Suseonline: It's far better to concentrate on contraceptives as a way to reduce unwanted pregnancies.

How can you be sure that taking oral contraceptives does not raise the risk of breast cancer?

As long as it prevents unwanted pregnancies and allows women to have more say in their reproductive lives, then the possibility of a slightly increased risk of breast cancer may be worth it.

Drinking too much alcohol is known to cause bowel, liver and prostate cancers.....how many people stop drinking 'just in case'?

If I really thought the majority of pro-life people gave a damn about the sinful women who had abortions getting breast cancer, as opposed to their apparent zeal for forcing women to go through with unwanted pregnancies ( and go without contraception so they are pregnant every year),
I might understand them better....

Dear susieonline
What made you think I was not a scientist? The data on most miscarriages (except those caused by accidents or a blow to the abdomen) not having a sufficient rise in hormones was found by Swiss researchers as far back as 1976. They were able to predict spontaneous miscarriages with 92% accuracy by just a single measurement of estradiol. The reference is Kunz J, Keller PJ, British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 1976; 83: 640-4. Come on, Susie, that's a journal published by white men and maybe some white women too. Look it up. Do you understand the connection? Estradiol levels do not rise sufficiently to maintain the pregnancy or for immature breast cells to multiply. Hence no increase in cells vulnerable to cancer

Gadfly so you say "pro lifers" don't condone murdering doctors and nurses but only because it only has a temporary effect on the number of abortions, not because it is morally wrong to murder. You can see why your hypocrisy makes anything you say a joke?

We oppose shooting abortion providers on moral grounds and practical grounds i.e. that it achieves only a temporary reduction in abortions. Unlike most politicians we are driven by moral principles not by the numbers of voters in favor of a particular proposition. If you read my previous post to mean that we only oppose it because it only achieves a temporary reduction then you have read something into it that was not intended. Our main weapons are education and information. This is bearing fruit in the US with a great many abortion providers GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. That will soon be happening in Oz.

Yes Gadfly you sound very proud the clinics are going out of business and that is largely due to the doctors and nurses being murdered. You sound as if you have no morals at all. Are you a member of some Jih@dist style extremist Christian sect?