02-21-2007, 11:19 PM
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#105 (permalink)
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| Council Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Gender:  Posts: 1,264 Country:  Level up: 11%, 178 Points needed |  | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jefferson  | I'm sorry, but your links, and the studies that are contained therein, are unconvincing for the following reasons (among other reasons): 1. All case-control studies in the medical fields are notorious for containing "recall bias," whereby a healthy person is less likely to be honest about all of their actual health-related experiences/actions than an unhealthy person is since the unhealthy person has more at stake and, thus, greater concerns than the healthy person for being treated properly. In essence, there is a great possibility that there would be an under-reporting of induced abortions for women who DON'T have breast cancer...which would skew the "results" of any case-control study trying to link induced abortions and breast cancer. So, anyone who points to case-control studies to find a link between induced abortion and breast cancer would be adopting an inherently biased method to discover any correlation between the two. And, historic cohort studies, studies that don’t rely on any subject’s self-reported, health-related experiences/actions, are essentially free of bias recall-at least in the sense that one or more induced abortions HAVE occured-since those studies rely, instead, on data gathered from actual hospital/clinic visitations by a population of people. And, a major historic cohort study performed in Denmark in 1997 which analyzed the data gathered from 1.5 million Danish women hospital/clinic visits since 1973 found zero increased risk of breast cancer for women who had an induced-abortion by the 14th week of pregnancy…a gestational age with which the majority of induced abortions will-at least in the United States-occur by. 2. Since there doesn’t appear to be any link between miscarriages and breast cancer, why should there be any link between induced abortions and breast cancer? In short, the speculation that ONLY induced abortions suddenly “interrupt the estrogen surge” within pregnant women and NOT miscarriages is misleading at best and fraudulent at worst. In essence, the exact same “interrupted estrogen surge” would occur in the vast majority of pregnant women who either have miscarriages OR induced abortions. So, there doesn’t appear to be any basis for women, in general, to be at any greater risk of developing breast cancer caused by an “interrupted estrogen surge” due to induced abortions over and above the baseline risk of women developing breast cancer by an “interrupted estrogen surge” due to miscarriages. Hence, this proposed mechanism doesn't make any logical sense in light of objective data. |