Fuck those pink ribbons.

The Susan G. Komen foundation is run by a bunch of assholes. They, perhaps the largest anti-breast cancer charitable organization, have pulled funding from Planned Parenthood, by far the largest the largest provider of cancer detecting services for low income women. Classy.

From Charlie Pierce: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/susan-g-komen-planned-parenthood-6649665.

Of course, the real reason is a politically motivated audit undertaken a part of a general jihad against Planned Parenthood undertaken by Florida congresscritter Cliff Stearns, the chairman of an oversight subcommittee and a real freaking prize in his own right. Stearns is the guy who added to the Zadroga bill, which provided for federal relief to the first responders who worked on the pile at Ground Zero in New York, the ludicrous requirement that the names of all applicants for such relief first be checked against all terrorist watch-list. He also once attacked PBS because the South African version of Sesame Street introduced a character who was HIV-positive. Like I said, a real prize. Nevertheless, he was enough to scare off the Komen group. It also seems that the Komen group's decision may have been influenced by a woman named Karen Handel, a wingnut anti-choicer who once ran for governor of Georgia, and who is now the group's vice-president for public policy. I would almost guarantee that Handel's hiring was one of those half-assed "common ground" initiatives popular among liberals, and among Democrats, who are tired of all the yelling about abortion and who believe, quite seriously, like children believe in the Easter Bunny, that there are reasonable people in the anti-choice community with whom they can (and should) deal.

Assholes.