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American Life League: Abortion-Breast Cancer Connection - Recognized By Law and Medicine

WASHINGTON, PRNewswire/ - Britain's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (RCOG) has issued its new "Evidence-based Guidelines No. 7: The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion."

The 1996 "Comprehensive review and meta-analysis," by Dr. Joel Brind and colleagues at the Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, found overwhelming evidence of an abortion-breast cancer connection and was found to be credible by the RCOG.

The RCOG report says of the Brind review, "The conflicting review by Brind has examined the same studies and concluded that induced abortion is a significant, independent risk factor for breast cancer. The assessor concluded that both were carefully conducted reviews and that the Brind paper had no major methodological shortcomings and could not be disregarded."

Brind, director of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute (Poughkeepsie, NY) and a member of the American Bioethics Advisory Commission (a division of American Life League), said he is encouraged that RCOG has clearly acknowledged "the existence of valid evidence of the abortion-breast cancer connection."

"The RCOG represents the abortion practitioners themselves," said Brind. This is the first time that any such group has clearly acknowledged the evidence of the abortion-breast cancer connection."

In a related matter, silence over the evidence of an abortion-breast cancer connection was broken recently in a landmark lawsuit filed in Fargo, North Dakota. The plaintiff in the case, Amy Jo Mattson, an employee of North Dakota Life League (an associate of ALL), alleges that the Red River Women's Clinic broke North Dakota laws against false advertising when it gave Mattson a deceptive brochure about abortion health risks.

In reference to claims that abortion increases a woman's chance of developing breast cancer, the brochure reads, "None of these claims are supported by medical research or established medical organizations."

A circuit judge in Cass County District Court denied the abortion clinic's motion to dismiss the lawsuit in January. Mattson's attorney, John Kindley, is arguing that medical research shows that having an induced abortion increases the average woman's risk of breast cancer by about half. Kindley's law review article on the scientific evidence connecting induced abortion with increased breast cancer risk can be found online at http://www.johnkindley.com

Judie Brown is president of American Life League, the nation's largest pro-life educational organization with more than 367,000 supporting families. ALL / P.O. Box 1350 / Stafford, VA 22555 / 540-659-4171 / http://www.all.org