microbiology from St Johns University in New York,has spent 16 years teaching science, most recently at Manhattan College.

He will report on one abortion-breast cancer study daily until he has exhausted all of the

abortion-breast cancer studies and he anticipates he may be reporting on these studies as late as

January or February of 2011.

"Today begins the inexorable presentation of the scientific literature on the abortion/breastcancer link," Nadal writes. "Womens lives depend on us getting the truth out to them. In short

order well generate plenty of pros armed with the simple truth of science!"

His first articlereviews a 1997 epidemiological study by Julie Palmer, Lynn Rosenberg and theircolleagues, "Induced and spontaneous abortion in relation to breast cancer," published in the

journal, Cancer Causes and Control.

Palmer and Rosenberg are not unbiased researchers, which makes their findings even more

relevant for women. Instead, they are abortion advocates who have testified as expert witnesses

on behalf of abortion businesses in lawsuits challenging the states of Alaska and Florida because

of their parental notice or consent laws.

Their study, supported by U.S. National Cancer Institute grants, examined 1,835 women ages 25-64 years with pathologically confirmed, invasive breast cancer and 4,289 women aged 25-64

admitted for nonmalignant or malignant conditions.

Nadal says the study found women who had never had children and who had one case of an

induced abortion raised their abortion breast cancer risk by 40 percent.

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"So in plain English, women who had one induced abortion, regardless of ever having had a

child, had a 40% increased risk of developing breast cancer over women the same age, with thesame parity status who never had abortions, and the authors are 95% certain that there is no other

explanation," he said.

Nadal says the study further showed that for women who had a child previously, "there is a 30%increased risk of cancer" and it "may well be explained by additional stimulation of the lobules

by estrogen in the aborted pregnancy, without the benefit of lactogen at the end."

Nadal says observers of the debate about the abortion and breast cancer link should pay attention

to another part of the study where the authors attempt to undermine their own results in an effortto downplay the abortion-breast cancer link.

The authors claim their own study suffers from a form of recall bias despite their assertionthat they were 95% certain that the results could not be due to chance. The authors believe

women with breast cancer are less likely to hide their abortion from the health questioners

compiling the data than women without breast cancer.

"They offer no proof of this phenomenon other than the same assertions made by other breast

cancer researchers with similar data. In other words, the phenomenon is a baseless assertionreverberating in the pro-abortion echo chamber," Nadal writes.

"Are we really to believe that breast cancer brings women closer to telling the truth of theirprevious abortions? Why the acuity of memory in a breast cancer patient vs. the control patients?

The abortion question was just one in a long, detailed history taken during the study," Nadal

continues. "There is no rational basis for believing that women with breast cancer are more apt torecall and report an abortion than any other women."

Despite that, the authors conclude in their study: The small elevations in risk observed in thepresent study and in previous studies are compatible with what would be expected if there were

differential underreporting by cases and controls.

Nadal says that doesnt pass the scientific straight face test.

"If I had pulled that crap during my dissertation defense, my committee would have laughed me

out of the room," he said.

However, as Nadal blogs about the abortion-breast cancer studies, he says this is a recurring

theme.

"But, as we shall see over and over on a daily basis for months to come, this is what happenswhen ideology (and not physiology) becomes the prism through which data are filtered," he says.