A New Video on the Abortion/Breast Cancer Link.(Video Recording Review)

The pro-life movement has a wonderful new tool for use in educating the public about the negative effects of abortion on women. It is a new video developed by two of the most well-known individuals in the field of the abortion/breast cancer link: Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, M.D., FACS, a breast surgeon, and Dr. Joel Brind, Ph.D., a professor of human biology and endocrinology.

As professionals, they have become convinced that their specialties provide ample evidence of the link between abortion and breast cancer. However, they also recognize that their professional colleagues have been unwilling to publicize this important public health issue.

They have courageously stepped forward to bring this information to the public. Now they can reach many more people through the use of their new video, if the pro-life movement steps up and makes full use of this excellent tool.

The video, entitled The ABC Link: What Every Woman Has the Right to Know, is technically excellent and is narrated by Brita Stream, Miss Oregon 2002. Her presence in the video provides a great deal of warmth and a personal touch. She represents the generation of young women rightfully concerned about the rising cost of breast cancer to American women. Miss Stream chose the abortion/breast cancer link as the project she wanted to promote during her year serving as Miss Oregon. She is a wonderful representative to include in the video.

The video gives a complete but understandable scientific explanation of the abortion/breast cancer link. Dr. Joel Brind addresses the fact that the epidemiological research has demonstrated that abortion is one of the risk factors for breast cancer. It meets the six criteria required to allow researchers to assume that abortion is a causative factor.

First, the risk factor (abortion) always occurs before the resulting cancer occurs. Second, an association has been demonstrated. Third, the association is statistically significant. Fourth, the association is a strong one for girls and young women who have not yet had any children. Fifth, it is possible to show that the more abortions a woman has, the greater her risk. Sixth, there is a biological explanation for the link.

It is this last point which helps to make this video so powerful. Dr. Angela Lanfranchi gives a clear, easy-to-understand, biological explanation using drawings of ...