It was just announced that Susan G. Komen for a Cure, America’s largest charity to fight breast cancer, will no longer fund a program that provides free or low-cost breast cancer screenings for millions of women who get their health care from Planned Parenthood. This is a huge blow.
In abruptly pulling nearly $1,000,000 in funding for breast cancer screenings, the Susan G. Komen foundation cited a sham “investigation” into Planned Parenthood launched by Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns, one of the most militant anti-choice members of Congress…
You can get more information and sign the petition at the link below:
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/komen_2/?r_by=-5081570-GmSoeyx&rc=paste1
I have run this 5k four times
with the law school team each year
NO MORE!
Unless Susan G. Komen restores its funding!!!
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Wow, that’s terrible!! I ran the CIBC Run for the Cure last fall and had a great time. I doubt that I would again if the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation did something like this. It’s just not right.
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Sorry you feel this way – sounds like your version of “pro-choice” gives no “choice” to the baby. Abortion is still murder, no matter how you look at it…
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I have done it twice. This was my first race ever.
I will do it again, yes.
I run for 2 women I know who have breast cancer, another who is waiting to see if she has it and she probably does.
I dont care about politics, I respect everyone’s opinion on this touchy subject…you will get it all here I think.
they are fighting against something that is killing a lot of women and taking moms away from their kids and that is plenty good enough for me. I am not going to comment about their choice of pulling funds from that program, I dont discuss politics on blogs. Cancer targets anyone, rich, poor, pro life, pro choice, republicans, democrats, if running a 5K can one day lead to saving them all, that is all that matters to me.
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My views have nothing to do with politics (I am not very political.) Also they have nothing to do with being pro-life. It has to do with providing the POOR with the same options as those with money. That is breast cancer screenings. I have mentored poor teenage girls who have no money and have to go to Planned Parenthood for birth control (so they don’t get pregnant & have babies they can’t afford to take care of.) I know there are women who cannot afford to go to doctors to get expensive mammograms. Planned Parenthood would be the only place they could afford.
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they just announced that they reversed their decision
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