Lance Armstrong means business. He says his new race is finding a cure for a disease that kills 600,000 people a year. Lance is a ten year testicular cancer survivor and was diagnosed at the age of 25.
Yesterday, Lance urged Iowans to support a presidential candidate who's dedicated to expanding cancer research. In a speech to 1,500 guests of the Greater Des Moines Partnership's annual dinner, the seven time Tour de France Champion described the power Iowa holds as the nation's lead-off state in the presidential nominating process.
"The cancer question has to be asked, and it has to be on the agenda for the most powerful man in the world", Armstrong said.
Go Lance!
I have kept this post in the pending file for two days because something inside me is deeply opposed to giving
these groups any more media attention or blog time than they manage to attract on their own. But, as a breast cancer
survivor, I have become aware of an emerging new twist in the agenda regarding the fight to overturn the legalization
of abortion that is so disturbing and offensive, I feel compelled to share the observation more than I feel compelled
to denying these groups attention. This post is not about abortion. This post is about a group using cancer in a veiled
attempt to further the political agenda for overturning the legalization of abortion -- in what appears to be an
anything goes tactic of justifying the means to achieve the ultimate goal. 
