First Things RSS Feed - Joel Brind https://www.firstthings.com/author/joel-brind en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:51:35 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/joel-brind 60 Abortion, Breast Cancer, and Ideology https://www.firstthings.com/article/1997/05/abortion-breast-cancer-and-ideology https://www.firstthings.com/article/1997/05/abortion-breast-cancer-and-ideology Thu, 01 May 1997 00:00:00 -0400 In innumerable newspaper and television stories shortly after New Year’s, the reassuring news was passed to the American people: Science––in the form of the New England Journal of Medicine ––had spoken on the question of abortion and breast cancer. A supposedly definitive study from Denmark, prepared by Dr. Mads Melbye and his colleagues in Copenhagen, had concluded, “Induced abortions have no overall effect on the risk of breast cancer.”

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