British Doc Changes Mind on Abortion-Breast Cancer Link
Source: Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer; June 20, 2001

London, England -- It was only last year in an August 14, 2000 issue of
The Times that Thomas Stuttaford, M.D. authored an article entitled, "Can
Abortions Be Linked to Breast Cancer_" In this article, Dr. Stuttaford
reassured British women that abortion is a safe procedure. He declared
that, "As yet there is no evidence of a causative link between abortion
and breast cancer," and he incorrectly added that "none has been claimed
by Professor (Joel) Brind."

Less than a year later, on May 17, 2001 Stuttaford authored another
article for The Times in which he revealed that he had reversed his
position on the abortion-breast cancer research. In an article entitled
"Fresh Line of Attack," he wrote that:

"Breast cancer is diagnosed in 33,000 women in the U.K. each year; of
these, an unusually high proportion had an abortion before eventually
starting a family. Such women are up to four times more likely to develop
breast cancer."

"A report by the Royal Statistical Society shows that a termination of
pregnancy interrupts the cellular changes that occur in the breast during
pregnancy. Once the woman has had children, the effect is less because
the cellular changes have been completed...."

Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, an
international women's organization, offered her comments on this turn of
events by saying that "The British scientific community has consistently
demonstrated far less bias against the abortion-breast cancer research
than has the American scientific community. The British have been far
more willing to publish solid research showing a positive association
between abortion and breast cancer. We invite the American scientific
community to set aside its political ideology in favor of women's health
by objectively evaluating and publishing the scientific research."

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women's
organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by
educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for
breast cancer.