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I agree that they have made Beast Cancer a cult but splitting with PP is just smart Ray Send a noteboard - 02/02/2012 05:39:49 PM
If people really want to be offended though they should be offended by the fact that we spend twice the much money on breast cancer research as we do on prostate cancer even though close to the same number of people die from both. But that is another debate of course.

Like it or not we outspend on breast cancer because the campaign to support it has been so successful. Fear of breast cancer is an issue that unites women no matter their race, religion or politics. Sending money to an organization best known for doing abortions poisons that well. It doesn’t really matter how the money is spent, there a lot of women out there who would rather burn their money than let it go to Planned Parenthood. Take my aunt for example, my uncle runs an oil company and all she does is spend money and do charity work. If it is a cause she believes in or one that she believes is sheik, she would have no problem dropping a grand to enter a bike race supporting it. Not only that but she can call twenty or so of her dearest friends and they will show up as well. Let them think that even a penny of that money is being spent on abortions and they will shun your event and tell all their friends to do the same and my aunt will be happy spending her money on $100 flip-flops and organic facial cream. She is very health conscious and has great insurance, she will get her screening either way.

If they were raising money for women's productive health then it would be foolish to not give money to PP but since that isn't their goal it was foolish to let their happy fell feel good movement that everyone from the NFL to Target supports be dragged into one of the most divisive issues in the country. If Komen isn't staying up nights trying to find a way to gracefully break the link with PP and all of its political baggage she should be fired for incompetence. Her job is to raise money and to stay the hell away from political causes that will hurt that goal.
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Susan G. Komen cuts funds to Planned Parenthood. (with updated edit) - 02/02/2012 04:32:27 PM 2275 Views
The most annoying part is in the sixth paragraph- abortions are only a small part of their thing - 02/02/2012 05:08:07 PM 1179 Views
I agree. - 02/02/2012 05:20:17 PM 1073 Views
I can understand it though. - 02/02/2012 05:45:55 PM 1135 Views
I can too, it just isn't for me. - 02/02/2012 05:58:33 PM 1053 Views
Actually, there are longer-acting forms of birth control than the pill. - 03/02/2012 12:37:42 AM 1059 Views
I do think that preventing abortions is their primary goal. - 03/02/2012 01:08:05 AM 1021 Views
If they don't see that link, it's because they haven't looked. - 03/02/2012 02:42:42 AM 1115 Views
That is a little unfair. - 03/02/2012 12:48:46 PM 1325 Views
Won't someone please think of the children?! - 04/02/2012 05:03:27 AM 1108 Views
I think you're leaving out some important points. - 04/02/2012 03:40:48 PM 1043 Views
Ah, the good ol' silent majority. - 04/02/2012 07:32:29 PM 1025 Views
So which moron is feeding you this crap? - 04/02/2012 10:27:15 PM 1070 Views
A zygote isn't a person, because it doesn't have a brain. - 05/02/2012 12:33:29 AM 1047 Views
It worries me when we think alike.... - 05/02/2012 01:22:35 PM 1094 Views
Brain waves at 8 weeks are a myth. - 05/02/2012 08:46:06 PM 1186 Views
"brain function... appears to be reliably present in the fetus at about eight weeks' gestation." - 05/02/2012 10:42:35 PM 1100 Views
