Comments on: Stop Giving Money to Susah G. Komen for the Cure, and tell everyone else you know to do the same. https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/31/stop-giving-money-to-susah-g-komen-for-the-cure-and-tell-everyone-else-you-know-to-do-the-same/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:50:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Claire https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/31/stop-giving-money-to-susah-g-komen-for-the-cure-and-tell-everyone-else-you-know-to-do-the-same/#comment-19975 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:50:33 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2144#comment-19975 Isn’t it an abomination for religious groups to decide the fate of pregnant women? Should they not be protected?!?

]]> By: Setár, self-appointed Elf-lord of social justice https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/31/stop-giving-money-to-susah-g-komen-for-the-cure-and-tell-everyone-else-you-know-to-do-the-same/#comment-19974 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:18:13 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2144#comment-19974 hotshoe #18: They weren’t taken over, just forced out of the closet because we’re finally waking up to how awful the Right really is.

]]> By: Sink The Pink | Meddling Kids https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/31/stop-giving-money-to-susah-g-komen-for-the-cure-and-tell-everyone-else-you-know-to-do-the-same/#comment-19973 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:17:52 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2144#comment-19973 […] I don’t have the real details on what went on here, I’m relying on various blog posts like this one, but from what I can gather, it appears that this is the work of religious pressure groups on the […]

]]> By: No Light https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/31/stop-giving-money-to-susah-g-komen-for-the-cure-and-tell-everyone-else-you-know-to-do-the-same/#comment-19972 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:04:48 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2144#comment-19972 Luke – you’ll need to concentrate hard for this one, ok?

Abortion (spontaneous or induced) is no different than ending a pregnancy by giving birth. The uterus is emptied, and the hormone levels drop. Got it?

OK. That would mean that anyone who’d ever conceived would get breast cancer, regardless of the outcome of that conception. Spontaneous abortion, induced abortion, premature birth and at term birth would all lead to breast cancer.

The same goes for any other false claims about abortion.

]]> By: Orac https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/31/stop-giving-money-to-susah-g-komen-for-the-cure-and-tell-everyone-else-you-know-to-do-the-same/#comment-19971 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:00:44 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2144#comment-19971

With Planned Parenthood being the number one provider of abortions in the U.S. and the known link between abortion and breast cancer, I found it rather counterproductive for Komen to be subsidizing Planned Parenthood anyway.

There is no link between abortion and breast cancer. That’s a myth promoted by cranks.

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2007/10/abortion_and_breast_cancer_the_chicago_t.php
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/02/the_journal_of_american_physicians_and_s.php

]]> By: Pierce R. Butler https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/31/stop-giving-money-to-susah-g-komen-for-the-cure-and-tell-everyone-else-you-know-to-do-the-same/#comment-19970 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:15:42 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2144#comment-19970 Luke @ # 15 – You do know (don’t you? well, you will by the end of this sentence) that Google search results are a (crude) measure of popularity, with no fact-checking involved at all – right?

hotshoe @ # 18: SGK has – apparently – been taken over by the anti-abortion, anti-birth-control hateful fundies.

Alas, ’tis true:

Karen Handel, who was endorsed by Sarah Palin during her unsuccessful bid for governor of Georgia in 2010, has been the Foundation’s Senior Vice President for Public Policy since April 2011. During her gubernatorial candidacy, she ran on an anti-choice platform, vowing that if elected, she’d defund Planned Parenthood.

]]> By: Arthur S https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/31/stop-giving-money-to-susah-g-komen-for-the-cure-and-tell-everyone-else-you-know-to-do-the-same/#comment-19969 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:03:25 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2144#comment-19969 This sounds like the sort of thing that would make for a change.org petition….

]]> By: Eskeptrical Engineer https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/31/stop-giving-money-to-susah-g-komen-for-the-cure-and-tell-everyone-else-you-know-to-do-the-same/#comment-19968 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:12:30 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2144#comment-19968 I made a donation. These services are too important to let disappear. I hope they can raise enough funds to keep them going.

]]> By: hotshoe https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/31/stop-giving-money-to-susah-g-komen-for-the-cure-and-tell-everyone-else-you-know-to-do-the-same/#comment-19967 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:36:54 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2144#comment-19967 I’d like some names of organizations which are large donors to Susan G. Komen. I think we could persuade some corporations not to donate to SGK this year, but to donate directly to the PP emergency fund instead.

SGK has – apparently – been taken over by the anti-abortion, anti-birth-control hateful fundies. There’s almost no chance that we can persuade them to rejoin the 21st century. But maybe we can persuade their secular supporters to dry up the support and switch to the organization which does provide genuine health care for women: Planned Parenthood.

]]> By: Luke https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/31/stop-giving-money-to-susah-g-komen-for-the-cure-and-tell-everyone-else-you-know-to-do-the-same/#comment-19966 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:03:05 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2144#comment-19966 Greg, what wild assumptions you are capable of…

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