In February 2003, Dr. Louise Brinton (pictured lower right), the National Cancer Institute's chief of the Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, served as chairperson at an NCI workshop in Bethesda, MD, to assess whether abortion was implicated as a breast cancer risk.

In the opinion of "over 100 of the world's leading experts," said the subsequent NCI report, including Dr. Brinton, the answer was no....

At the time, 29 out of 38 studies conducted worldwide over 40 years showed an increased ABC risk, but NCI workshop "experts" nevertheless concluded it was "well established" that "induced abortion is not associated with an increase in breast cancer risk."...

Life went on, except for post-abortive women inflicted with breast cancer anyway.

But 6 years later something happened. Dr. Brinton either flipped her lid, flipped ideologies, restudied the evidence and decided to recant, or couldn't sleep at night - and she began righting her wrong....