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Old 02-03-2012, 01:53 PM
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Old 02-03-2012, 01:56 PM
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Summary? Something?

I heard a 5-second teaser on the morning news. Something about cutting funding to PP? Maybe related to late-term abortions?
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Who cares? It's a terrible organization that does more harm than good for cancer research by funnelling way too much money to an easily detectable, easily survivable cancer instead of to the more dangerous cancers.
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They cut funding to planned parenthood, people whined, and so they restored funding.
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Well obviously SGK people are bible-thumping morans who think life begins when you buy a girl a drink and want rape victims to give birth to 13 lb twins who will themselves grow up to be rapists, and obviously PP are baby-killing psychopaths who get moist/erect at the thought of vaccuming out brains during a partial birth abortion. Duh.
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They decided to stop giving money to PP and then they decided that was a bad decision so they changed their minds. What it did for me was make me realize that they were giving money to non-cancer stuff which kind of annoyed me so I will proably give them less next year, than in previous years.
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Well obviously SGK people are bible-thumping morans who think life begins when you buy a girl a drink and want rape victims to give birth to 13 lb twins who will themselves grow up to be rapists, and obviously PP are baby-killing psychopaths who get moist/erect at the thought of vaccuming out brains during a partial birth abortion. Duh.
I don't think we need to point out stuff that is this obvious.
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They decided to stop giving money to PP and then they decided that was a bad decision so they changed their minds. What it did for me was make me realize that they were giving money to non-cancer stuff which kind of annoyed me so I will proably give them less next year, than in previous years.
I think it was for cancer screenings.
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Who cares? It's a terrible organization that does more harm than good for cancer research by funnelling way too much money to an easily detectable, easily survivable cancer instead of to the more dangerous cancers.
And apparently they have spent a lot of money pushing suboptimal treatment of breast cancer, too. For instance, they fought to keep some drug approved after a bunch of big studies showed it didn't actually work, and they continie to fight for more and earlier mammograms, even though the evidence suggests that in general, they are a waste of money and lead to a lot of false positives, with the concurrent emotional distress, expensive medical followup, and time off work for that medical followup.

(at least, that's what some other breast cancer specialist on NPR claimed.)
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