Nah, we have the opposition to stem cell research, etc, etc, so we are losing ground to the rest of the world in health care thanks to Republican opposition to anything that doesn’t line the pockets of the 1% with cash.
The limit on stem cell research, and cutting the funding, was a true abomination indeed. Saving eggs is more important than saving lives. The foundation DID back pedal this morning so hard I think Lance Armstrong’s hamstrings were pulled by their blowback!!
More than 50% of the country want abortion stopped. Planned Parenthood is in the abortion business. So, many people don’t want tax dollars or their donations to go for abortions. Pretty easy to understand. Komen made the mistake of doing the right thing and then reversing it due to pressure from the loud minority. Komen will lose support over backing down. Someday we will look back and wonder how we could have ever killed babies.
@gbrucewilson and the rest: there are more abortions in countries with governments that ban abortions. It is a fact.Koman’s board of right-wing nincompoops wrongly decided that their political agenda was more important than the health and well-being of millions of women who rely, on a monthly basis, for their health care from Planned Parenthood. So millions of Americans fought back instantly, with their money, support, and thru social media to send a message that was undeniable: the subjugation of women for political gain will not be tolerated anymore. And the fact that this woman who started it all is a failed politician from GA who makes a six-figure salary doing so makes it all the more heinous.
komen is hardly a charity. only a tiny percentage of what they took in goes to breast cancer research. Planned parenthood made out like a bandit. they brought in 3 million in two days in contributions from people outratgged at komen, dwarfing what komen held back.
then and only then did komen do THE RIGHT THING and reversed their decision and said they’d give the grant to planned parenthood after all. Ihope komen does not survive. they sue “competing” charities that also try fo find a cure for breast cancer.
digusting people.
in the meantime Planned parenthood will continue to provide comprehensive health care to women, thereby PREVENTING abortioins through contraceptives education and providing ESSENTIAL ABORTIONS to women who need them.
God bless planned parenthood.God bless abortion doctors and the essential, lifesaving work they do.God bless ObamaGod bless the USA.
What I find ironic about the compulsary-pregnancy bunch (AKA right-to-lifers) is that so many of them are also stridently opposed to birth control. Apparently the logic of cause and effect cannot penetrate their shuttered minds.
And that so, so many of them bemoan and wail about government intrusion – yet are perfectly happy to suggest that said government refuse to recognize that women have the right to control their own bodies, even unto the often-stated belief that victims of rape or incest should be forced to continue pregnancies caused by such outrages.
Only about 8% of Americans would ban abortion under any circumstances. Around 23% would allow abortion only with severe constraints, variable reasons, like rape, incest, health of mother, etc. It is only the "extremist’ religionists who have the narrowest view, and least degree of informed judgment on the matter. The vast majority in Pew and other polls, are against making abortion illegal, but DO HAVE concerns, as in providing contraception, and not making it the “primary means” of birth control.
The projection by “religionists” of those supporting women’s right to chose as some sort of fetus drooling vampires, is as absurd as their argument for making women the PROPERTY OF MEN! THAT is the “biblical guidance” touted in repressive societies basing their argument on a book of myths. When MEN get pregnant, or get eaten by a giant “fish”, living inside for three days, then emerging unscathed, minds on either side MAY be swayed.
Response to gbrucewilson : Please take the blinders off! Pro-choice vs anti-choice is not the issue. If people don’t stop popping babies out like there’s no tomorrow, the human race is doomed.
What part of “population explosion” do you not understand?
rockngolfer about 12 years ago
Nah, we have the opposition to stem cell research, etc, etc, so we are losing ground to the rest of the world in health care thanks to Republican opposition to anything that doesn’t line the pockets of the 1% with cash.
agate1 about 12 years ago
The 1% can fly to Britain for the care (secretly) nudge,nudge,wink,wink,know what I mean!
Dtroutma about 12 years ago
The limit on stem cell research, and cutting the funding, was a true abomination indeed. Saving eggs is more important than saving lives. The foundation DID back pedal this morning so hard I think Lance Armstrong’s hamstrings were pulled by their blowback!!
Noveltman about 12 years ago
This, unfortunately, isn’t over.
gbrucewilson about 12 years ago
More than 50% of the country want abortion stopped. Planned Parenthood is in the abortion business. So, many people don’t want tax dollars or their donations to go for abortions. Pretty easy to understand. Komen made the mistake of doing the right thing and then reversing it due to pressure from the loud minority. Komen will lose support over backing down. Someday we will look back and wonder how we could have ever killed babies.
walruscarver2000 about 12 years ago
What does the constitution say about automobiles??
tcolkett about 12 years ago
This is just a silly remark.
majormarj about 12 years ago
@gbrucewilson and the rest: there are more abortions in countries with governments that ban abortions. It is a fact.Koman’s board of right-wing nincompoops wrongly decided that their political agenda was more important than the health and well-being of millions of women who rely, on a monthly basis, for their health care from Planned Parenthood. So millions of Americans fought back instantly, with their money, support, and thru social media to send a message that was undeniable: the subjugation of women for political gain will not be tolerated anymore. And the fact that this woman who started it all is a failed politician from GA who makes a six-figure salary doing so makes it all the more heinous.
danielse about 12 years ago
@Tom – “First, only about 3% of Planned Parenthood activity involves abortion.”
What do the spend the rest of ‘their’ (donated and tax) money on, then? Lobbying?
It is established that Planned Parenthood doesn’t do mammograms. Do they do anything breast-cancer related?
dannysixpack about 12 years ago
komen is hardly a charity. only a tiny percentage of what they took in goes to breast cancer research. Planned parenthood made out like a bandit. they brought in 3 million in two days in contributions from people outratgged at komen, dwarfing what komen held back.
then and only then did komen do THE RIGHT THING and reversed their decision and said they’d give the grant to planned parenthood after all. Ihope komen does not survive. they sue “competing” charities that also try fo find a cure for breast cancer.
digusting people.
in the meantime Planned parenthood will continue to provide comprehensive health care to women, thereby PREVENTING abortioins through contraceptives education and providing ESSENTIAL ABORTIONS to women who need them.
God bless planned parenthood.God bless abortion doctors and the essential, lifesaving work they do.God bless ObamaGod bless the USA.
Zuria Premium Member about 12 years ago
What I find ironic about the compulsary-pregnancy bunch (AKA right-to-lifers) is that so many of them are also stridently opposed to birth control. Apparently the logic of cause and effect cannot penetrate their shuttered minds.
And that so, so many of them bemoan and wail about government intrusion – yet are perfectly happy to suggest that said government refuse to recognize that women have the right to control their own bodies, even unto the often-stated belief that victims of rape or incest should be forced to continue pregnancies caused by such outrages.
Dtroutma about 12 years ago
Only about 8% of Americans would ban abortion under any circumstances. Around 23% would allow abortion only with severe constraints, variable reasons, like rape, incest, health of mother, etc. It is only the "extremist’ religionists who have the narrowest view, and least degree of informed judgment on the matter. The vast majority in Pew and other polls, are against making abortion illegal, but DO HAVE concerns, as in providing contraception, and not making it the “primary means” of birth control.
The projection by “religionists” of those supporting women’s right to chose as some sort of fetus drooling vampires, is as absurd as their argument for making women the PROPERTY OF MEN! THAT is the “biblical guidance” touted in repressive societies basing their argument on a book of myths. When MEN get pregnant, or get eaten by a giant “fish”, living inside for three days, then emerging unscathed, minds on either side MAY be swayed.
goweeder about 12 years ago
What part of “population explosion” do you not understand?