With an estimated 3 in 10 women having an elective abortion by the age of 45, this is a question many women understandably are afraid to ask. However, it’s one that they deserve to know the answer to. After all, in America today, 1 in every 8 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and rates continue to soar in countries worldwide. More women than ever need to know: what can I do to prevent breast cancer?

For a woman, few events are more life-changing, physically, emotionally and spiritually, than pregnancy and childbirth. So many researchers have looked for answers about breast cancer by examining the delicate changes in a woman’s body through pregnancy.

Although a wealth of studies have explored cancer risk factors having to do with pregnancy, including pregnancy termination, media handling of the results has been shoddy or confused at best. But today, the scientific evidence is clearer than ever, and can no longer be ignored: abortion is a real, powerful trigger for breast cancer.

It’s called the abortion breast cancer link, or ABC link.

How does the abortion-breast cancer link work? (1)

During pregnancy, many dramatic changes occur in a woman’s body, including in her breasts. An abortion doesn’t just interrupt the pregnancy, it interrupts those changes. One result of that interruption is that it leaves her with half-transformed breast tissue that is unstable and vulnerable to cancer.

Here’s how it works.

Estrogen, a female hormone, is widely recognized as a carcinogen. This is because one of the things estrogen does is stimulate cell division. But when cell division goes awry, the result is cancer.

In a healthy pregnancy, estrogen and other hormones prepare a woman’s body for breastfeeding by developing clusters of breast tissue known as “lobules.” These hormones increase the number of lobules in the breast, and then mature them from a basic, less stable state (known as “type 1” or “type 2″) to a mature one (type 3 or 4).

Mature breast tissue (type 3 and type 4) is significantly less vulnerable to the harmful, and potentially cancer-causing effects of estrogen.

But when the changes taking place in a woman’s breasts during pregnancy are interrupted for any reason – such as a late miscarriage, a very premature delivery, or an induced abortion – the breasts will only partially develop, leaving much more unstable breast tissue (type 1 or 2) than before.

The problem is, this vulnerable breast tissue will subsequently be exposed to estrogen, either naturally during a woman’s monthly cycle, or artificially if the woman is taking a hormonal contraceptive such as the Pill.

The long and short of it is, by leaving a woman with unstable type 1 or 2 breast tissue, an induced abortion leaves a woman at considerably heightened risk of breast cancer.

The studies

When it comes to causal relationships in medicine, the proof is in the pudding.

There is an abundance of scientific data showing that terminating a pregnancy is not only a real cause of cancer, but an unusually potent one.

In fact, as of 2014, at least 28 epidemiological studies worldwide show a positive ABC link, with 21 pointing to a statistically significant risk, (2)

Two out of the three major meta-analyses on the subject support the existence of the ABC link. (3) The most recent of these in 2013 demonstrated the “dose effect,” an important indicator of causal relationship.

A 2007 multi-national study concluded that abortion was the best predictor of breast cancer out of seven factors studied in eight countries (England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Finland, and Denmark). (4)…

Word is spreading

There are many signs that public awareness of the ABC link is gaining momentum.

Doctors are now showing concern for the especially dangerous situation of teenage girls, for whom studies show breast cancer risk is higher following an abortion. (17)

For example, in 2015, the American College of Pediatricians urged women to “know their ABCs” by getting informed about the link. “When one considers the normal anatomy and physiology of the breast it becomes clear that this link is causal, not merely correlational,” said ACP president Den Trumbull. (18)

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons has said that women considering an abortion have the right to know about the large volume of research supporting the ABC link. (19)

More facts about the ABC link:

abortion ≠ miscarriage

A miscarriage, or spontaneous abortion, is not the same as an induced abortion when it comes to breast cancer risk.

Because estrogen levels can be much lower than normal in a pregnancy destined for miscarriage, experts say, it can often leave breast tissue unaffected. (20)

The Pill

The role of estrogen in the ABC link has another big implication for women’s health: the link between breast cancer and hormonal contraceptives.

