LifeNews.com: Scientists, Govt Ignore Abortion-Breast Cancer Link Leading Surgeon Says

Steven Ertelt of LifeNew.com carries this story today.

A leading breast cancer surgeon has published an article in a top medical journal accusing scientists and the federal government of ignoring the well-established link between abortion and breast cancer. Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, a New Jersey based breast cancer expert, says politics is corrupting science.

She presents her evidence in a new article in the March 2008 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.

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She said both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) have "violated their mission statements" by refusing to acknowledge the abortion-breast cancer link.

Lanfranchi says the NCI "changes its website information frequently -- it was revised more than 20 times in the first 7 months of 2007." That hardly gives patients confidence in the information the government agency produces.

She pointed to "blatantly incorrect information" on the National Cancer Institute web site saying that estrogen levels decrease during pregnancy.

The surgeon says the opposite is true, which explains why early first full term pregnancy reduces breast cancer risk and premature birth before 32 weeks and abortion raise risk.

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Read the full story here.