| − | '''Abortion''' destroys a baby during [[pregnancy]], often causing [[fetal pain]]. Abortion has many victims: the unborn child, and the mother (& often the father) who can never forget the loss. Breast cancer rates increase by ''more than six times'' for women who have abortion.<ref>[http://www.indianjcancer.com/article.asp?issn=0019-509X;year=2013;volume=50;issue=4;spage=316;epage=321;aulast=Bhadoria AS Bhadoria, U Kapil, N Sareen, P Singh, "Reproductive factors and breast cancer: A case-control study in tertiary care hospital of North India," 50 ''Indian Journal of Cancer'' 4, 316-321 (2013)</ref> After-born children are victims too, from premature birth and birth defects due to a prior abortion on the mother. | + | '''Abortion''' destroys a baby during [[pregnancy]], often causing [[fetal pain]]. Abortion has many victims: the unborn child, and the mother (& often the father) who can never forget the loss. Breast cancer rates increase by ''more than six times'' for women who have abortion: "breast cancer [found] with 6.26 times higher risk in women having a history of abortion."<ref>[https://journals.lww.com/indianjcancer/fulltext/2013/50040/reproductive_factors_and_breast_cancer__a.13.aspx AS Bhadoria, U Kapil, N Sareen, P Singh, "Reproductive factors and breast cancer: A case-control study in tertiary care hospital of North India," 50 ''Indian Journal of Cancer'' 4, 316-321 (2013)]. "Continuing denial of the abortion-breast cancer association can only ensure that the acknowledged worldwide breast cancer epidemic will continue to worsen, costing many millions of women their lives over the next several decades." [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30831018/ Brind J, Condly SJ, Lanfranchi A, Rooney B. Induced abortion as an independent risk factor for breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies on south asian women. Issues Law Med. 2018 Spring;33(1):32-54. PMID: 30831018. Posted by the National Library of Medicine].</ref> After-born children are victims too, from premature birth and birth defects due to a prior abortion on the mother. |
| | Abortion is a betrayal of the defenseless unborn child, who fights as hard as he or she can against it. That child loves his or her mother and depends on her protection. Choosing life is the path to happiness amid hope; choosing abortion is the path to despair and loneliness. | | Abortion is a betrayal of the defenseless unborn child, who fights as hard as he or she can against it. That child loves his or her mother and depends on her protection. Choosing life is the path to happiness amid hope; choosing abortion is the path to despair and loneliness. |