A host of studies support the conclusion that the estrogen consumed in the Pill and other contraceptives inflicts the same cancer-causing effect on breast tissue as an abortion.

Childbearing protects women (21)

There is one more step to understanding the real scope of the ABC link.

To meet statistical standards, scientific data on the ABC link means this: “a woman who never gets pregnant is safer from breast cancer than if she ends a pregnancy.” (22)

But what about the difference between choosing termination, and choosing to give birth?

Put this way, the ABC link is even more dramatic. Not only does childbirth mean no abortion, but it gives women access to well-known breast health benefits. Simply put, completing a pregnancy equips a woman with mature, stable breast tissue that is cancer-resistant. If the woman breastfeeds her baby, she protects herself from cancer even further. (23)

According to one 2012 study, bearing a child may even help women already diagnosed with cancer survive longer than those who avoid pregnancy. (24)

Even after an abortion, research shows that the sooner a woman has a full term pregnancy and breastfeeds, the less likely she is to develop breast cancer. (25)” https://www.lifesitenews.com/resources/abortion/the-abortion-breast-cancer-link  

Abby Johnson wrote this blog on LifeSiteNews on the link to birth control, abortion and breast cancer by sharing, “This is the best we can get?

Women of today have been convinced that our fertility is broken. And so, because it is broken, we have to fix it with a birth control pill. We think that being able to conceive is a burden or a problem. So we “fix” something that isn’t broken.

In no other case is this considered a good idea. You don’t spend time trying to fix something that is working properly. That’s counterproductive. If I took the time to take apart a car that was brand new and had no mechanical problems, that would be silly. Not only would it be a complete waste of time, but I would be setting myself up to break something that was in complete working order before I started my project.

Using Natural Family Planning has really been a no-brainer for me and my husband. As pro-life activists, we don’t want to use methods that could abort our children. And as a woman, I have no desire to use methods that could give me cancer!

This is what women have done to our bodies. By “fixing” something that isn’t broken, we have created even more problems for ourselves. We take birth control to “fix” our fully functioning fertility, and by doing that have seen a dramatic increase in breast and reproductive cancers. That doesn’t even make sense when you think about it.

Full disclosure here: I was on some sort of birth control method for 15 years. I have physically suffered because of those methods, including an extended period of infertility. And not to be a downer, but I’m literally just waiting for the day when I will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Not only do I have family history staring me in the face, but I increased my own risks by using hormonal birth control for 15 years and having two abortions.

Take a look at this article. Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, a breast surgical oncologist and co-founder of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, says “medical textbooks attest to a 30 percent increase in cancer risk.” She also talks about the well-known fact that the World Health Organization classified hormonal birth control as a Class One Carcinogen. What else is a Class One Carcinogen? Here are a few: arsenic, asbestos, ionizing radiation, formaldehyde, and tobacco. So, all of these things are admittedly as dangerous as hormonal birth control, yet birth control is widely accepted. Look at all of the “quit smoking” campaigns that are out there. Yet, birth control is just as dangerous as tobacco and the only thing you see about birth control on television are the ads encouraging women to take it. Why the discrepancy?

Simple. Because pregnancy is looked upon as a disease…something that must be “treated.” But women who can get pregnant are not broken. Their bodies are working in the way they were intended to work. So why put cancer-causing pills into your body to fix something that works?

“But Abby, I HAVE to take birth control. I have xyz problem.” You can fill in the blank; Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome, Endometriosis, irregular periods, hemorrhagic bleeding during menses.

First, you need to know that you do not have to take birth control. Birth control does not “fix” anything. It only masks an underlying problem that ultimately needs to be treated. Birth control will not treat the problem. And honestly, it’s going to compound your problem…you have PCOS? Great! Let’s take birth control and add some cancer to it.”(https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/ladies-we-deserve-better-than-hormonal-birth-control/)