The Statistics

Prior to1973, cases of breast cancer were largely found in older women at a rate of 82.6 per 100,000. By 1998, female breast cancer incidence increased by more than 40% to 118.1 per 100,000 with the rise being found increasingly in younger, pre-menopausal women. In fact, there has been enough concern about a causal relationship to initiate 36 published studies since 1973 when abortion was legalized in the United States.

Canada's ten provinces and two territories reported that centres participating in the "therapeutic abortion program" performed 11,132 abortions in 1970, the first year of the new abortion legislation.

Annually there are at least 100,000 abortions in Canada. Daily, about three hundred abortions are performed on women who may be unaware of the medical risks they are taking by interrupting their pregnancies.

The Canadian Breast Cancer Network previously stated on their web-site that "The incidence of breast cancer has risen slowly but steadily in the past 40 years; in the 1960s, a Canadian woman's lifetime risk of breast cancer was 1 in 20, now it is 1 in 8." (The Canadian Cancer Society’s Annual report for 2007 reports the incidence of breast cancer in women as 1 in 9.) Despite improved methods for early diagnosis and treatment, the incidence of breast cancer continues to rise. With 22,000 new cases each year in Canada, breast cancer continues to lead in cancer incidences among women, being more than twice as prevalent as lung cancer. What is even more lamentable is the fact that 25% of women who have breast cancer in Canada will die from the disease each year.