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Nancy G. Brinker responds to landslide of criticism aimed at Susan G. Komen charity
News that Susan G. Komen for the Cure planned to halt all grants to Planned Parenthood caused an uproar over the past two days, prompting the charity’s founder to address the issue in a video uploaded to YouTube and Facebook. The Associated Press learned that nation’s leading breast-cancer charity was…
Daily Show co-creator mocks Komen charity’s Karen Handel
Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show, on Wednesday mocked Karen Handel of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure after the charity cut off all grants to Planned Parenthood. Nearly 170,000 clinical breast exams performed by Planned Parenthood were supported by Komen grants. “I think she said it herself…
Rep. Speier blasts Komen: They ‘want to become a political advocacy group’
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) on Wednesday blasted Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, for cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood, which provides more low-cost women’s health services than any organization in the country. “A fine nonprofit that I have been associated with for years, I…
Twitter happenings
Update: You can read my expanded thoughts on the Komen cowardice here. As usual, Jesse and I will be tweeting coverage of the Florida primary tonight, which you can check out here for me and here for Jesse. If you’re not watching Twitter already, however, I highly recommend it. People…
Susan G. Komen charity cuts off grants to Planned Parenthood
The nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, will no longer give hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to Planned Parenthood, according to the Associated Press. Planned Parenthood received $680,000 in 2011 and $580,000 in 2010 from Komen for breast-cancer screening and related services. Nearly 170,000…
Why Obama did the right thing
Monitoring right wing rhetoric and skeptical debunking of conspiracy theories and woo are two of my major areas of interest, so hopefully you'll forgive me for being a little giddy when Barack Obama decided to take the birthers head on this morning by releasing the long form birth certificate they've…
A question and two videos
Now the fight is really warming up over the "debt ceiling", and it's clear that the Republicans are going to use the threat of not raising it in order to get concessions out of Democrats. (I wouldn't be surprised if Planned Parenthood becomes one of the hostages they'll try to…
Is Kirsten Powers mainstreaming an anti-contraception argument? Yes.
Even The Liberals: it’s a nickname I’ve now made up to describe a particular kind of writer/pundit. This is a person whose inadequacies as a thinker and writer prevents him/her from making it in the business as a straight liberal, but who has discovered that pretending to be a liberal…
Vagina-based investment opportunities abound!
While most of the people involved in right wing attack on contraception are sticking to the talking points (claiming it’s “fiscal conservatism” and conflating contraception/cancer screening/STD testing at Planned Parenthood with abortion), the excitement of finally having a shot at parting some of the poorest and most vulnerable women in…
Rally for Planned Parenthood!
Rush Limbaugh has joined the anti-contraception campaign by bashing Planned Parenthood at length, further mainstreaming it: Once again, I don’t enjoy being a Cassandra, but I have to point out that for years I and many others have been saying that the anti-contraception faction had taken over the anti-abortion movement,…
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