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RESEARCH NEWS - Headlines from three major newspapers on January 9,1997: Abortion Study Fuels Debate on Cancer Link (Wall Street Journal). Big Study Finds No Link in Abortion and Cancer (New York...
...Thus, for women whose pregnancies were terminated after eighteen weeks, the risk found was nearly twice that of women who had abortions from seven to ten weeks of a pregnancy...
...The question: Does abortion lead to an increased risk for breast cancer...
...The Journal story began on the front page and focused exclusively on how the findings would play in the U.S...
...Big Study Finds No Link in Abortion and Cancer (New York Times...
...The Times report was full of good news-there was "no overall increased risk of breast cancer among those who had had induced abortions"-until the bottom of the story: "Among 2.3 percent of women who had abortions after the first trimester, however, the researchers found a gradually increasing risk of breast cancer as the the term of the aborted pregnancy advanced...
...abortion debate...
...The subject: A Danish study of 1.5 million Danish women who had had abortions...
...The Post's first paragraph read: "Women who get an abortion during the first eighteen weeks of pregnancy do not have an increased risk of getting breast cancer later in life...
...Study Disputes Breast Cancer Abortion Link (Washington Post...
Vol. 124 • January 1997 • No. 2
