I'm going to jump in here. The interpretation and reporting of studies is based on your ability to understand statistics, separate results found from what was intended to be measured and what else that may be observed. Without further testing cause and effect cannot always be determined.
Clearly, the abortion influence on breast cancer is not universally felt to be related. There are numerous medical/health studies that enthusiastically measure circumstances such as low Vitamin D levels being a risk factor in everything from Alzheimers disease to vaginal infections. However, risk and cause are not the same thing and sometimes you aren't sure if the risk factor just happens to be present and is not really the cause.
I briefly looked at some of the studies posted at the breast cancer link posted by a commenter and in the ones I read, the women are divided into two groups: those who have had abortions and those who have not. However, all the hormones that occur in a pregnancy that is an aborted one occur in women who miscarry naturally in first and second trimeter losses.
In order to prove it is really abortions that are causing the risk vs miscarriages which essentially generate the identical hormones, studies would need be cited comparing women with abortions to women with miscarriages. And the concept of risk is just that, increased risk amongst all the other variables women have or do not have control over.
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I'm going to jump in here. The interpretation and reporting of studies is based on your ability to understand statistics, separate results found from what was intended to be measured and what else that may be observed. Without further testing cause and effect cannot always be determined.
Clearly, the abortion influence on breast cancer is not universally felt to be related. There are numerous medical/health studies that enthusiastically measure circumstances such as low Vitamin D levels being a risk factor in everything from Alzheimers disease to vaginal infections. However, risk and cause are not the same thing and sometimes you aren't sure if the risk factor just happens to be present and is not really the cause.
I briefly looked at some of the studies posted at the breast cancer link posted by a commenter and in the ones I read, the women are divided into two groups: those who have had abortions and those who have not. However, all the hormones that occur in a pregnancy that is an aborted one occur in women who miscarry naturally in first and second trimeter losses.
In order to prove it is really abortions that are causing the risk vs miscarriages which essentially generate the identical hormones, studies would need be cited comparing women with abortions to women with miscarriages. And the concept of risk is just that, increased risk amongst all the other variables women have or do not have control over.
September 30, 2009 - 11:04amThis Comment
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