Summary:
Teenagers are most vulnerable and negatively impacted by abortion
and hormonal contraception.
At a time when
their breasts are already growing, induced abortion alters their
physiology in a way that results in a much higher risk of subsequent
breast cancer.
By choosing
abortion, a woman increases her risk of breast cancer in four
ways:
-
she creates in her breasts more places for cancers to
start, which is the “independent effect”;
-
she loses the
protective effect that a full-term pregnancy would have afforded
her;
-
she increases the risk of premature delivery of future
pregnancies,
thus losing the benefit to breast cells that a full-term
pregnancy gives; and
-
she lengthens her susceptibility window.
Following abortion, many teen women take hormonal contraceptives
that in most circumstances can elevate the risk of breast cancer
even more. Contraceptives containing estrogen-progestin
drugs increase breast-cancer risks by causing breast cells to
proliferate increasing the chance of mutations leading to cancer
cells, and by acting as direct carcinogens.
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1.
Normal Breast Physiology,
The Reasons Hormonal Contraceptives and Induced Abortion Increase
Breast-Cancer Risk, The Linacre Quarterly 76 (3) (August 2009):
pp. 236-249.
