Score another one for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, those experts in womens' health and nonprofit budgets, whose "investigation" into Planned Parenthood is serving as a useful tool to get foundations (in this case, the Susan G. Komen foundation, executive-staffed by right-wingers) to stop funding breast exams at Planned Parenthood. (Now they'll go back to fighting Obamacare for a while.) Neato, everyone loses.
Is it wrong to imagine people protesting at every Komen 5K finish line by sitting, arms linked, in perfect silence, like those kids did to the UC Davis chancellor? It's probably wrong. Better to consult this year's race schedule and make donations to Planned Parenthood in those cities on Komen race days. But I still really like the idea of a silent treatment. Oh, and abolishing all that pink, ta-ta bushwa would be nice, too.
Any new reason to oppose the Susan G. Komen Foundation when the office manager comes around selling pink ribbons is good enough for me.
@Astigmatism
Oh but those pink ribbons are so cute when streaked with yellow!
I'd comment, but I'm off to make a donation to Planned Parenthood.
@hockeymom Everyone should make their donations as a gift from Karen Handel, the Komen VP/anti-choice witch who made all this possible. She'll get a card in the mail letting her know a donation has been made in her name!
This shit makes my boobs feel lumpy with rage.
@laurel Here, have a seat in the Hospitality Tent.
So, real question: what alternative breast cancer research/prevention organizations can we give our money to? Because I don't know if I can really support my friends running five kilometers forward and ending up fifty years in the past...
@Multiphasic I'd suggest giving money to groups associated with other forms of cancer. Women are almost twice as likely to die from lung cancer as they are from breast cancer, but lung cancer research receives about one-tenth the funding per death. See e.g. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-lewis/lung-cancer-blacks-african-americans_b_1132876.html
Well, at least this could serve as a teachable moment in two ways. 1) The Komen Foundation hasn't really accomplished all that much in terms of advancing breast cancer research, and more importantly 2) the Christian Right's assault on "abortion" is really an overall assault on women and their access to healthcare in general. The sooner religion is more broadly acknowledged to be the hateful, destructive cancer on civilized society that it is, the better. And no, you superstitious idiots, I don't give a shit if you're offended.