Our purpose is to educate women and to save lives. We wish to emphasize that not all women who have breast cancer have had abortions, and not all women who have had abortions will get breast cancer.
Induced abortion is only one of the risk factors for breast cancer.
However, it is the most avoidable risk factor for this disease. Obviously, having an abortion causes a woman to forego the protective effect that a full-term pregnancy would have afforded her. Dr. Joel Brind, President of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, explains that most known risk factors for breast cancer involve estrogen overexposure. Women who have more children and who nurse them, on the other hand, experience a reduction in the number of menstrual cycles and reduce their risk of breast cancer by doing so. Thirteen out of 15 of these studies are American studies which show a link.