by Rebecca Honig Friedman

Senator Hillary Clinton’s next campaign issue? Curing breast cancer in the next decade!

Blogger Town Crier sends in this article from Clinton’s campaign blog:

Hillary Clinton appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show today and announced her plan to find a cure for breast cancer within our lifetime. Hillary’s plan would provide $300 million a year in increased funding for breast cancer research at the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, and the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program.
In addition to funding research for new treatments, these investments will also go to investigate the cause of breast cancer, including the role that environmental pollutants may have, as well as, potential genetic and hereditary links. The plan would also improve access to screenings and treatment by making mammograms more affordable and providing funding for treatment for low-income women. Under Hillary’s American Health Choices Plan, all women will have affordable, quality health insurance regardless of employment, marital status, or pre-existing conditions so they get the care and treatment they need.

This is clearly a last-ditch effort to court the women’s vote, but it’s also a worthy initiative — a taste of what having a woman in the oval office might mean for women — and one especially relevant to Jewish women, who have a much higher incidence of the breast cancer gene than the general population, as Town Crier points out.

Tell that to the women at Stern College…

Posted on April 8th, 2008 Filed under: Uncategorized |