Run for that Cure!

Here's a great piece about a study done by the Mayo Clinic linking the use of the birth control pill and breast cancer. Here's the conclusion of the Mayo Clinic study.

"The research concluded that the risk for breast cancer is increased by 44 percent for women who take the Pill before conceiving their first child"

So now I'm sure you are thinking the Susan G Koman Breast Cancer Foundation would be flooding the airwaves educating women about the risks of the pill. After all, they are constantly releasing information about the use of certain detergents, eating of certain foods, etc. where there may be a link to the consumption of those products and breast cancer.

Here's a list of risk factors noted on the Koman site. You tell me, do you see consumption of birth control pills anywhere on the site?

What do they do in response to this information? Nothing. Unless you consider a $25,000 donation to Planned Parenthood, an organization that hands out these pills like dinner mints, something.

What in the hell could Planned Parenthood do with this money that has any relation to the Koman mission?

I guess it's more important to be politically correct than actually save women from the hells of breast cancer.