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I think that ship sailed long ago. Joel Send a noteboard - 03/02/2012 08:45:13 PM
I do find it hard to miss the irony that lawmakers put heavy pressure on a private organization to make a particular decision because they felt the original decision may have been politically motivated. That really only makes sense if their goal was to ensure the group was making a politically motivated decision.

I admit I have not followed this closely, but have seen no evidence of any political pressure from either side. It strikes me as a political decision made by a politician who happens to run a charity. She thought she could excuse it on the grounds of a hasty new rule adopted in the wake of another politicians investigation of Planned Parenthood (which even Komens latest statement calls "political" and denies is "criminal.") Oops. :[

SGK managed to get the worst of both worlds with this. They have managed to piss off both sides and take what was a small connection to PP and make it a very public. The pro-choicers are pissed at the for the first decision and now the pro-lifers are going to be really pissed. When it is all said and done they are right back with they started with the only thing they accomplished was to drag their breast cancer charity into the abortion debate. They really screwed the pooch on this this one.

Sounds about right.
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Susan G. Komen cuts funds to Planned Parenthood. (with updated edit) - 02/02/2012 04:32:27 PM 2529 Views
The most annoying part is in the sixth paragraph- abortions are only a small part of their thing - 02/02/2012 05:08:07 PM 1391 Views
I agree. - 02/02/2012 05:20:17 PM 1272 Views
I can understand it though. - 02/02/2012 05:45:55 PM 1353 Views
I can too, it just isn't for me. - 02/02/2012 05:58:33 PM 1286 Views
Actually, there are longer-acting forms of birth control than the pill. - 03/02/2012 12:37:42 AM 1270 Views
I do think that preventing abortions is their primary goal. - 03/02/2012 01:08:05 AM 1231 Views
If they don't see that link, it's because they haven't looked. - 03/02/2012 02:42:42 AM 1347 Views
That is a little unfair. - 03/02/2012 12:48:46 PM 1594 Views
Won't someone please think of the children?! - 04/02/2012 05:03:27 AM 1338 Views
I think you're leaving out some important points. - 04/02/2012 03:40:48 PM 1232 Views
Ah, the good ol' silent majority. - 04/02/2012 07:32:29 PM 1253 Views
So which moron is feeding you this crap? - 04/02/2012 10:27:15 PM 1275 Views
A zygote isn't a person, because it doesn't have a brain. - 05/02/2012 12:33:29 AM 1260 Views
It worries me when we think alike.... - 05/02/2012 01:22:35 PM 1343 Views
Brain waves at 8 weeks are a myth. - 05/02/2012 08:46:06 PM 1413 Views
"brain function... appears to be reliably present in the fetus at about eight weeks' gestation." - 05/02/2012 10:42:35 PM 1332 Views
Oh please. - 05/02/2012 11:13:50 PM 1283 Views
Re: Oh please yourself. - 06/02/2012 09:15:26 PM 1138 Views
Quite a telling reply. - 07/02/2012 04:38:20 AM 1249 Views
Re: I quite agree. - 08/02/2012 06:03:23 PM 1444 Views
You're taking an issue of objective facts and treating it like a day of playground gossip. - 09/02/2012 03:47:06 AM 1267 Views
No, your source, in which there is very little that is objective, did that for me. - 11/02/2012 02:59:45 AM 1313 Views
