This month is Breast cancer awareness month, and everyone will be whole hog on going with the pink ribbons and everything....but if you ask me to contribute this month, my answer will be "no"....
It's not that I'm for breast cancer or anything...but here are a couple of thoughts that I have....
The wearing of pink...a nice thing...but then I remember that just a couple of months down here in Texas when they were having the debate on SB2, that pink was hijacked by pro-abortion state Senator Wendy Davis...she stood and filibustered for 11 hours against this bill while wearing pink sneakers to make her feel more comfortable....but it also reminded me of the vastly unreported (by the mass media) link between abortion and breast cancer. There has been study after study that have shown the ABC (Abortion Breast Cancer) link, yet these studies have been pooh-poohed by the media, So now, pink has more a connotation of pro-abortion support, rather than fighting breast cancer.
Then there is the matter of where the money is going to...the Susan G. Komen foundation...now the Komen foundation's stated goal is to eliminate breast cancer and that is a fine and dandy goal. HOWEVER....
1. Some of the funds that go to to SGKF are then used to fund Planned Parenthood (which despite the name has become nothing more than wanting nothing to do with parenthood, but rather supporting abortion on such a mass scale that it would make the dictators of the 20th century proud)...so my question is-aren't you being a little hypocritical in saying you want to prevent one type of death, while promoting another?
2. If you were to ask the average person who gives to SGKF (and probably even SGKF people), whether they were against bullying, they would probably say "Yes". However last June, SKGF did precisely that in alliance with PP.... In February of 2012, SGKF decided that it wanted to be "neutral" in the abortion debate, so they decided to cut ties with Planned Parenthood, but then Planned Parenthood came back with such a backlash that three days after making the announcement, SKGF backtracked and restored their funding of PP and then SKGF turned on the Vice-President who had made the recommendation and forced her to resign her position within the foundation.
So if you are giving this month in the fight against breast cancer make sure that the gift that you give ONLY supports the fight against breast cancer, not anything else...and don't buy into the hype, give because you want to give, not because everyone is shouting at you that this is the right thing to do....
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