All Gov Funded Organizations Providing Pro-Choice Options Under Attack

[seebs]

Originally Posted by Miss Shelby

well in that case they should provide low cost referrals for prostate cancer, as well.

Not a big risk for women, and PP is mostly women's health.

[Jerome]

Originally Posted by seebs

Not a big risk for women, and PP is mostly women's health.

How do women get preference for government monies?

[Ari]

Possibly because medicine has long ignored women, giving preferential treatment to men's health so womens health has been playing catchup.
Women are 51% of the population and all.

[Watser?]

Women produce families. Why are you against families, Jerome?

[LadyShea]

There was a link to PP's men's health pages and list of stuff they provide for men on the previous page of this here thread.

Men's Sexual Health

Services offered at Planned Parenthood health centers vary by location. Some of the services include

checkups for reproductive or sexual health problems
colon cancer screening
erectile dysfunction services, including education, exams, treatment, and referral
jock itch exam and treatment
male infertility screening and referral
premature ejaculation services, including education, exams, treatment, and referral
routine physical exams
testicular cancer screenings
prostate cancer screenings
urinary tract infections testing and treatment
vasectomy

[seebs]

Fair enough. I just wouldn't be offended if a reproductive health place focused on women's health, since women are the ones who reproduce.

[godfry n. glad]

Well...usually with some assistance on the inception end.

I also note that the list of men's health services does not include STD screening. I'll bet they provide it, but they don't advertise it?

[LadyShea]

STD screenings are not a gender specific service, and they offer that at all PPs as far as I know.

[godfry n. glad]

Originally Posted by LadyShea

STD screenings are not a gender specific service, and they offer that at all PPs as far as I know.

Okay, I figured as much...But checkups for 'reproductive or sexual health problems', 'colon cancer screening', 'routine physical exams', and 'urinary tract infections testing and treatment', all listed, are not particularly gender-specific services, either.

[LadyShea]

Well, STD's would probably fall under "reproductive and sexual health problems" but yeah they might want to be more explicit.

[Watser?]

Oh lookie who decided to wade in:

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says that it’s “wrong” for organizations like Susan G. Komen for the Cure to fund Planned Parenthood’s breast cancer screenings for poor women.

Romney: Komen ‘wrong’ to fund Planned Parenthood’s breast cancer screenings | The Raw Story

[godfry n. glad]

Originally Posted by Watser?

Oh lookie who decided to wade in:

Romney: Komen ‘wrong’ to fund Planned Parenthood’s breast cancer screenings | The Raw Story

Thank you, Willard. That was helpful.

[ChuckF]

Originally Posted by ChuckF

Countdown to Karen Handel resigning.

Komen Foundation VP resigns over Planned Parenthood funding reversal - NY Daily News

Karen Handel, executive with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity, announced her resignation as vice president for public policy Tuesday, in a letter to Komen officials, after a dispute over funding for Planned Parenthood.

[Demimonde]

I found a new blog today that I am absolutely in love with.

Margaret and Helen- "Pink Razors"

[erimir]

Originally Posted by ChuckF

Komen Foundation VP resigns over Planned Parenthood funding reversal - NY Daily News

[lisarea]

Ha ha, this is pretty good:

Brilliant Democratic State Senator Tacks 'Every Sperm is Sacred' Clause to Oklahoma's Personhood Bill

That link should not be construed as an endorsement of Jezebel.

[BrotherMan]

Since 2005 or so, a friend and I have been engaged in a fierce war. It all started when our workplace sponsored a breast cancer awareness month. Every female worker was presented with a few gifts care of SGKftC. (At least, I think it was just female workers, I don't recall exactly.) My lady friend hated the breast cancer awareness. Not just the swag, but the whole idea that it was at all necessary. I told her about my experience with the cancer and some random statistics but that didn't sway her.

One of the swag items was a big ol honkin pink coffee cup. We took turns hiding it around the office and lab waiting for the other person to find it. Ha ha! You got me! And on and on it went. This led to us trading the pink products as gifts. A favorite of mine was the tennis balls I got for her, and also a pen she got for me. There have been other things now lost to time.

I've been watching this whole thing with some detachment. But today, I happened across this video and it reminded me, in a big way, exactly what is at stake in this whole mess. Real people. Real people like my mom, who could afford doctors and treatment, but a lot of women can't.

What Breast Cancer is, and is not! - YouTube

Then I sat down and wrote this email to my friend.

It seems our War of the Pink Products should come to an end.

A secret thrill I got out of our breast cancer battle was that I got you to buy a few pink things, which in turn supported a cause you otherwise wouldn't have. As the news broke about SGKftC and their playing politics with their funds, I couldn't help but wonder how this would affect our rivalry. I could hope that not everything that was pink or had a pink ribbon associated with it wasn't about SGKftC, but because they are assholes about "for the Cure" and all the pink things, it doesn't look like my hope will be realized at any time.

