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THIS IS BEAUTIFUL.
(Source: plannedfatherhood, via think-progress)
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notwithstanding the foregoing: just want to clarify something about this komen business i haven't seen discussed yet →
though it’s possible i just missed it, as i haven’t been doing a lot of deep reading on this yet.
restricted grants (such as the grant from komen to planned parenthood) require organizations to only spend the incoming money on the thing the grant is for. that’s written into…
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“Alarmed and Saddened” by Komen Foundation Succumbing to Political Pressure, Planned Parenthood Launches Fund for Breast Cancer Services →
My sister-in-law died of breast cancer at the age of 33. In the last years of her life, as she bravely fought the disease, she came in contact with multiple groups claiming to be about saving the lives of breast cancer patients. Many were exactly about that and some were critical and extremely important to her in the last months of her life.
But she always said that Komen wasn’t genuine, that they were about their own name more than the cancer or the people it affected. I never knew how to process that and she didn’t ever really elaborate. It was something about how much of their fundraising went back into the foundation instead of into research to actually find a cure.
Certainly this isn’t true on the local level or across the company at large. I’m sure there are plenty of people who work for Komen, donate their time to Komen, etc. who do it for all the right reasons.
But as an organization, they fucking suck and they will never receive one more ounce of my support or my money. If you want a place to donate, PLANNED PARENTHOOD would be one. Another good one is the BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
This is INCREDIBLY personal to me. My heart HURTS over this decision by Komen. I’m visibly shaken and my emotions are all over the place right now.
Shame on you, Komen. Shame. on. you.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America today expressed deep disappointment in response to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation’s decision to stop funding breast cancer prevention, screenings and education at Planned Parenthood health centers. Anti-choice groups in America have repeatedly threatened the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation for partnering with Planned Parenthood to provide these lifesaving cancer screenings and news articles suggest that the Komen Foundation ultimately succumbed to these pressures.
In the last few weeks, the Komen Foundation has begun notifying local Planned Parenthood programs that their breast cancer initiatives will not be eligible for new grants (beyond existing agreements or plans). The Komen Foundation’s leadership did not respond to Planned Parenthood requests to meet with the Komen Board of Directors about the decision.
To ensure that the Komen Foundation’s decision doesn’t jeopardize any woman’s access to lifesaving screenings and services, Planned Parenthood has launched a Breast Health Emergency Fund. The fund will offset the support that 19 local Planned Parenthood programs stand to lose from Komen. The Komen-funded Planned Parenthood programs have helped thousands of women in rural and underserved communities get breast health education, screenings, and referrals for mammograms.
Over the past five years, Planned Parenthood health centers with Komen program funding have provided nearly 170,000 clinical breast exams out of the more than four million clinical breast exams performed nationwide at Planned Parenthood health centers, as well as more than 6,400 mammogram referrals out of 70,000 mammogram referrals. Anti-choice groups in America have repeatedly threatened the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation for partnering with Planned Parenthood to provide these lifesaving cancer screenings.
Planned Parenthood’s quality, accessibility and affordability make it a leader in identifying breast cancer early when there is the best chance of successful treatment. Nationwide, Planned Parenthood doctors and nurses provide nearly 750,000 breast cancer screenings annually, offering risk assessments, breast exams, breast health information and education, and diagnostic and surgical referrals.
Led by a generous $250,000 gift from Amy and Lee Fikes’ foundation, Planned Parenthood has established a Breast Health Emergency Fund to provide immediate funding to ensure that Planned Parenthood health centers can continue to provide breast cancer screenings and care that had previously been supported by Komen.
[As someone who lives with a man who has to get regular screenings for breast cancer, there are obviously more people just those who identify as “women” who need and want access to breast cancer screenings.]
(Source: keepyourbsoutofmyuterus, via whineandbeer)
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Just sent this letter. He probably won’t read it himself, but whatever.
Councilor Wieczorek,
I’m not a resident of New Hampshire but I am completely, utterly appalled by the horrific things you’ve had to say about Planned Parenthood and contraception—distasteful, unreasonable remarks which show the utter lack of disrespect you hold for the people of New Hampshire.
You are a Republican, sir, are you not? If so, then dictating the reproductive health of Americans should be deplorable to you. It is not the government’s job to wave around a moral compass and decide who should and should not receive the necessary tools for family planning. This is, at its very core, “big government” at work, interfering in the private lives of citizens.
As for your remarks, now floating around in the press, you should be ashamed of yourself. I hope the people of New Hampshire take you and your colleagues to task for the callous ways in which you have endangered their health and safety by defunding Planned Parenthood, and specifically for these callous, ignorant, ludicrous statements. We are living in America in the 21st century; to suggest that Americans simply not engage in sexual intercourse as opposed to advocating sex education—to say that family planning is paying for someone else’s “party”—is backwards thinking of a most dangerous and irresponsible sort. And it is American families and taxpayers, who will in fact be “paying for the party” in the long run, if you and your colleagues have your way.
Sincerely,
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New Hampshire Planned Parenthood stops providing birth control →
“I am opposed to abortion,” said Raymond Wieczorek, a council member who voted against the contract. “I am opposed to providing condoms to someone. If you want to have a party, have a party but don’t ask me to pay for it.”
WHAT IS THIS SHIT. Seriously, what is this faux-moral society that seems to be becoming so fucking popular? Yeah Jesus would be so proud of you, buddy. That sure is helping out your fucking neighbor. This will also totally help avoiding abortions!! I bet you only ever had sex just to procreate. That’s really what we’re here for.
Get angry about this. This is short-sighted, right-wing, white-man bullshit at its finest.
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That an arch-conservative pro-life zealot like [Steve] King is eager to restrict women’s health care options is not news, but the reason King gave last night for defunding Planned Parenthood was straight out of a 1950s sex ed class. ‘Planned Parenthood,’ King said gravely, ‘is invested in promiscuity.’
To be fair, King implied he might offer a fuller explanation of Planned Parenthood’s ‘investment’ at another time, but this comment by itself is revealing. By suggesting that sexually active women who use family planning services just want license to be ‘promiscuous,’ King’s speech exposes the current anti-abortion drive in the House for what it is: a condescending effort to punish women for some imagined ‘promiscuity.’
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"What Pence and the House of Representatives did today was devalue women’s lives, women’s rights and women’s ability to participate fully in the democracy. The excuse used by Republicans is that we are saving taxpayer money. Saving money in exchange for breast exams, cervical cancer screenings, STD testing and care: Welcome to the movement that has long billed itself as “pro-life."
This is what “pro-life” means? - Abortion - Salon.com (via absurdical)
I was just about to post this exact same quote.
(via absurdical)
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Let’s reblog the shit out of this. OK?
24hrevengetherapy:chondrichthye:
The U.S. House of Representatives has just voted to bar Planned Parenthood health centers from all federal funding for birth control, cancer screenings, HIV testing, and other lifesaving care.
(Source: thefeeloffree, via nerd-gasms)
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I had a gynecological exam at Planned Parenthood. Once.
It was during a time when I worked at a job that made me work full-time yet file as a freelancer—under the guise that this was to my benefit, of course. Except that when I had to get my yearly exam at the lovely offices of my lovely Long Island-based OBGYN, the exam and the pap and all the lab work ended up running me $600 because my 1099 also meant that I stayed uninsured. (How this was to my benefit? Unclear. Except to say that it wasn’t, at all.)
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