On today’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program, Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver and Matt Barber were discussing what they contend is a link between abortion and breast cancer. While this claim is a favorite of the anti-choice movement, it is disputed by the likes of the American Cancer Society, which says that “scientific evidence does not support the notion that abortion of any kind raises the risk of breast cancer or any other type of cancer.”

Nonetheless, Barber and Staver are quite sure that such a link exists because it is only natural for a “sin” like abortion to carry with it deadly consequences.

“Scripture talks about the wages of sin is death,” Barber said. “It strikes me that abortion is a sin, abortion is absolutely a sin, so the natural consequence of an unnatural behavior of going in an killing an unborn baby in the mother’s womb therefore wreaking havoc, killing the child, that is a sin and the wages of sin there, the natural consequence of that havoc that has been wreaked here is an increased risk of breast cancer.”

When Barber sought to clarify that he was not saying that breast cancer is God’s way of punishing women who have had abortions, Staver stepped in to say that having an abortion was no different than ingesting poison.

“You take strychnine or you take some kind of poison into your body, you have to expect that there’s going to be consequences,” Staver said. “It’s an obvious natural consequence to an act, a choice that someone makes”: