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The Breast Care Center at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center is going to help save and improve the lives of many women. As the son of a breast cancer survivor, I appreciate and understand how important these efforts are to breast cancer screening and treatment in Fayetteville. Nevertheless, I think about my father and two brothers. According to recent cancer statistics,1 in 2 men will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, and 1 in 6 will have prostate cancer. To make matters worse, North Carolina has one of the highest rates of prostate cancer in the nation. Locally, Fayetteville Mayor J. L. Dawkins lost his repeated battle with prostate cancer in 2000. My only conclusion is that Fayetteville needs a companion Prostate Care Center for men.

January 22nd, 2008 marks the 25th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. I'll be Joining NARAL and others across the blogosphere in Blog for Choice Day.

Women posting on the internet are often targets for male aggression, sexual threats and degradation. Some bloggers, like Arianna Huffington, have zero tolerance for abusive language; others sanction the abuse by not censoring those who engage in it.

The Washington Post reports that "the founders of BlogHer, a 10,000-member online community supporting women, said the best way to enforce civility on a blog is for each site to create its own rules -- such as removing abusive comments -- then make the rules public and apply them fairly. Fairly is the key word in this exchange.

Crossposted from Town Called Dobson


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Kirk Ross at Exile on Jones Street covers state politics as well as anyone and better than most. His entry today has photographs of the handful of people who have thrown their hats into the big oily ring Jim Black is leaving behind. And guess what? They're all men.

I'm not naive enough to think that women are the cure-all for political malfeasance, but they sure as hell can't do any worse than men have. And so I call on the women in the legislature to get their act together and take charge.

A couple of women were the first to speak publicly about the need for a new speaker last spring, a time when not a single big, bad man was saying squat.

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PS I confess to bias in favor of women, which I first wrote about here at BlueNC.