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Title: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: Aristotelian on February 03, 2012, 04:48:42 AM
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ProfessionalLeftist (1,996 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar

and/or replace with a more appropriate one, given recent events.

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CaliforniaPeggy (93,419 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

1. I absolutely agree!

And I'm thinking they most likely will.


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Hatchling (1,038 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

3. I agree

It's not appropriate for this site anymore.

They are truly disgusting sometimes - it's not good enough to work against breast cancer, have to support child-murder at the same time...

Fortunately some are able to see beyond it...but only partially.

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Behind the Aegis (22,773 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

2. I disagree.

Adding a new avatar to represent Planned Parenthood would be cool. I saw someone suggest a birth control pill/condom. Despite the horrible move on part of the Komen Foundation, the pink ribbion represents "breast cancer awareness," not the Komen Foundation, even if they are the ones who started it.

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Violet_Crumble (24,559 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

4. Exactly. The pink ribbon is about breast cancer awareness....

Until yesterday, I'd never heard of that Kormen Foundation, but for a long time I've been aware of the pink ribbon and that it represents breast cancer. It's the logo of the National Breast Cancer Foundation here in Australia, and it's a universal symbol. The ribbon avatar shouldn't be removed, but if there's not already a Planned Parenthood avatar (they've got a logo that looks like it'd make a great avatar), one should be added...

DUmp Link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/124039731)

Good job the DUmmies are a marginal side-issue in America, I saw a post on a friend's Facebook wall which said that donations to the Komel Foundation have doubled since the announcement.
Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: formerlurker on February 03, 2012, 05:15:57 AM
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At the top of Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams sounded the alarm: "Caught in the middle. Two of the biggest names in women's health, tonight in a bitter fight over money and it may be thousands of women who pay the biggest price." In a later tease of the upcoming report he made no secret of who he thought the villain of the story was: "A decision that's making a lot of women furious at the world's largest breast cancer organization. Why did it cut off funds for critical breast cancer screenings?"

One thing Williams failed to mention was the fact that Planned Parenthood does not actually provide mammograms.

http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2012/20120202050847.aspx

Go to link, and listen to the tape: 

http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2011/03/31/planned-parenthood-did-we-say-we-do-mammograms/
Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: diesel driver on February 03, 2012, 05:16:56 AM
I see what the DUmmies have their panties in a wad over concerning the Komen Foundation.

They ended their association with Planned Parenthood on January 31, 2012.

Boo-Freaking-Hoo!   :bawl:
Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: WinOne4TheGipper on February 03, 2012, 06:02:31 AM
I'm pretty sure that we can give them ideas for Planned Murderhood avatars.
Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: Ballygrl on February 03, 2012, 07:34:44 AM
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One thing Williams failed to mention was the fact that Planned Parenthood does not actually provide mammograms.

This needs to be repeated!
Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: Karin on February 03, 2012, 07:58:10 AM
Planned Parenthood does not actually provide mammograms.
Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on February 03, 2012, 08:30:07 AM
DU: Where they throw the bathwater out with the pre-born baby
Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: jukin on February 03, 2012, 10:43:23 AM
Planned Parenthood does not actually provide mammograms.

AND

Komen Foundation donations up 100% in the past two days.

Decent and civilized people win again.
Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: NHSparky on February 03, 2012, 10:50:35 AM
It gets worse, people...Komen pulled a rope-a-dope...

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/02/report-komen-reverses-decision-to-cut-planned-parenthood-funding/1

Komen drops decision to cut Planned Parenthood funding

The Susan G. Komen Foundation has reversed its decision to cut funding for Planned Parenthood and apologized "to the American public," the Associated Press reports.

The statement issued by founder and CEO Nancy Brinker and the Susan G. Komen Board of Directors, says the foundation will immediately get in touch with its network and key supporters "to refocus our attention on our mission and get back to doing our work."

"The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen," the statement says. "We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not."

Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: commonguymd on February 03, 2012, 11:06:39 AM
What does killing the unborn have to do with pink ribbons and breast cancer?
Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: Chris_ on February 03, 2012, 11:52:07 AM
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ProfessionalLeftist (1,996 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar

and/or replace with a more appropriate one, given recent events.
It's just a piece of cloth. (http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,69084.0.html)

Hypocrites.
Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: BEG on February 03, 2012, 12:18:51 PM
I still don't understand their lust for abortion.  I can understand being pro-choice to a certain extent, some people think women shouldn't be "punished" with a baby.  Some don't think the baby is a baby (or they do but they dont care)' but they are past being pro-choice, they ridicule women who decide to keep their baby or have more than their "allotment".  They are PRO-abortion not pro-choice and they are rabid in their view.
Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: Karin on February 03, 2012, 12:21:50 PM
I think they believe the allottment should be zero.

Wonder how all those people feel who just donated a lot of money yesterday? 
Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: BEG on February 03, 2012, 12:23:20 PM
Gross, Jehmu Greene is on Fox right now grinning like a Cheshire cat about this. She is demogoging this issue. She makes me sick.
Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: Maxiest on February 03, 2012, 12:34:25 PM
Well they Komen has really screwed that Charity up for good.  All those people that donated the last few days should sue the heck out of the foundation, although I am not sure there is any legal grounds for it.
Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: Karin on February 03, 2012, 01:47:51 PM
BEG, I cannot STAND her.  I race for the remote. 
Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: delilahmused on February 03, 2012, 02:10:27 PM
When I originally heard this story I thought it was absolutely appropriate thing for Komen to do, just to be true to their cause since there's a good amount of evidence linking abortions and breast cancer. (Dear Beth: I did not get this from Fox News...but I confess I didn't check with the goddess of horizontal movements).

Cindie
Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: GCBill on February 03, 2012, 04:04:20 PM
I'm pretty sure that we can give them ideas for Planned Murderhood avatars.

Here's some for them.

Warning: Very graphic and heart wrenching.

http://www.100abortionpictures.com/Aborted_Baby_Pictures_Abortion_Photos/
Title: Re: Admins: Request to remove pink ribbon avatar
Post by: dixierose on February 03, 2012, 04:12:40 PM
I have a question. When people donate to Koman, they are donating for breast cancer research. How does giving money to planned parenthood help breast cancer research? I have a step mom who is a breast cancer survivor; but I think my donations will go to the American Cancer Society from now on.