From MoveOn.org: “Susan G. Komen for the Cure just cut all its funding to Planned Parenthood for breast health screenings, bowing to anti-choice pressure and making breast health care suddenly inaccessible to many women.
Planned Parenthood health centers are often the main source of health care for women in underserved communities, and they provide 830,000 breast exams every year. 170,000 of these were funded through Komen, along with 6,400 mammogram referrals.3 Without Komen’s funding, many of these women could be unable to get the screenings and early detection of breast cancer that save lives.
It’s incredibly disappointing for an organization founded to protect women’s health to play politics with real women’s lives.”
What we lose, when we lose early access to breast health screening…
… I lost my mother. Here is an excerpt, followed by a link to the entire testimonial my father wrote shortly after her death.
Easter 1990
It was ten years ago this Easter that Karen and I met in Paris. And now she is gone. We lost a great battle against cancer. She is with the Lord to be sure, and that is a comfort, but she remains with the rest of us only in our memories, and that is sad. In this testimonial I want to recall some of those memories with you, and for those who are at some distance, tell you a little about the events that ended so sadly for us this past November.
Read more: Remembering Karen
by my father, Ken Daniel
