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"Did you know that Planned Parenthood provides 830,000 breast exams every year? Well, more than 170,000 of those have just been taken away--the Susan G. Komen for the Cure just cut all its funding to Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is the main source of health care for a lot of women in underserved locations--losing those screenings means that many of them are losing the chance to catch breast cancer in its early stages. Why were the funds revoked? Komen says this that it recently changed its funding guidelines to exclude any organization under investigation by Congress (an investigation into Planned Parenthood had been opened by Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns). For its part, Planned Parenthood says that Komen was under pressure from anti-abortion groups--and some of those groups definitely reacted happily that Komen had pulled the funding. The Alliance Defense Fund offered praise to the organization &amp;quot;for seeing the contradiction between its lifesaving work and its relationship with an abortionist that has ended millions of lives.&amp;quot; Oh boy. Stay tuned. PS: Planned Parenthood has an online petition here. Outrage? Disappointment? Something else? Share your thoughts and feelings here! More on breast cancer: * Giuliana Rancic to Undergo Double Mastectomy * Wow, She Live-Tweeted Her First Mammogram and Found Out She Has Breast Cancer * Researchers Find a Link Between Alcohol and Breast Cancer--What Every Woman Needs to Know Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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