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I disagree, and I think GMMAC's picking up on the Orwellian use of the word "truth" in this little extravaganza was perceptive.

Feminist propaganda is not harmless. It is insidious. Yes, they've learned to "dress it up," so to speak, in attractive clothes. And to get us to say "What's the big deal if it makes women take better care of themselves?"

Well, that is not the real agenda.

Feminists have pulled many health care scams. First, they successfully labeled abortion as a "women's health" issue (and I guess it is if we're talking about half the babies who are aborted).

Then, feminists shrieked and screamed (falsely) that men were for years the only beneficiaries of government funded research, and that women have been discriminated against. Result: Money is taken away from important research and thrown at scientifically flimsy, but politically popular projects (e.g., the discredited breast cancer "clusters" on Long Island).

But when it comes to certain threats against women's health exclusively, e.g. the possibility that abortion causes breast cancer - oh, no!

Not only dare we not fund THAT, but we're also not even allowed to even warn women that it might be something to consider before having an abortion.

SO much for helping women learn to take better care of themselves.

The politicization of health care and related research is the real issue.

Surely, if the government is going to be involved, conservatives believe that whatever public monies are spent must directly correspond to legitimate need.
Unfortunately, more and more it's the squeaky - and usually politically correct - wheel which gets the attention and the resulting taxpayer funding.
Women should be rightly up in arms that, relative to the number of deaths attributable to each, AIDS related research currently receives 4 to 5 times the dollars allotted to breast cancer. Worse still, prostate cancer research, on this same comparative basis, receives mere peanuts.

but we're also not even allowed to even warn women that it might be something to consider before having an abortion.

Who says you can't warn women about the dangers of the connection between breast cancer and abortion? You'll have to pay for your own 'soapbox', but there's nothing wrong with that. Just make sure when you do, you have your science duckies all in a row because you'll be eviscerated by the press and everyone else. The danger comes when having had an abortion with your very first pregnancy. I don't believe the link is there with abortions after the first full term pregnancy. But since the abortion before full term pregnancy involves almost every woman who has had an abortion, it's very relevant.

No, it's not fair that women don't have these warnings because feminists and liberals in the media don't want to do anything that will weaken their vaunted 'right to choose', but we can do all we can outside their purview to make the facts known to as many women as possible.