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"logic alone" suggests that the sun goes round the earth - because after all it looks as if we're standing still and the sun goes round us, doesn't it? But evidence suggests otherwise. At least, the kind of evidence that would stand up in court does. [[User: Britinme|Britinme]] 18:12 10 April 2007 (EDT)

"logic alone" suggests that the sun goes round the earth - because after all it looks as if we're standing still and the sun goes round us, doesn't it? But evidence suggests otherwise. At least, the kind of evidence that would stand up in court does. [[User: Britinme|Britinme]] 18:12 10 April 2007 (EDT)

Looking here [http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/50/5/481]: "''Although the increase in risk was relatively low,'' (emphasis added) the high incidence of both breast cancer and induced abortion suggest a substantial impact of thousands of excess cases per year currently, and a potentially much greater impact in the next century, as the first cohort of women exposed to legal induced abortion continues to age."  That's in the abstract.  I don't have access to the article.  I'm a little suspicous, however.  Most studies would give some sort of correlation, and not an "odds ratio", whatever that means. [[User:Sterile|Sterile]] 18:25, 10 April 2007 (EDT)  Whoops--that is the article... Hmmm...[[User:Sterile|Sterile]] 18:29, 10 April 2007 (EDT)  OF course, there's this: [http://ebn.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/1/1/21][[User:Sterile|Sterile]] 18:30, 10 April 2007 (EDT)

Looking here [http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/50/5/481]: "''Although the increase in risk was relatively low,'' (emphasis added) the high incidence of both breast cancer and induced abortion suggest a substantial impact of thousands of excess cases per year currently, and a potentially much greater impact in the next century, as the first cohort of women exposed to legal induced abortion continues to age."  That's in the abstract.  I don't have access to the article.  I'm a little suspicous, however.  Most studies would give some sort of correlation, and not an "odds ratio", whatever that means. [[User:Sterile|Sterile]] 18:25, 10 April 2007 (EDT)  Whoops--that is the article... Hmmm...[[User:Sterile|Sterile]] 18:29, 10 April 2007 (EDT)  OF course, there's this: [http://ebn.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/1/1/21][[User:Sterile|Sterile]] 18:30, 10 April 2007 (EDT) Judging from the NE Journal of Medicine articles at the bottom of the ref 1, it seems that this is unclear.  Hence, it would be intellectually dishonest to include it in the article. [[User:Sterile|Sterile]] 18:39, 10 April 2007 (EDT)

Abortion became legal in the UK in 1967 - I'm not sure when in the US (1972?) so women old enough to have abortions then would now be around sixty or older - a time when age-related factors increase the rate anyway. However, it's not as simple as that. For example, among other things the rate of obesity is now much higher than it was forty years ago, and that is an influencing factor.[[User: Britinme|Britinme]] 18:36 10 April 2007 (EDT)

Abortion became legal in the UK in 1967 - I'm not sure when in the US (1972?) so women old enough to have abortions then would now be around sixty or older - a time when age-related factors increase the rate anyway. However, it's not as simple as that. For example, among other things the rate of obesity is now much higher than it was forty years ago, and that is an influencing factor.[[User: Britinme|Britinme]] 18:36 10 April 2007 (EDT)