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This statement is in opposition to SB 690. I have read the report by Kleder and Richmond-Crum “The Truth Revealed”, funded by NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland Fund. An assumption of the report is that the medical community has “firmly established no link exists between abortion and the development of breast cancer. ” The citation used for this statement is the 1997 Melbye study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It is true that no increase risk was reported for 1 st trimester abortions. However, that study did show a statistically significant 38 % increase in risk in breast cancer when an abortion was done in the 2 nd trimester. Approximately 10 % of all abortions in the US are done in the second trimester which last year meant that 120,000 women substantially increased their risk of breast cancer. The report also said these findings were confirmed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 2003. However, as the last section of my testimony will show, the NCI has demonstrated itself to b