Go Ahead, Take the Graphic
EDITED TO ADD: (A few hours after I posted this, and less than 24 hours after vowing "we will never bow down," the Susan G. Komen fund bowed down. However, they are not to be trusted to behave, so I'm still going to refuse to support them in any way. I'll post more on their more secret problems later.)
- "Here we are in the 21st century... and we're arguing about reproductive care and contraception... Before, we were arguing about abortion, now suddenly we're even arguing about whether a woman has a right to family planning. And of course, if you have full contraception and family planning, then you reduce the number of abortions, which is everybody's goal. And so, so you know, I'm happy to debate anybody at any time about should we have birth control and contraception.
And I think that's what you've been seeing in the last few days, that the American public is waking up and saying, 'Wait a minute, now you're saying we can't have breast cancer screening because an organization with its own private money gives a full range of reproductive care? That's really crazy. And I think finally the American public is saying you know what, everyone agrees we should have pregnancy prevention, and family planning, and breast cancer screening, and what is this war against women's health that we have going on?'"
- -- Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) February 2, 2012
on The Rachel Maddow Show