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The truth is that anti-Planned-Parenthood sentiments aren’t about abortion; they’re about hostility to women, and particularly to female sexuality. Abortion makes up 3% of its services. Cancer screening and prevention are 17%. Since it’s more politically tenable to go after the services utilized by lower-income women who have less of a voice in the mainstream, groups like Planned Parenthood are an easy target. Women will be needlessly harmed by this: Socioenonomic factors influence breast cancer mortality rates, and the low-income women who the group serves are the ones most in need. According to Komen itself, while white women are more likely to get breast cancer, African-American and Latina women — who are disproportionately poor — are more likely to die from it, in large part because of lack of screening and late diagnosis.

(Source: feministhemes)