They say everything’s big in Texas, but they may want to look again this week, as the budget for women’s healthcare has been slashed to pieces. This was not an angst-filled legislative move to offset sinking revenues. The money – available through Federal Medicaid funding – is sitting there waiting for them, with their name on [...]
Editor’s Note: Robin Bravender of Politico reports of a recent rise in activity – specifically fundraising and membership enrollment – in women’s groups such as EMILY’s List, whose participation has doubled in the past 18 months to more than 1 million members. The increase is attributed to the political attention around “women’s issues” such abortion, contraception [...]
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, [...]
DALLAS, February 3, 2012 – We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives. The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been [...]
Laura Bassett and Lisa Belkin of HuffingtonPost.com report that Dr. Kathy Plesser, a Manhattan radiologist on the medical advisory board of Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s New York chapter will resign from her position unless Komen reverses its decision to withdraw grant money from Planned Parenthood. Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation’s [...]
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. [...]
