Susan Komen Foundation backs down.

After great media pressure pushing to connect the pink ribbons not just with breast cancer, but with abortion support of Planned Parenthood, they release a rather interesting statement:

“We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving lives,” the announcement said.

I wonder how many years it will take for the liberals to be honest about how many little lives, boys and girls, abortion kills every year. Of course, like civilian collateral damage, those numbers simply don't count in some circles.

I do wish liberal men like Rosenthal would stop speaking on behalf of all women though. Plenty of those, who might support breast cancer reseach but not at the cost of pitting this disease against that, will be very much turned off to the notion that "womens rights" necessarily include terminating life.

Before we move on to other topics, it’s worth noting a few things. Abortion is legal. It is a safe medical procedure. And it is rare. That’s exactly how it should be. Government has no business violating women’s privacy rights and making decisions about their reproductive rights. It is the worst kind of “big government” imaginable.
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The Planned Parenthood flap threatened to put a stain on the Komen foundation’s reputation, and on its signature pink ribbon logo. That logo has become a major marketing device for an extraordinary range of products and services.

Enjoy your yogurt cup, Mr. Rosenthal. And your self-satisfied notions that you're... "helping" American women. (Just don't think about all the potentially disabled baby girls you're glad to see put down, so that their mothers are ... free to be. Ps. It's not such a "safe medical procedure" for the aborted growing child-to-be ... I guess as a man, you don't really get that.)

ADDED: Re. "Government has no business violating women’s privacy rights and making decisions about their reproductive rights."

How far do you suppose this extends? Does the government have the right to invade a woman's privacy and paternalistically impose health insurance purchase requirements on her behalf? Does the government have the right to tell a Catholic working woman that she must participate in a plan that pays for -- using her own premium dollars -- the contraceptive choices of co-workers? Why not ... go all the way, and allow true freedom?

Why do the Rosenthal men of the world get to be the deciders on behalf of equally intelligent women who would like to make their own personal medical choices on their own behalf, no government help or assistance from the Rosenthals of the world needed? If women have the right to decide whether an unborn child lives or dies, based on the flimsiest of convenient justifications, shouldn't another more conservative woman have the right to decide what her hard-earned dollars pay for, or not?