Reply #79: PubMed

[justjones]

I did a search on PubMed, a database designed to provide access to citations from biomedical literature. I came up with 245 articles relating to the long term effects of abortion, so there is some data out there.

I read a few abstracts, but it seems there is no consensus on whether or not abortion has any long term effects on fertility, increased cancer risk, etc.

However, let's say hypothetically it is pr oven that abortion decreases fertility and increases the risk of breast cancer....like the article a previous poster listed says, it most likely would not affect a woman's choice to have an abortion. And when they talk about "increased risk" of breast cancer, I'm sure it pales in comparison to the "increased risk" of remaining in poverty for a woman who carries an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy to term given the fact that half of women who obtain abortions in the U.S. are poor and low income. Oh, and I'm not even mentioning the problems children face who are born into poverty.

No, I think it will be more fuel for the anti-choice movement. There's a host of other risky things people do that directly correlates to cancer, such as smoking, and that hasn't been outlawed.

I'm sure by addressing this to you I am preaching to the choir, but my reason for writing this has more to do with venting my frustrations than anything.

Ultimately, I think women need to, as they say, "get some balls," and stand up and tell these bastards that their bodies are their own and no one is going to tell them what they can or cannot do with it. A woman's right to choose trumps any potential life of the fetus's, point blank. I know that's harsh, but people need to deal with it. No one can argue against it's viability and it wouldn't conflict with the ban on late-term abortions.

And if she is killing a "soul," she will answer to their so-called God and not them. Afterall, isn't it true that there is no one to fear but God himself?

My womb, my life, my choice!