It is only reasonable to conclude, from all extant evidence, that induced abortion is indeed a risk factor for breast cancer, despite the strong and pervasive bias in the recent literature in the direction of viewing abortion as safe for women. Recent prospective studies, widely touted as refuting the abortion-breast cancer link, are found to embody many serious methodological flaws sufficient to invalidate their findings. It is deplorable that in an era in which women’ rights appear so prominently on the political and public health landscape, women should be denied the right to know about the breast cancer risk increasing effect of such a common matter of choice as induced abortion.

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Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 10 Number 4 Winter 2005