Ain’t Sisterhood grand?
’Course, it isn’t any of my business. I’ll never need any of Planned Parenthood’s services, nor cause anyone else to need them. But in a world with 7 billion people in it, anyone with good sense has to wish Planned Parenthood well. I have sometimes thought, especially after finding a lump, wouldn’t it be weird if I got breast cancer — yeah, guys can get it — considering all the dire predictions about other disorders that people, many of which are dead, have offered me. So I had a good impression of the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Okay. If you haven’t heard, the compulsory childbearing faction in control of the US House of Representatives has trumped up an investigation of Planned Parenthood — a regular fishing expedition — because Planned Parenthood helps women not get pregnant and if necessary get unpregnant if that is the woman's choice. So suddenly the Susan G. Komen Foundation has decided that being investigated is too sordid — and they won’t give Plan Parenthood money to help poor women detect breast caner.
That’s about it. So if you have been doing Pink Ribbon stuff with the idea that you were supporting women, it actually turns out you have been supporting the compulsory-childbearing, “Back in Burqas” folks who have gained control at Susan G. Komen. Planned Parenthood plans to continue providing health care for poor women if they can, and they are who you should be supporting.
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