NOW can we say that the fetophiles are just plain and simply anti-women

They hate us.

They really, really hate us, with our girly parts that smell funny and look like wounds and ZOMG maybe it has teeth. They hate us because they like to look at boobs. They hate us because we make them end up like Mark Sanford, blubbering into a microphone about his soulmate against a backdrop of the dying embers of his political career. They hate us because our bodies do strange things that they don't understand but they know they came from. They hate us because we dare to have independent thoughts.

They really hate us.

You thought if we just tried to find "common ground" on abortion, that would satisfy them? Well, now not only do they want to ban contraception in Florida, they're coming after your mammograms.

It's not because they are concerned about possible health risk from mammograms. No, they're going after the Susan Komen Foundation for refusing to perpetuate their deranged, utterly false and scientifically discredited notion that there is a connection between abortion and breast cancer:

Antiabortion activists have called SKG a "menace to women," Bader reports, which, obviously, is like calling basil a menace to linguine. Their beef: Advocates for women with breast cancer don't warn women about "the abortion/breast cancer connection." Which, of course, is because there is no such thing. Not that the facts have stopped people like Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, from saying things like, "Women suffer tremendously when 'breast cancer awareness groups' keep us in the dark about breast physiology, especially when millions unwittingly damage their health by choosing abortion." (Or Angela Lanfranchi, M.D., from publishing reprehensible "studies" like this new one in the non-peer-reviewed Linacre Quarterly, which -- where shall I start? -- provides no actual data and no real explanation for why mothers get breast cancer or miscarriages don't seem to be a problem or ... feh. We're not going to dignify it with a rebuttal.)

The Komen haters have also (long) trotted out the association between Komen and Planned Parenthood -- which, to the radically antiabortion, is basically the Death Star. Diabolically enough, some Komen affiliates provide grants to local Planned Parenthood clinics, supporting -- exclusively -- breast cancer screening and educational programming for un- and under-insured women.

Silly as it all sounds, Bader reports that Komen staff "have had to respond to anti-choice criticism" -- instead of to, say, breast cancer -- "and recently hired two Catholic ethicists to rebut Diocesan efforts to stop the faithful from supporting SKG."

When I need commentary on such things, I go to Amanda Marcotte, who as usual does not disappoint in her exposé, The Cracker Taliban saves the boob babies.