ABORTIONS AND BREAST CANCER. I almost feel silly writing this, but new data from a massive Harvard study shows there's no link between abortion and breast cancer. There was, of course, never any good reason to assume there was a link, but the anti-abortion movement seized on a few obviously unsound studies with typical ferocity, and even passed laws in certain states forcing doctors to tell women seeking an abortion that it may increase their risks of breast cancer. But this study, which tracked over 100,000 women, fairly definitively buries that canard, even though I doubt it will immediately impact the laws forcing doctors to recite it.
--Ezra Klein
