An interesting thought

I borrowed the following quote from Dr. Amy Tuteur (who in turn got it from The Huffington Post). Though her most excellent post has more to do with epidurals during childbirth, this quote stuck out enough that I went back and read the article.

"In fact, for each year that a woman’s first full-term pregnancy is delayed, her risk of breast cancer rises 3.5 percent." 

This quote comes from a new bill (passed by New Hampshire's Tea*coughBAGcough* Party) requiring doctors to tell patients that abortions cause breast cancer. The quote is directly from the bill in New Hampshire and it makes me wonder:

If delaying pregnancy increases risk of breast cancer

and abortions increase the risk of breast cancer

Shouldn't we be encouraging girls to start getting pregnant as soon as they get their period?

This would, naturally, give each girl a great chance at not getting breast cancer. After all, according to this bill, if a girl (let's say she's 12) waits until she's 18 to have her first full-term pregnancy, she's 21% more likely to have breast cancer. Gosh, with that, I'm 45% more like to have breast cancer. I better go put a bun in the oven.

But wait ...

Doesn't the Tea Party advocate ABSTINENCE before marriage?

Now, I know that in New Hampshire a girl can be married at 13 with parental permission (which makes me go WTF??) and a waiver but still...what if she starts her period at 10 like some girls do? That's still a 7% increase.

Besides, what's the odds of getting married at 13 anyway? Most people wait, since most parents (hopefully) would rather keep their CHILD in school and not sell her off in marriage. So...

What I am really getting at is that this is the stupidest and *insert other synonyms here* thing I've heard in a while. After all... "There is no proven breast cancer link to abortion, according to the World Health Organization and the American Cancer Society." (See referenced article for quote). I think I'll believe the WHO and ACS. Idiot TeaBaggers.

Huh, well lookie at that!

It's December. When did that happen?

It's been a busy semester. It's going to be a busy two weeks. Tomorrow I have my ACLS exam and a major Shock and Trauma exam. On Thursday, we have Fall Summatives (OH SHIT!). Then next week, we start pre-finals*, followed immediately by FINALS. I'm looking forward to Winter Break, even though it's been shortened due to a serious of misfortunate events. I have to make up about 80hrs worth of internship due to illness (on my part and my preceptor) and random change in schedules. Ah well, I love being on the truck, so I don't mind cutting my break short.

In the mean time, I'll leave you with this bit of entertainment...