There's not much I can add to this column by Jacquielynn Floyd, which appeared in today's Dallas Morning News: Komen for the Cure’s new fashion statement: the pink burqa
Excerpts and commentary over the Fleur de Kos...
In the print edition of the Dallas Morning News, Floyd's column was headlined "Komen's signature pink now tinged with yellow," which pretty much illustrates the content of the editorial.
Well, the Komen people aren’t the first to scatter like a flock of frightened turkeys in the scary current atmosphere of abortion politics.
That path has been blazed by a steady stream of fraidy-cat politicians rushing to duck the collateral demonization of expressing even the mildest support for Planned Parenthood.
Yeah. Why the fear? I'm so ready to hear from the politician who will say, "Yes, I support Planned Parenthood? What do you support, un-planned parenthood?"
Floyd goes on to cite information on how much money Komen has given to Planned Parenthood for the purpose of cancer screenings, assuring readers that none of the money went to abortion. She continues with the true nature of the "investigation."
Citing a Florida congressman’s draconian probe into how Planned Parenthood has spent every dime over the last decade, Komen officials bleated about a new bylaw withholding funds from any agency under government investigation.
“Grant-making decisions are not about politics,” a Komen spokeswoman told CBS News in a laughably inadequate response to the furor over Tuesday’s announcement.
I’m hard-pressed to see what else they could be about, since Komen offers no sensible rationale for cutting off Planned Parenthood, which, in some communities, is the only place women have to go for preliminary cancer screenings and mammogram referrals.
Floyd mentions the internet flurry of opinion that Komen has made a deliberate right-turn by hiring Karen Handel as senior vice president for public policy, and comments.
Maybe so. But it’s equally possible that, like many others who have caved before them, the Komen people are simply scared, wimping out before the onslaught of yodeling ideologues who want Government Off Our Backs — except when it comes to women’s most private, intimate personal business.
The comments on the Dallas Morning News editorial pages are running overwhelmingly against the right-wing freaks, which gives me hope for my little corner of the world. Now, if we could just get the politicians and CEOs to stand up to the extremists, we might get somewhere.