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For ease newcomers following along , please consult the glossary of terms that I’ve written to make the terminology very understandable. Also, consult the post that explains the essential background
We continue with our treatment of this paper from Part I

The authors found a 40% increased risk in all forms of BC, as well as in triple negative BC. Based on this, there are some who say that this is proof of reporting or recall bias, as the percentages are the same across the board. There are a few responses to this argument.

First, It may well be that Oral Contraceptives (OC’s) contribute to BC by a different mechanism than does abortion. Estrogens in abortion and Oral Contraceptives (OC’s) stimulate the proliferation of breast tissue, doubling the number of immature cells that need the maturational effects of placental lactogen, which differentiates them into cancer resistant cells. However, the synthetic estrogens in OC’s are also implicated in the processes of tumor formation. That this study shows such dramatic increase in triple negative BC associated with OC use, compared to other forms of BC suggests a unique influence by the synthetic estrogens in the drug, as opposed to the natural estrogens. That isn’t to say that the natural estrogens are not also implicated, just that their effects may not be so marked as the synthetic estrogens.

Thus the mechanism by which disease is caused is not monolithic.

Next, it is a curiosity that the self-reports are only alleged to suffer from recall bias when they are about past abortions, and not OC use, or any other element of the health history. We saw a few days ago with Dr. Leslie Bernstein, 2003 NCI pro-abortion panelist, exactly where the actual bias resides when she said after the fraudulent “Fact Sheet” was issued:

“There are so many other messages we can give women about lifestyle modification and the impact of lifestyle and risk that I would never be a proponent of going around and telling them that having babies is the way to reduce your risk.”

{Editorial Note by GN: Bernstein says this in spite of all the data indicating that this is indeed the most significant means of reducing a woman’s risk.}

“I don’t want the issue relating to induced abortion to breast cancer risk to be part of the mix of the discussion of induced abortion, its legality, its continued availability. I think it should not be part of the argument.”

There are three “I’s” in there. Scientists are trained to step out of the spotlight when reporting the data and let the data speak for themselves. Here we see a scientist (speaking for the group?) who muzzled the data in order to allow her predilections take center stage. This is where the process gets corrupted. This is where the public is shielded from the truth because a self-appointed academic aristocracy decides what it is the public should and should not know about risk factors for disease, based upon a particular vision of social engineering.

Brinton and the rest of her like-minded colleagues may be sincere, but they are sincerely unethical and corrupt in publishing these data on the one hand, claiming in this paper that induced abortion is a known BC risk factor, and refusing to alter the NCI position paper from six years earlier which denies that link.

Further, Brinton, et al. returned to a 1990’s data set that they dismissed as contaminated by recall bias in 2003, and squeezed out another publication in 2009. They could have omitted the data on the ABC link in this 2009 paper, having already declared it invalid in 2003. They didn’t. It is impossible to speculate as to why they did not, as to why they listed induced abortion among the known BC risk factors. Any speculation as to motive is fruitless.

The fact remains that they have once again published a link. They have also reviewed and let stand (on January 12, 2010) their NCI position paper. Whatever their definition of women’s empowerment and how that may be negatively impacted relative to the realities of childbearing and rearing, the sight of a woman recovering from mastectomy, ravaged by radiation and chemotherapy, is hardly one that conjures an image of empowerment and hardly seems worth the trade.

The fact that Brinton, et al. don’t trust women with the information to discern that trade-off’s worth tells us everything we need to know about their brand of feminism. It is morally bankrupt, utterly untenable, and deeply hostile to women, children, and families. It is characterized by an arrogance and contempt so severe as to require the deliberate dismissal and distortion of over a half-century of scientific data regarding yet another deleterious consequence of abortion on women’s bodies, minds, and spirit.

It seems that the elitists of the feminist movement have imposed their own brand of chauvinism on their sisters, one with far deadlier and mutilatory consequences than the male chauvinism it replaced. Neither trusts women to deal with reality and organize their lives in a manner of their own choosing. Trading one set of chains for another is not liberation. The scientific data contain, both a validation of traditional moral norms and family life, as well as the way forward for any who care to stop and take an unbiased look.

In Part III, the frightening association between OC’s and triple negative BC.

This October, please consider $upporting the following who desperately need our $upport to get the truth out*:

Breast Cancer Prevention Institute

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

*I have no institutional affiliation or membership with either group. Karen Malec and BCPI have been great resources for me, utterly generous with their time and resources.