This editorial just posted in Dallas Morning News Re: Komen

[w8liftinglady]

Floyd: Komen for the Cure’s new fashion statement: the pink burka

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/columnists/jacquielynn-floyd/20120201-floyd-komen-for-the-cures-new-fashion-statement-the-pink-burka.ece

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It’s being hinted that the split with Planned Parenthood is a deliberate political right turn by the Komen organization.

Supporters of this conspiracy theory point to the addition of a new senior vice president for public policy: Karen Handel, who ran a 2010 Georgia gubernatorial campaign as an anti-abortion candidate.

Maybe so. But it’s equally possible that, like many others who have caved before them, the Komen people are simply scared, wimping out before the onslaught of yodeling ideologues who want Government Off Our Backs -- except when it comes to women’s most private, intimate personal business.

They got bullied into shrinking away from Planned Parenthood by an organized lobbying effort that wants to make the oldest non-profit reproductive health organization in our nation too radioactive to touch.

[w8liftinglady]

1. I especially liked the last two lines

"That’s like saying abandoning your post in the heat of battle wasn’t about cowardice -- you just had some other place to be.

As much as it would like to sidestep a public pronouncement, the Komen Foundation has chosen sides. It picked the burka."

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. That's an excellent, well-written, right to the point editorial.

Thank you for posting it!

[southernyankeebelle]

3. The more they try to make PP radioactive the more they will get the support from women. I read

on HuffPost that they raised already over $400,000. Women must stick together.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. And we ARE.

[w8liftinglady]

5. yes,we are.

Planned Parenthood was there for me when I needed them.

[southernyankeebelle]

6. LET'S GO GIRLS.

[WCGreen]

7. When we had money....

We always gave first to Planned Parenthood.

[sufrommich]

7. The War on Women continues.As long as the attacks

against the reproductive rights on women are allowed to stand without a counterattack, they'll win. Boycott anything with a pink ribbon on it.Use your money to fight back. Do not elect anyone who is wishy washy about a woman's reproductive rights.

[ProSense]

9. That's

Maybe so. But it’s equally possible that, like many others who have caved before them, the Komen people are simply scared, wimping out before the onslaught of yodeling ideologues who want Government Off Our Backs -- except when it comes to women’s most private, intimate personal business.

...it in a nutshell.

[rhett o rick]

10. k&r

[w8liftinglady]

11. And another editorial just printed

http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2012/02/komen-foundatio.html

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"Komen caved to political pressure, pure and simple. And in the process, they limit the achievement of their primary goal, which is to fight breast cancer. Please, whichever way you go on the abortion issue, at least stand on principle. Be upfront and unequivocal. Organizations that behave in such a wimpy manner make me question why they deserve the enthusiastic outpouring of support that they've received in the past. The next time Komen for the Cure comes asking us for an editorial supporting one of their local events, I'm going the think twice."

[The Philosopher]

12. Time to form a PAC

And force Komen for the Cure to stop supporting the fight against breast cancer, because such support will ultimately expose a woman's breast to someone not in that sacred marriage.

Think of the children!!!