I was up late last night because I was a guest on a hip-hop radio show in NYC. Shout out to Steph of The Steph Lova Program for having me on the show. We had so much fun. It didn’t feel like the normal stiff radio interview. It felt more like a party. The crew was dancing and having a blast. That’s creativity at it’s best. Fun times! I’m paying for it now though. My eyes are half-open, or should I say half-closed as I write this post. If there are any typos or any senseless rhetoric in this blog post, I will blame it on my being a male model. Male models are not supposed to be the smartest anyway! hahahahaaa!! Since I’ve already mentioned males, the topic of my blog today is dumb men sticking their noses where they do not belong!!!
Well, let’s get down to business. I read an interesting article last when I got fom the radio station last night that caught and held my attention. The nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which has spent nearly $2 billion over the past 30 years for breast cancer education, health services, research, and advocacy, has announced that it will end its longtime partnership with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The announcement has sparked bitter debate among representatives from all concerned parties, highlighting the ongoing debate over abortion.
Once again, men have stuck their noses where they do not belong. In my opinion, men should have no say with regards to a woman’s body. Until men are able to carry babies for nine months and then give birth, they should really keep their mouths shut when it comes to pro-life or pro-choice issues. The key factor behind Komen’s decision to split from Planeed Parenthood is an audit launched by Rep. Cliff Stearns (a man), chairman of the Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, to determine whether public money had been spent on abortions over the last decade.
Planned Parenthood, currently the largest provider of reproductive health services in the United States, is widely known for helping women to obtain abortions and contraceptives. But those services, despite their high profile, account for only 38 percent (PDF) of the organization’s work. And though Republicans often portray Planned Parenthood as strictly an abortion provider, using the phrase to incite anger among pro-life constituents and gain support for cuts to federal funding — it comes largely through the Title X and Medicaid programs — the fact is that the organization devotes most of its money and manpower to screening for breast, cervical, and testicular cancers; treating menopause; testing for sexually transmitted diseases; and more. The money provided by Susan G. Komen For the Cure in recent years was used for breast-cancer screening and other breast-health services for low income, uninsured and under-insured women.
Cecile Richards, the president of The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) said that “it’s hard to understand how an organisation with whom we share a mission of saving women’s lives could have bowed to this kind of bullying. It’s really hurtful”. But the truth of the matter is that when an organisation reaches the size of the Susan G. Komen For the Cure, a multibillion dollar organisation, you have to bow to politics. The last I checked, men still run the politics of the world. So, while these men are busy staring at goats, trying to control issues that do not concern them, women suffer. Cancer does not care if you are pro-choice, anti-choice, progressive or conservative. Victims of cancer don’t give a damn about people’s politics.
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Ngo Okafor
Excerpts from The Atlantic article written by Nicholas Jackson
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