Pink is a color that DOES run

Pink is a color that DOES run

I’m sick of people who believe that life begins at conception and ends at pregnancy.

I’m tired of groups going after a woman’s right to choose and then blame the backlash on “politics.”

I’m tired of the backwards talk of the right.

I’m tired of The Komen Foundation blowing pink smoke while undermining women’s health.

Last April the Komen Foundation hired virulently anti-choice republican Karen Handel as Senior Vice President for Public Policy. Karen Handel has gone so far as to promise to eliminate funding for breast and cervical cancer screenings provided by the organization.

http://jezebel.com/5881057/susan-g-komen-foundation-bows-to-pro%20life-bullying-stops-contributing-to-planned-parenthood

And now, with Komen eliminating funding to Planned Parenthood, she has a chance to make good on that promise.

But the craven, money grubbing, hypocrisy doesn’t stop there.

A major sponsor of The Komen Foundation is Georgia-Pacific, a subsidiary of famously anti-regulation Koch Industries and major manufacturer of epoxy resins that contain BPA.

Numerous studies have shown that in human cell cultures, BPA has caused breast cancer cells to proliferate and has also reduced the effectiveness of chemotherapy.

And The Komen Foundation has made numerous statements denying the BPA-breast cancer connection.

And BPA makers, like Georgia-Pacific, use the statements made by The Komen Foundation to justify the continued production and sale of BPA containing plastics in consumer goods, in particular consumer goods used by women.

http://motherjones.com/environment/2011/09/breast-cancer-komen-bpa

So while they splash their nauseating pepto color across every product from shotgun shells to mp3 players they’ve handily hijacked all the woman-power they can and funneled it neatly into consumerism, while at the same time running interference for the kinds of pollutants that will make sure the cancer game has no end.

What does Komen give women?

A run for their money.