I thought I told you once why I didn't think breast cancer awareness wasn't a joke. (But suck it, because I'm saying it again!)For me, it was a very real thing. My mother had a single mastectomy when I was a little boy. I was young enough that I was likely shielded from the worst of it, so it didn't seem all that traumatic from my perspective. I don't know if it was life threatening, but it certainly was life changing.

In the long term I want cancer to go away. A slightly less altruistic desire is to help see that breast cancer goes away. But bringing this desire down to the most practical level, I want anyone who is at risk to be able to get help regardless of who they are, how much money they do or do not have. I was happy to support SGKftC because I thought it was doing some good, even in a very small way. And it was very easy. And I had a good laugh with a great friend to top it all off. And now that I find out they SGKftC is trying to play games with peoples' lives on top of being real assholes with the money they receive, well, I have to say fuck them.

So, it is with a heavy heart that I try to clear my conscience and declare a truce. Let the hostilities between us be at an end.

So, now you can see that not only did SGKftC fuck things up in a big way, they also screwed up something small. Imagine that. Bort gives up on jokes.

Fuck you, SGK.

[lisarea]

At CPAC, leaders urge steering birth control conversation toward abortion | The American Independent

So, now that birth control is called abortion, this is also relevant to this thrad:

President Obama Stands Up for Women’s Health… AGAIN. | Angry Black Lady Chronicles

It really warms the cockles of my heart to see the conservatives making a gigantic platform out of opposing birth control. The approval ratings of birth control are like the approval ratings for ice cream or the sun or something. Fucking everybody loves birth control. Ladies, Catholics, and basically everyone who is not--I dunno--Snidely Whiplash or something. And shit, not even all of them. Fucking eugenicists love birth control!

Keep up the good work, wingnuts!

[freemonkey]

Originally Posted by lisarea

So, now that birth control is called abortion,....

I've been dealing with that kind of attitude from some people for a few years now. An evangelical neighbor of mine is now circulating petitions supporting the Catholic Church against this most recent "dismantling of religious rights in America!!!" I have to be very careful of what I say to her about this, so I'm just saying "no, thank you." Is verreh hard.

It really warms the cockles of my heart to see the conservatives making a gigantic platform out of opposing birth control. The approval ratings of birth control are like the approval ratings for ice cream or the sun or something. Fucking everybody loves birth control. Ladies, Catholics, and basically everyone who is not--I dunno--Snidely Whiplash or something. And shit, not even all of them. Fucking eugenicists love birth control!

Keep up the good work, wingnuts!

A person my husband has been debating has told him that, among other atrocities, liberals just love eugenics. We have been wracking our brains trying to figure out wtf he was talking about. Now we know. Birth control. Thank you.

[lisarea]

There's also that thing where they say that abortion is genocide of black babies, so he might even mean that.

[chunksmediocrites]

As a number of people including Kristof have pointed out:

What if organizations affiliated with Jehovah’s Witnesses insisted on health insurance that did not cover blood transfusions? What if ultraconservative Muslim or Jewish organizations objected to health care except at sex-segregated clinics?

Or John Cole:

I seriously wish other religions would get in on the act. I wish Keith Ellison would start sponsoring bills that allow insurers to cut people’s benefits if they don’t pray to Mecca a certain number of times a day. Or someone Jewish proposing a bill requiring circumcisions or you can’t get health insurance. Just flood the zone with bullshit so people can see how out of control our concept of religious liberty has become.

Digby made a good point with her post Borgia Catholics, where she lays out specifics:

Catholic institutions all over the country have been providing birth control coverage and the Supreme Court declined to hear their objections. Repeatedly. Maybe that will change now that it's federal, but the fact is that Catholic organizations are already providing birth control coverage to their employees and have been for years:

And this:
Think Progress:

[Pyrrho]

FWIW

Double X Science: The real scandal: science denialism at Susan G. Komen for the Cure®

[ChuckF]

GOP Goes With ‘Pompous Sausagefest’ Theme For Contraception Hearing



Haha, it is 2012 and the GOP is conducting hearings about contraceptives (but mainly for ladies), for the lady vote, I guess.

[Qingdai]

Dude, I was going to post that.

"Uterus free" glad to see they have such strong opinions on my ladyparts.

[lisarea]

I am going to tell you guys a secret, and I really don't think this is unique to me.

When I see these creepy ugly old guys talking about like sex and reproduction and stuff, even beyond the horror at the things they're saying, at a purely visceral level, I'm all like EWEWWWEWWWSHUTUPOHGODSTOPEWWWWWWW

I mean, look at those nasty old men up there, sitting there thinking about lady parts and making up rules about them and stuff. So so gross.