I see you have continued to provide no factual arguments. - 14/02/2012 04:53:28 AM 1590 Views
I presented factual rebuttals. - 19/02/2012 01:56:45 AM 1342 Views
You continue to miss the point. - 23/02/2012 10:22:24 PM 1431 Views
Well, yes. - 04/02/2012 11:14:47 PM 1377 Views
A silent majority may as well not exist, if it has no tangible effects. - 05/02/2012 12:54:34 AM 1243 Views
You ignoring it is not the same thing as it having no tangible effect. - 05/02/2012 02:11:36 AM 1360 Views
Ignoring what? You haven't shown me anything solid. - 05/02/2012 05:25:23 AM 1245 Views
It's ok, we're done. *NM* - 05/02/2012 09:29:05 AM 741 Views
Since few people oppose ADULT contraception access, that might be wise in this case. - 04/02/2012 08:25:49 PM 1422 Views
Re: Since few people oppose ADULT contraception access, that might be wise in this case. - 05/02/2012 02:11:28 AM 1280 Views
If you are arguing most sex ed opponents are naïve/ignorant, I agree. - 05/02/2012 08:42:17 AM 1104 Views
Re: If you are arguing most sex ed opponents are naïve/ignorant, I agree. - 05/02/2012 10:04:59 PM 1299 Views
Re: If you are arguing most sex ed opponents are naïve/ignorant, I agree. - 06/02/2012 08:57:38 PM 1225 Views
I'm done discussing my use of the term "oppression." The Tim Ryan stuff is interesting, though. - 07/02/2012 05:37:05 AM 1366 Views
Yet, regrettably, not done misusing it. - 08/02/2012 06:01:32 PM 1486 Views
Re: Yet, regrettably, not done misusing it. - 09/02/2012 05:30:58 AM 1322 Views
Re: Yet, regrettably, not done misusing it. - 11/02/2012 02:58:00 AM 1339 Views
Re: Yet, regrettably, not done misusing it. - 14/02/2012 04:29:08 AM 1421 Views
Re: Yet, regrettably, not done misusing it. - 19/02/2012 01:54:30 AM 1317 Views
Re: Yet, regrettably, not done misusing it. - 23/02/2012 10:59:32 PM 1642 Views
Re: Yet, regrettably, not done misusing it. - 07/03/2012 01:47:44 AM 1320 Views
Re: Yet, regrettably, not done misusing it. - 15/03/2012 10:27:23 PM 1543 Views
There are problems with the implants - 03/02/2012 01:42:55 AM 1311 Views
You have a talent for understatement. - 03/02/2012 01:08:40 PM 1298 Views
I agree that they have made Beast Cancer a cult but splitting with PP is just smart - 02/02/2012 05:39:49 PM 1470 Views
I agree. - 02/02/2012 06:00:17 PM 1249 Views
yes she is going to have to piss off one group or the other - 02/02/2012 06:12:31 PM 1294 Views
Right - 02/02/2012 06:24:14 PM 1333 Views
Do you see a way Komen could have avoided pissing off one side? - 02/02/2012 06:55:36 PM 1258 Views
No, I don't. I don't believe I said that? - 02/02/2012 07:53:50 PM 1176 Views
You didn't; I inferred it from the way you phrased that ("if she HAS to..."). Sorry. - 02/02/2012 08:06:11 PM 1314 Views
I know I'm not always clear. - 02/02/2012 08:32:47 PM 1271 Views
Just curious... - 02/02/2012 10:07:49 PM 1253 Views
Not at all. - 02/02/2012 10:24:19 PM 1294 Views
Not at all? - 02/02/2012 10:32:31 PM 1214 Views
No. - 02/02/2012 10:47:04 PM 1146 Views
My argument is based on my belief that the pro-choice women are more dedicated to women's causes - 02/02/2012 11:17:24 PM 1237 Views
Re: My argument is based on my belief that the pro-choice women are more dedicated to women's causes - 03/02/2012 12:08:01 AM 1240 Views
wow that may be the worst advice I had in weeks - 03/02/2012 12:13:18 AM 1238 Views
Ooor, the best. - 03/02/2012 12:25:56 AM 1214 Views
