{"id":6774,"date":"2011-10-26T12:36:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T17:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=6774"},"modified":"2011-10-26T12:36:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T17:36:29","slug":"the-pink-link-contraception-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/the-pink-link-contraception-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pink Link: Contraception &#038; Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ribbon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5483\" title=\"ribbon\" src=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ribbon-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ribbon-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ribbon.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pink awareness campaign is packaged, quite profitably, as an expression of genuine concern about women\u2019s health. So surely it is reasonable to expect that such concern be matched by an accurate presentation of all the known risk factors, and by an insistence upon the very best corresponding prevention recommendations, right? After all, early detection measures such as screening are not nearly the same thing as solid prevention. Indefensibly, however, most awareness efforts fail to feature some factors known to reduce breast cancer risk: having children, avoiding induced abortions, and refraining from oral contraceptives. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crisismagazine.com\/2011\/the-dark-side-of-thinking-pink\" target=\"_blank\">&#8212; Crisis Magazine<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=5481\" target=\"_blank\">Race for the Cancer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pink awareness campaign is packaged, quite profitably, as an expression of genuine concern about women\u2019s health. So surely it is reasonable to expect that such concern be matched by an accurate presentation of all the known risk factors, and by an insistence upon the very best corresponding prevention recommendations, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"The Pink Link: Contraception & Cancer - Politickles","description":"The pink awareness campaign is packaged, quite profitably, as an expression of genuine concern about women\u2019s health. So surely it is reasonable to expect that s"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[101,2746,2750,3382,2748,2747,2749],"class_list":["post-6774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion","tag-breast-cancer","tag-contraceptives","tag-crucial-catch","tag-pink-ribbon","tag-race-for-the-cure","tag-susan-g-komen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}