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Article: Abortion & Breast Cancer Hardest Case -- or Cruelest Myth?(the case against therapeutic abortion)
- Article from:
- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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We all know that abortion was marketed to American society through appeals based on the hard cases. The hardest of these is when the life of the mother is at stake.
Perhaps the most common indication for a "life of the mother" abortion is the diagnosis of breast cancer in a woman who is pregnant. Heart-rending stories of such cases appear with some regularity in the popular press, most recently last fall in the WebMD Medical News.
Author, Beatrice Motamedi describes the emotionally crushing scenario of "Jana," 38, who was finally pregnant after years of trying, including two years of fertility treatments. However, just three weeks after learning she ...