Contact: Karen Malec, Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, 847-421-4000

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Nov. 29, 2011 /Standard Newswire/ -- The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer chastised the U.K.'s abortionists at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (RCOG) today for publishing a statement in its revised guidelines entitled, "The care of women seeking induced abortion," which falsely claims "induced abortion is not associated with an increase in breast cancer risk." [1]

"The RCOG's statement is shameful, unethical, and totally self-serving. It has more to do with protecting abortionists from massive medical malpractice lawsuits and absolutely nothing to do with scientific evidence," said Karen Malec, president of the Coalition. "The RCOG's abortionists are following the tobacco industry's playbook."

The RCOG ignored advice from three internationally recognized experts (Professor Joel Brind, Angela Lanfranchi, MD, FACS and Patrick Carroll) and medical texts that say increased childbearing, especially starting before age 24, sharply reduces breast cancer risk. Obviously, the woman who has an induced abortion forfeits the protective effect of childbearing.

In its statement, the RCOG omitted 51 of 68 epidemiological studies dating from 1957 and biological and experimental evidence showing that induced abortion leaves the breasts with more places for cancers to start, due to elevated levels of pregnancy hormones that stimulate cell division and dramatic breast growth.

By contrast, women with first full term pregnancies experience a protective process (differentiation) during the last months of pregnancy that matures 85% of the breast lobules into permanently cancer-resistant lobules. [2] Every subsequent full term birth reduces risk an additional 10% and matures more lobules into cancer-resistant lobules.

The RCOG's statement conveniently excluded seven studies published since 2007 reporting an abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link:

1) Patrick Carroll's 2007 ecological study involving eight European nations, including the United Kingdom, which concluded abortion is the "best predictor" of future breast cancer trends; [3]

2) An American study, Dolle et al. 2009 (which included National Cancer Institute branch chief Louis Brinton as a co-author) whose authors reported a statistically significant 40% risk increase among women with abortions; [4]

3) An Armenian study in 2011 reporting a nearly tripled increase in risk for women with abortions; [5] and

4) Two Chinese studies [6,7]; and studies from Iran and Turkey. [8,9] More...