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Komen Foundation Exploits Breast Cancer Mission to Make War on Planned Parenthood

Jodi L. Jacobson, RH Reality Check. February 1, 2012.

The Komen Foundation has been infiltrated by right-wing ideologues who saw to the withdrawal of support for breast exams at Planned Parenthood clinics.

Our Right to Privacy Has Been Systematically Shrunk. What's Left?

Patricia J. Williams, The Nation. November 28, 2011.

If the government wants to track us, it has never been easier. The ubiquitous and relatively invisible private collection of data serves as a sort of outsourcing of surveillance.

Saving Women From Breast Cancer: Are Mammograms Really the Answer?

Saving Women From Breast Cancer: Are Mammograms Really the Answer?

Naomi Freundlich, Health Beat. October 21, 2009.

New research suggests that mammograms may lead to the over-treatment of some breast diseases while missing lethal cancers. Is there a better answer?

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