February 1, 2012

Today I learned that the Susan G. Komen foundation has decided to end their long-standing partnership with Planned Parenthood and stop all funding to the organization which provides mammograms, breast and cervical cancer screenings and related health care to low income woman across the country. I am deeply sad and disappointed to learn this.

As a result, hundreds of thousands of dollars will no longer be going to breast-cancer related services that were helping the people most in need. It seems that SGK has decided taking a stand against abortion (only one of the NUMEROUS health care services provided by PP) is more important than helping to prevent breast cancer.

This is political warfare of the most depressing kind. Let's provide healthcare and let each individual decide how best to make use of it based on their own needs and beliefs. Stand up for what you believe is right with the choices you make in your own life rather than making those choices for others. I believe I will now retire my SGK fundraiser T froms its current rotation in my sleepwear and avoid them in the future by supporting alternative breast cancer groups.

On a less serious note, as it is the first I thought it fitting to check in with friend-of-the-blog Ginger Chicken, who began this journey with us when she was still brand new. She is now one month old and is starting to get her grown-up feathers. 2-3 more weeks and she will move out of her little heated box and into the real world with the big girls. It's amazing how much one can grow in just a month.