ABC Lawsuit Settled Settlement of a lawsuit in Australia brings a breakthrough in alerting women to abortion’s role as a risk factor for breast cancer. In 1998, Australian women began suing abortionists for lack of risk warnings including failure or refusal to inform them of the elevated risk of breast cancer stemming from abortion. Australian attorney Charles Francis stated, “Recently one of those cases has been settled for an undisclosed amount. This is believed to be the first case of its kind in the world.” The implication of settlement is an unarticulated concession by defendants and the court that the claim had merit, that in failing to warn the plaintiff(s) of the abortion/breast cancer link, the abortionist(s) violated the rights and interests of patients. As a result of the settlement, Karen Malec of the Coalition on Abortion Breast Cancer observes, “The abortion industry and its medical experts know that it will be far more challenging for them to lie to women about the abortion/breast cancer research when they are called upon to testify under oath. Scientists know that [induced] abortion causes breast cancer but are afraid to say so publicly in today’s hostile political climate.” On December 4, 2001, British scientists reported that women who have had an abortion are up to twice as likely to suffer from breast cancer. In the first study of its kind in Britain, researchers looked at breast cancer and abortion rates in Britain, Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic. The study draws a direct link between rising cases of breast cancer and an increase in abortion since it was legalized. The research, by the Populations and Pensions Research Institution, an independent group of statisticians, suggests that up to 50 percent of breast cancer cases in England and Wales over the next 26 years will be “attributable to abortion.”
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