When Ellen Soulliere (Letters, Nov 7) says the foetus
changes its mother’s body irrevocably, “not always for the better”, she's dead right.
Because in pregnancy estrogen increases lobules in the breast, then matures
them. If pregnancy is interrupted the partially developed breasts are left with
much more unstable tissue, which will subsequently be exposed to estrogen, either
naturally during her monthly cycle or artificially if she’s taking the pill.
Meta-analyses show this means an abortion leaves a woman four times more
likely to develop breast cancer.
The ABC (Abortion Breast Cancer) link is dismissed by some as some as
anti-abortion bias or propaganda.
However, pro-choice Dr Janet Daling of the US
National Cancer Institute, who has three sisters with breast cancer and says
she’d have loved to find no such ABC link, states that “our research is rock
solid and our data is accurate. It’s not a matter of believing, it’s a matter of
what is."
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