Thread: Abortion More Dangerous Than Childbirth
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Old 02-22-2007, 07:41 AM   #118 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Jefferson View Post
I notice that you keep spinning out of control, trying to explain why all these studies - linking abortion to breast cancer - just CANNOT BE RIGHT! THEY CAN'T BE!
The problem with "all of these studies", at least a good number of them, is that they rely heavily on people telling the truth.

Simply put, a case-control study is inherently biased.

And furthermore, because of this fact, some conclusion that women are 30% more at risk for developing breast cancer for WHATEVER reason is bound to be a smaller change from the norm than the error in measurement of the type of study used.

In short, this 30% greater at risk concluson is a useless conclusion because its the equivalent of saying that women are 30% at greater risk for developing breast cancer after an induced abortion...+/- 50% based on the measurement error of the study.

Find a study with less inherent measurement error to find a correlation between the two to demonstrate a link between induced abortion and breast cancer...and then you might have something realistic to talk about.