Oh please. - 05/02/2012 11:13:50 PM 1062 Views
Re: Oh please yourself. - 06/02/2012 09:15:26 PM 928 Views
Quite a telling reply. - 07/02/2012 04:38:20 AM 1018 Views
Re: I quite agree. - 08/02/2012 06:03:23 PM 1211 Views
You're taking an issue of objective facts and treating it like a day of playground gossip. - 09/02/2012 03:47:06 AM 1032 Views
No, your source, in which there is very little that is objective, did that for me. - 11/02/2012 02:59:45 AM 1076 Views
I see you have continued to provide no factual arguments. - 14/02/2012 04:53:28 AM 1330 Views
I presented factual rebuttals. - 19/02/2012 01:56:45 AM 1119 Views
You continue to miss the point. - 23/02/2012 10:22:24 PM 1190 Views
Well, yes. - 04/02/2012 11:14:47 PM 1106 Views
A silent majority may as well not exist, if it has no tangible effects. - 05/02/2012 12:54:34 AM 1057 Views
You ignoring it is not the same thing as it having no tangible effect. - 05/02/2012 02:11:36 AM 1144 Views
Ignoring what? You haven't shown me anything solid. - 05/02/2012 05:25:23 AM 1051 Views
It's ok, we're done. *NM* - 05/02/2012 09:29:05 AM 625 Views
Since few people oppose ADULT contraception access, that might be wise in this case. - 04/02/2012 08:25:49 PM 1167 Views
Re: Since few people oppose ADULT contraception access, that might be wise in this case. - 05/02/2012 02:11:28 AM 1025 Views
If you are arguing most sex ed opponents are naïve/ignorant, I agree. - 05/02/2012 08:42:17 AM 898 Views
Re: If you are arguing most sex ed opponents are naïve/ignorant, I agree. - 05/02/2012 10:04:59 PM 1072 Views
Re: If you are arguing most sex ed opponents are naïve/ignorant, I agree. - 06/02/2012 08:57:38 PM 1017 Views
I'm done discussing my use of the term "oppression." The Tim Ryan stuff is interesting, though. - 07/02/2012 05:37:05 AM 1139 Views
Yet, regrettably, not done misusing it. - 08/02/2012 06:01:32 PM 1228 Views
Re: Yet, regrettably, not done misusing it. - 09/02/2012 05:30:58 AM 1091 Views
Re: Yet, regrettably, not done misusing it. - 11/02/2012 02:58:00 AM 1113 Views
Re: Yet, regrettably, not done misusing it. - 14/02/2012 04:29:08 AM 1189 Views
Re: Yet, regrettably, not done misusing it. - 19/02/2012 01:54:30 AM 1093 Views
Re: Yet, regrettably, not done misusing it. - 23/02/2012 10:59:32 PM 1396 Views
Re: Yet, regrettably, not done misusing it. - 07/03/2012 01:47:44 AM 1058 Views
Re: Yet, regrettably, not done misusing it. - 15/03/2012 10:27:23 PM 1312 Views
There are problems with the implants - 03/02/2012 01:42:55 AM 1081 Views
You have a talent for understatement. - 03/02/2012 01:08:40 PM 1065 Views
I agree that they have made Beast Cancer a cult but splitting with PP is just smart - 02/02/2012 05:39:49 PM 1218 Views
I agree. - 02/02/2012 06:00:17 PM 989 Views
yes she is going to have to piss off one group or the other - 02/02/2012 06:12:31 PM 1058 Views
Right - 02/02/2012 06:24:14 PM 1120 Views
Do you see a way Komen could have avoided pissing off one side? - 02/02/2012 06:55:36 PM 1049 Views
No, I don't. I don't believe I said that? - 02/02/2012 07:53:50 PM 970 Views
You didn't; I inferred it from the way you phrased that ("if she HAS to..."). Sorry. - 02/02/2012 08:06:11 PM 1039 Views
I know I'm not always clear. - 02/02/2012 08:32:47 PM 1046 Views
Just curious... - 02/02/2012 10:07:49 PM 1027 Views
Not at all. - 02/02/2012 10:24:19 PM 1094 Views
Not at all? - 02/02/2012 10:32:31 PM 986 Views
No. - 02/02/2012 10:47:04 PM 944 Views
My argument is based on my belief that the pro-choice women are more dedicated to women's causes - 02/02/2012 11:17:24 PM 1042 Views
