Regarding the following:

Will insurance companies now increase the premiums for women who have had an abortion? They ask other questions pertaining to one's health. Personally, I think they should, as it's only fair.

Why should other womren's premiums go up just because some women think their child is an inconvenience and have him/her killed, thus increasing their risk for breast cancer and all medical expenses that ensue. After all, Insurance compainies have to recoup their losses and it will be at the expense of ALL women, even those who are pro-life.

Frank Joseph MD

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Actuary Magazine: Abortion-Breast Cancer Link Will Hurt Insurance Industry

London, England (LifeNews.com) -- A British actuary magazine has published an article saying the link between abortion and breast cancer will cause an epidemic there.

The Actuary, a professional magazine, says England and Wales will likely see a rise in the number of women afflicted with the deadly disease. The article discusses the impact the link will have for the life and health insurance and health care industries through 2029.

The article is based on the findings of Patrick Carroll, a statistician and actuary, who recently released a study showing that abortions is the best factor for predicting the incidence of breast cancer among women. Carroll published his forecasts of breast cancer rates last month in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.

He predicted a sizable increase in the number of breast cancer cases and expects an overall increase of 50.9% in the cancer rate in England and Wales by 2029.

Actuary's article notes that those involved in planning treatment facilities and calculating insurance premiums and reserves should pay attention to this phenomenon. The abortion-breast cancer link could result in more insurance claims and litigation, the magazine noted.

Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, told LifeNews.com that the abortion-breast cancer link is an "epidemic" and it "will be costly for the insurance industry and consumers."

Malec also says "cancer patients will suffer because of the cancer fundraising industry's misconduct." "Breast cancer fundraising is likely to be very profitable for the American Cancer Society, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and others that continue to knowingly mislead women by denying the abortion-breast cancer link," she said. She blames the groups for misleading women and telling them there is no link between abortion and breast cancer or denying the protective effect a first full-term pregnancy can have.

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Breast Cancer Epidemic Linked to Abortion

A new UK study says that induced abortion is the “best predictor” of breast cancer, and calls the current widespread incidence of breast cancer “epidemic.” The study appears in the Fall edition of The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, and is authored by Patrick Carroll, M.A., who is the Director of Research for the Pension and Population Research Institute in London.

The study is based on data collected in eight European countries: England and Wales; Scotland; Northern Ireland; the Irish Republic, Sweden; the Czech Republic; Finland; and Denmark. The national cancer registration data in each of these eight countries was correlated with comprehensive abortion data on file. The study made special note of the fact that such detailed, reliable data is not available in the United States, asserting that “official abortion statistics in the United States and France are known to understate the numbers of legal induced abortions.”

The forecasts for the increase in breast cancer in the eight countries studied are huge and they are dire. In England and Wales, for instance, the cases are expected to explode from the 39,229 cases reported in 2004 to over 65,000 in 2025, an increase of more than 66 percent. Similar trends are forecast in the other seven countries.

The study lists seven known factors which either raise the risk of breast cancer or lower it.

Factors that raise the risk:

* Induced abortion. Induced abortion is given as the number one risk-raising factor, especially when a woman has never given birth to a child because, the researchers said, such an abortion “leaves breast cells in a state of interrupted hormonal development in which they are more susceptible.”

* Hormonal contraceptives

* Hormonal replacement therapy (HRT)

Factors that lower the risk:

* Bearing children

* Giving birth at a low age.

* Higher fertility — giving birth to a larger number of children.

* Breastfeeding

The study concludes that the increase in breast cancer rates is tied first to an increase in abortion rates, and second to lower fertility (fewer births). For the immediate future, the study said a further increase in breast cancer is to be expected because women who are now older than 45 have had more abortions and fewer children than previous generations.

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