Keeping up with the dizzying array of anti-choice legislation littering statehouses around the nation is a full-time job with no benefits. It’s estimated that more than 1,000 versions of bills restricting access to abortion were floated last session alone, ostensibly fulfilling Republicans’ loud and communal campaign promise of creating jobs – albeit only in the medical [...]
Three days after withdrawing funding for Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation reversed its decision and apologized, paving the way for approximately $600,000 in funding to pay for breast cancer screening and other routine examinations for lower-income women. Nancy G. Brinker, founder and CEO of the foundation said in a statement, [...]
It’s no secret, I’ve never respected the Susan G. Komen breast cancer foundation. I’ve come to loathe October and the pinkwashing that comes along with it. Everyone from NPR and the New York Daily News to Jezebel and MOMocrats has a story covering the fact that Planned Parenthood has lost its funding from Susan G. [...]
