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How bitterly ironic to play the race card when a huge number of the abortions are actually black babies and some activists claim that the push for abortion is tantamount to black genocide.
Yes, that's what the Reverend Jackson thought back in the sixties before it became politically correct to be "pro-choice."
Komen claims that their reason is that Planned Parenthood is under investigation from Congress, but as it's well-understood on both the left and the right that the investigation, headed by Rep. Cliff Stearns, is a nuisance investigation that will almost surely turn up nothing, this excuse sounds lame indeed. The likelier explanation is the one offered by Planned Parenthood, that Komen caved under relentless pressure from anti-choice activists who oppose Planned Parenthood for offering abortions as well as low-cost contraception and STD prevention and treatment. In addition, Komen has a history of not playing nice with other women's health organizations.
If this was a good thing, why would anyone like the Komen Foundation cave, such Liberal garbage. Funny how you people are believing PP when they've been seedy for years.
This was in your article...........Most of Planned Parenthood's services are related to the choice to be sexually active---contraception, STD screening and treatment, cervical cancer screening---making it easy to write off those services as unnecessary if you follow the strict abstinence-only prescription the Christian right has for women.
If Christians are completely against sex, why do Mormons and Catholics, have so, many children. Their not against sex, it's the act of abortion that this group provides.
Girl's can go in as young as 15, possibly younger, and have an abortion done, without anyone in her family, knowing she is there. How would you like to know, your daughter was having an abortion without you knowing where she was? What if she died from it? They tell you, you don't have to tell your parents.
People's choice's, shouldn't cost the taxpayer and if the Komen Foundation chooses to defund, that is their choice also.
Well, okay more like when they were going strong in the 70's, they started getting funded and setting up clinics in college towns around 1967, by 1975 they were in full swing, at least in California. Even the small town I lived in had a clinic, we had less than, 1000 people at the time.
We'll see if it's a nuisance investigation. The part that a child can go, an have an abortion without anyone knowing that they're there, is disturbing. It's the confidence of the clinic, if they would discuss options first, that would help. But, there wouldn't be much money, if the abortions stopped, now would there?
Why else would a breast cancer charity withdraw support from an agency that provides breast cancer screenings?
Most conservatives think of PP as an "abortion mill," where women ONLY go to abort their babies... I'm guessing the naysayers are mostly men, and/or women who've never set foot in a PP clinic. Too bad they'll lose funding for everything else they do for women, like providing breast cancer screening, free & low-cost birth control, gynecological exams, STD prevention and awareness, etc. What a crock of you-know-what.
Planned Parenthood facilities GIVE mammograms? Have the equipment and a radiologist on site?
If not ... Komen is about breast health/breast cancer. If the funding from Komen is going to stop PP folks/employees from teaching women how to give self-breast exams or referring them to some other "place" that will give them a mammogram...that's on PP.
How MUCH could that possibly cost?
Fill me in. I don't know and I'm admitting that I don't know.
Last edited by Informed Info; 02-01-2012 at 11:40 PM..
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