The Unexpected, Deadly Side-Effect of Abortion

(( I know I don't usually put stuff like this in here, it's always just my rambling, but I didn't know this until this summer, and maybe other people dont know either. I wrote this for an essay contest for the local fair, and, even though I went over the word limit, it won. Happy reading. =) ))

When a woman decides to have an abortion she may have too much on her mind to consider all of the risks. Breast cancer is proven to occur more often in women who have had an abortion. Many women do not know about the abortion/breast cancer link, and it costs them their lives. A woman might reconsider having an abortion if she knew about this potentially deadly after-effect and how likely it was to happen to her. For example;
A teen girl has about an 11% risk of contracting breast cancer during her lifetime. If she gets pregnant and has a baby, her risk is reduced to about 7.5%. But, if she gets pregnant and has an abortion, her risk can rise to 30% (depending on whether or not she has a baby later in life, which reduces her risk).
About 105,000 women who abort their first pregnancy will develop breast cancer. Of these women, 25%, or 7,000, will die of breast cancer. These are women who would not have developed breast cancer had it not been for their abortions.
Why would an abortion effect the chances of getting breast cancer? The answer;
Before a woman becomes pregnant, her breasts cannot produce milk because the gland cells are underdeveloped. When she gets pregnant, hormones, including large amounts of estrogen, inundate her system. A rapid growth in breast size is a result of this, as the internal structure goes through a dramatic change. Cells, that were previously dormant, grow rapidly, making the breasts capable of producing milk. Once they are mature, the chance of developing cancer is much less. If she aborts her pregnancy and interrupts this transitional stage, the cells are more likely to become cancerous.
Abortion is dangerous, taking not only the lives of unborn babies, but also the lives of many women.