Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

I think I have mentioned before post abortive women I know who have had breast cancer…great article below on the link…

Politically Correcting the Abortion-Breast Cancer Link

by Gerard M. Nadal, Ph.D.

“The first casualty when war comes is truth.” 

So said Senator Hiram Johnson a century ago,
and his words remain true today in the war declared on Christian
Civilization. The pivotal battle in this war is the issue of abortion,
as abortion strikes at the very sanctity of human life: of motherhood,
fatherhood, family and the very essence of who we are, in Whose image
we are made. So desperate are abortion’s proponents to present it as an
absolute good, that clear and consistent data establishing a link
between abortion and breast cancer have been actively denied by some of
the very authors who discovered them, as they drafted a National Cancer
Institute policy paper denying the existence of fifty years of data
linking abortion and breast cancer. 

The biology behind the issue is relatively
straightforward. During puberty, girls produce 15-25 lobes in the
breast, which will produce milk after the births of their babies. Each
lobe may be thought of as a main branch of a tree. These lobes branch
into several lobules. Under the influence of the menstrual hormones
estrogen and progesterone, immature and cancer-susceptible Type-1 and
Type-2 lobules form. 

During normal pregnancy the ovaries secrete
elevated levels of estrogen and progesterone, which cause the Type-1
and Type-2 lobules to increase in number. By mid-second trimester the
breast size has doubled and rapidly matures under the influence of
human placental lactogen. By 40 weeks of pregnancy, 85% of all lobule
cells will be cancer-resistant Type-4 cells. 

After a woman is finished nursing, many Type-4
cells will revert to Type-3 cells with evidence existing that genetic
changes in these cells leave them cancer-resistant. 

The mechanism by which abortion, oral
contraceptives and combined hormone replacement therapy leaves women
susceptible to breast cancer becomes evident since the biological basis
for all three risks is the same. In terminating a pregnancy before a
first full term pregnancy, the breasts have drastically increased
Type-1 and Type-2 cells (leaving the breasts with more places for
cancers to start), but have been denied the maturational and protective
benefits of the last trimester. The birth control pill mimics this
process on a monthly basis. 

read the rest here http://www.headlinebistro.com/en/columnists/nadal/index.html