ok now you are just being mean *NM* - 03/02/2012 12:46:12 AM 737 Views
The thread was going too well - I thought we needed the meanness. *NM* - 03/02/2012 11:30:39 AM 675 Views
rabble rouser *NM* - 04/02/2012 04:24:01 AM 748 Views
I misread this at first - 03/02/2012 12:51:44 AM 1251 Views
not to mention codeine seems to make me double post - 02/02/2012 11:17:26 PM 2298 Views
I'm not so sure I agree. Or not completely. - 02/02/2012 06:14:11 PM 1185 Views
I don't diagree with the way you see it - 02/02/2012 06:39:41 PM 1268 Views
More inevitable than anything, considering who started Komen. - 02/02/2012 10:19:34 PM 1214 Views
Never having heard of any of those except PP, my opinion may not be the most relevant... - 02/02/2012 08:32:48 PM 1308 Views
You don't know stuff. - 02/02/2012 08:43:38 PM 1294 Views
I know the stuff that matters. - 02/02/2012 09:55:08 PM 1185 Views
That's true. - 02/02/2012 10:34:32 PM 1297 Views
they may also be a afraid that PP will go the way of ACORN - 02/02/2012 11:04:16 PM 1331 Views
"Accused" of = unfounded slander. - 03/02/2012 12:13:30 AM 1382 Views
This is so foreign a debate for me - 02/02/2012 10:16:15 PM 1321 Views
Must be nice. *NM* - 03/02/2012 12:26:49 AM 760 Views
Re: stuff - 03/02/2012 09:18:53 AM 1197 Views
I'm sorry, but what're we talking about when we're talking about "cancer" - 03/02/2012 12:49:34 PM 1250 Views
Obviously not adenocarcinoma, no. - 04/02/2012 07:36:06 AM 1338 Views
I"m not that fussed. I'm just generally leary of research that has results like that - 04/02/2012 08:35:04 PM 1189 Views
Fair enough. - 04/02/2012 10:17:31 PM 1341 Views
They restored funding incidentally - 03/02/2012 05:43:47 PM 1216 Views
Unless I've missed it - 03/02/2012 05:56:15 PM 1275 Views
You must have missed it then - 03/02/2012 07:07:13 PM 1213 Views
If you're referring to Cannoli - 03/02/2012 07:19:25 PM 1383 Views
Multiple was not an accidental choice of words - 03/02/2012 11:46:30 PM 1239 Views
Then I agree that maybe this is not the thread for you. - 04/02/2012 12:41:42 AM 1276 Views
Re: Then I agree that maybe this is not the thread for you. - 04/02/2012 01:53:25 AM 1483 Views
Well, I'll try again for both of us. - 04/02/2012 02:56:42 PM 1307 Views
Re: Well, I'll try again for both of us. - 04/02/2012 07:40:25 PM 1272 Views
well at least there will not be any doubt about this being a political decision - 03/02/2012 06:24:14 PM 1373 Views
I think that ship sailed long ago. - 03/02/2012 08:45:13 PM 1222 Views
Truth - 04/02/2012 02:07:20 AM 1270 Views
I do wonder a bit which lawmakers Fox thinks "pressured" Komen. - 03/02/2012 08:29:50 PM 1201 Views
are you trying to disprove the study you posted? - 03/02/2012 09:20:12 PM 1373 Views
To me, it depends on the nature of the contact, which I have not dug enough to discover. - 03/02/2012 10:43:45 PM 1201 Views
you admit you have no incite into what happened - 04/02/2012 04:27:17 AM 1273 Views
Actually, it looks like Komens new VP (and former GOP GA gubernatorial candidate) had the incite. - 04/02/2012 04:24:14 PM 1316 Views
educated guess don't work when you are tinfoil hat wearing kool-aid drinker - 04/02/2012 09:33:49 PM 1234 Views
Dude. - 04/02/2012 11:20:49 PM 1121 Views
Yo mama? - 05/02/2012 05:32:11 AM 1309 Views
whhhhhhyyyyyy - 04/02/2012 11:23:58 PM 1292 Views
Why would I not think that? - 05/02/2012 05:46:15 AM 1140 Views

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