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on April 17, 2015 in World News

Pediatricians Warn of Abortion-Breast Cancer Link

Pediatricians Warn of Abortion-Breast Cancer Link In a press release last week, the American College of Pediatricians urged health care providers to educate young women about the strong link between abortion and breast cancer. In 2013, Dr. Rebecca Johnson, a cancer specialist at Seattle Children’s Hospital, released results of a study that demonstrated that the number of advanced breast cancer cases has increased among younger women, aged 25-39 years. After an analysis of 34 years worth of data from many countries, Johnson and her colleagues found that induced abortion was likely a causal–not correlational–risk factor for the development of breast… View Article

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