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Analysis of Studies Suggests Abortion Can Raise Breast Cancer Risk
A controversial [[Harvard abortion study]] concluded that childbearing before the age of 35 reduces a woman's breast cancer risk. <ref>"... childbearing before the age of 35 reduces a woman's breast cancer risk and breast-feeding also helps, said the new study's lead author Karin Michels of Harvard Medical School" [http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Abortion-Cancer.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin] </ref>
A controversial [[Harvard abortion study]] concluded that childbearing before the age of 35 reduces a woman's breast cancer risk. <ref>"... childbearing before the age of 35 reduces a woman's breast cancer risk and breast-feeding also helps, said the new study's lead author Karin Michels of Harvard Medical School" [http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Abortion-Cancer.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin] </ref>
*Animal studies have suggested that [[estrogen]] secreted early in pregnancy stimulates the multiplication of immature cells in the breast and that these cells do not mature fully until the end of pregnancy. Theoretically, then, when a woman's pregnancy is cut short through induced abortion, a lot of immature cells remain in the breast that are vulnerable to cancer-causing influences. [http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/FivePrecepts/AbortionBreastCancer.html]
==Risk factors==
==Risk factors==
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*[http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/FivePrecepts/AbortionBreastCancer.html Analysis of Studies Suggests Abortion Can Raise Breast Cancer Risk] - New York Times - October 12, 1996