Re: My argument is based on my belief that the pro-choice women are more dedicated to women's causes - 03/02/2012 12:08:01 AM 1035 Views
wow that may be the worst advice I had in weeks - 03/02/2012 12:13:18 AM 1018 Views
Ooor, the best. - 03/02/2012 12:25:56 AM 988 Views
ok now you are just being mean *NM* - 03/02/2012 12:46:12 AM 619 Views
The thread was going too well - I thought we needed the meanness. *NM* - 03/02/2012 11:30:39 AM 569 Views
rabble rouser *NM* - 04/02/2012 04:24:01 AM 619 Views
I misread this at first - 03/02/2012 12:51:44 AM 1044 Views
not to mention codeine seems to make me double post - 02/02/2012 11:17:26 PM 2088 Views
I'm not so sure I agree. Or not completely. - 02/02/2012 06:14:11 PM 978 Views
I don't diagree with the way you see it - 02/02/2012 06:39:41 PM 1046 Views
More inevitable than anything, considering who started Komen. - 02/02/2012 10:19:34 PM 993 Views
Never having heard of any of those except PP, my opinion may not be the most relevant... - 02/02/2012 08:32:48 PM 1105 Views
You don't know stuff. - 02/02/2012 08:43:38 PM 1072 Views
I know the stuff that matters. - 02/02/2012 09:55:08 PM 975 Views
That's true. - 02/02/2012 10:34:32 PM 1079 Views
they may also be a afraid that PP will go the way of ACORN - 02/02/2012 11:04:16 PM 1122 Views
"Accused" of = unfounded slander. - 03/02/2012 12:13:30 AM 1139 Views
This is so foreign a debate for me - 02/02/2012 10:16:15 PM 1096 Views
Must be nice. *NM* - 03/02/2012 12:26:49 AM 674 Views
Re: stuff - 03/02/2012 09:18:53 AM 995 Views
I'm sorry, but what're we talking about when we're talking about "cancer" - 03/02/2012 12:49:34 PM 1025 Views
Obviously not adenocarcinoma, no. - 04/02/2012 07:36:06 AM 1048 Views
I"m not that fussed. I'm just generally leary of research that has results like that - 04/02/2012 08:35:04 PM 983 Views
Fair enough. - 04/02/2012 10:17:31 PM 1047 Views
They restored funding incidentally - 03/02/2012 05:43:47 PM 982 Views
Unless I've missed it - 03/02/2012 05:56:15 PM 1053 Views
You must have missed it then - 03/02/2012 07:07:13 PM 980 Views
If you're referring to Cannoli - 03/02/2012 07:19:25 PM 1136 Views
Multiple was not an accidental choice of words - 03/02/2012 11:46:30 PM 1025 Views
Then I agree that maybe this is not the thread for you. - 04/02/2012 12:41:42 AM 1046 Views
Re: Then I agree that maybe this is not the thread for you. - 04/02/2012 01:53:25 AM 1237 Views
Well, I'll try again for both of us. - 04/02/2012 02:56:42 PM 1066 Views
Re: Well, I'll try again for both of us. - 04/02/2012 07:40:25 PM 1030 Views
well at least there will not be any doubt about this being a political decision - 03/02/2012 06:24:14 PM 1170 Views
I think that ship sailed long ago. - 03/02/2012 08:45:13 PM 981 Views
Truth - 04/02/2012 02:07:20 AM 1090 Views
I do wonder a bit which lawmakers Fox thinks "pressured" Komen. - 03/02/2012 08:29:50 PM 979 Views
are you trying to disprove the study you posted? - 03/02/2012 09:20:12 PM 1113 Views
To me, it depends on the nature of the contact, which I have not dug enough to discover. - 03/02/2012 10:43:45 PM 1007 Views
you admit you have no incite into what happened - 04/02/2012 04:27:17 AM 1039 Views
Actually, it looks like Komens new VP (and former GOP GA gubernatorial candidate) had the incite. - 04/02/2012 04:24:14 PM 1073 Views
educated guess don't work when you are tinfoil hat wearing kool-aid drinker - 04/02/2012 09:33:49 PM 985 Views
Dude. - 04/02/2012 11:20:49 PM 906 Views
Yo mama? - 05/02/2012 05:32:11 AM 1078 Views
whhhhhhyyyyyy - 04/02/2012 11:23:58 PM 1063 Views
Why would I not think that? - 05/02/2012 05:46:15 AM 934 Views

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