Gloria Galloway
Globe And Mail
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott issued a release this week to say
he had been vindicated by the National Cancer Institute for making the
controversial claim that there is a link between induced abortion and
breast cancer.
And Mr. Vellacott may be right.
Three years ago, the Saskatchewan MP helped to bring an American
doctor and activist to Parliament Hill to tell Canadian women that
abortion increases the risk of breast cancer. It turned out that the
doctor, Angela Lanfranchi, was speaking from a defined religious point
of view that had little apparent basis in science.
And, at the time, the link between the procedure and the disease had
been discounted by the National Cancer Institute in the United States,
the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (and their
U.S. counterparts), as well as the Canadian Cancer Society and the
Canadian Breast Cancer Network.
But a study released last fall (available here but only for a fee)
by the respected Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute in Seattle
by a number of distinguished cancer experts including Louise Brinton,
the chief of the Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch of the
National Cancer Institute lists induced abortion as being
“associated with an increased risk for breast cancer.”
Background documents further suggest that it increases the risk of the
disease by 40 per cent.
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