YES I HATE! My Pure WHITE-HOT Hate For The Religious Right Is ALL Inside

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Mrs Matcom was diagnosed with stage 3 (out of 4 possible stages) Cervical Cancer 5 years ago. The HELL she went through for a half a year, I would not wish on Ann Coulter. Every day, zapped with radiation. Every week, metal pumped into her body to kill this fucking disease. Just enough time in between treatments for her to get her strength back, stop the vomiting (other unspeakable side effects) so more metal could be pumped through to continue the cycle. At the end, radiation DIRECTLY implanted for a 4 day hospital stay behind a lead door.

The day she was to be released, she couldn't stand, couldn't eat, couldn't stop vomiting. The doctor said she would have to do ALL of that before I could take her home. She looked at me terrified and begged me to get her out of there. Pleaded. She was 100% done.

Mrs Matcom survived and is 100% healthy today and 100% cancer free. She won the fight but others will NOT be as 'lucky'. If the cancer wasn't going to kill her, we thought the treatments would.

The op-ed below, and at the link enrages me to the point of no return. Not the author or her words, rather the situation we find ourselves in today. I have a PERSONAL stake in this and you may someday as well. I am declaring WAR on these fuckers who want to block this vaccine. ABSOLUTE AND TOTAL WAR! These fuckers DO make laws that affect us PERSONALLY. These bastards are KILLING PEOPLE and it HAS to stop.

Please cut and paste the linked op-ed and forward if you feel so inclined:

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ELLEN GOODMAN
Good news on cancer? Not for everyone
By Ellen Goodman | November 12, 2005

THERE WAS a time when only the loony left believed that the loony right favored death over sex. Not anymore.

If you've been engrossed in the culture-war correspondence on the judicial front, maybe you missed the news on the medical front. While the religious right escorted Harriet Miers out and welcomed Samuel Alito in, a group of scientists announced the beginning of the end of a deadly cancer.

In clinical trials, a new vaccine was 100 percent successful in preventing the virus that causes most cervical cancer, the second-leading cancer killer of women in the world. Every year some 10,000 American women are diagnosed with it and nearly 4,000 die. It now appears that with government approval and funding, we're on our way to ending this scourge.

The success story was greeted with cork-popping enthusiasm by doctors. Eliav Barr of the beleaguered Merck, one of the two companies to develop a vaccine, offered a toast: ''This is it. This is the Holy Grail." But it appears that social conservatives aren't drinking from the same chalice.

This was the response of Leslie Unruh of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse: ''I personally object to vaccinating children against a disease that is 100 percent preventable with proper sexual behavior."

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I always thought it was a bit much to talk about a ''Taliban wing" of the Republican Party. After all, the real Taliban stoned women to death if they had sex out of wedlock. What sentence would our Taliban choose? Cancer?

Success or sabotage? Watch how easy it can be to sabotage a success story.

MORE.... http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/11/12/good_news_on_cancer_not_for_everyone?mode=PF