All Gov Funded Organizations Providing Pro-Choice Options Under Attack

[Stephen Maturin]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

Judd Nelson's beard makes my pudenda feel kinda funny. I'm not sure if it's a good funny or a bad funny, though, so I'm going to ask Kurtwood Smith and Nick Offerman. They'll know. They always know.

Your poast has been forwarded to the Investigative Services Division of the Brotherhood Of Men Assessing All Conditions Of Pudendas (hereinafter "BOMAACOP"). If assessed as having sufficient merit to warrant serious testosteronal consideration, your issue will be scheduled for a public evidentiary hearing before a fully authorized BOMAACOP Pudendal Hearing Officer.

In the event you are dissatisfied with the PHO's adjudication of the good funny/bad funny issue, no one will care. Even so, you may appeal the PHO's determination to BOMAACOP's Executive Board. Only then is there any possibility of an on-the-merits review by Messrs. Smith and/or Offerman.

[livius drusus]

I would go through all of that twice just to hear Kurtwood Smith bang a gavel and say "Bitches, leave" to close the hearing.

[LadyShea]

Originally Posted by erimir

Komen Foundation Still Reeling From Planned Parenthood Fallout | Care2 Causes

[LadyShea]

Originally Posted by lisarea

Rush Limbaugh is 61 years old and he has been married something like five times, and he thinks that the more sex you have, the more hormonal contraceptives you have to take.

With no children though

[lisarea]

Yeah, and that's the thing. Unless Limbaugh has been shooting blanks all his life, he's been blissfully ignorant of everything his wives and other partners have been doing to prevent or terminate pregnancies. And even if he's impotent, odds are overwhelming that at least one of his wives has used hormonal birth control for some reason. (I was thinking about that recently, and at least half of the adult women I know well enough to know these things has taken hormonal birth control for a reason other than BC, including celibate women, gold star lesbians, everyone.)

He has no idea, and he has no idea that he has no idea. He still considers himself qualified to have opinions on these issues he doesn't understand at all.

[LadyShea]

Yep, I've taken it for cysts, for excessive bleeding, and it's part of IVF too.

[Ari]

I found this interesting, the Catholic church apparently both donates and receives donations from Komen.

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But a March 15th article by Reuters reveals that other groups, specifically the Catholic church and its bishops, had put pressure on the Komen Foundation. In particular, the 2011 announcement by Ohio bishops of a statewide policy banning church and parochial school donations to Komen “helped sway Komen’s leadership to cut funding to Planned Parenthood,” according to current and local Komen officials.

The relationship between the Catholic church and the Komen Foundation is indeed “complicated.” As Reuters details, the Catholic “simultaneously contributes… and receives grants” from the breast cancer charity. Catholic dioceses have contributed to the Komen Foundation, through fundraisers at the local level. At the same time, at least $17.6 million of the donations Komen receives has gone to Catholic universities, hospitals and charities in the US in recent years. For instance, Georgetown University, a Jesuit institution in Washington, has received $15 million in Komen grants. In 2011, Catholic institutions overall received $7.4 million from Komen, substantially more than the $684,000 Planned Parenthood received that year.

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[ChuckF]

Komen president resigning, founder shifting roles - CBS News

The president and the founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure are stepping down, the nation's largest breast cancer foundation said in announcing a major leadership shake-up. The high-profile departures come amid continuing fallout from Komen's decision earlier this year to briefly end funding for Planned Parenthood.

President Liz Thompson will leave Komen next month and founder Nancy Brinker, who has long been the public face of the charity, will relinquish her chief executive's role for a position focused on fundraising and strategic planning, according to a statement released Wednesday by the Dallas-based organization.