I feel sorry for my computer keyboard this morning. It is about to get such a beating, but it’s not about you, dear keyboard.

It is about Scott Walker. And this time it’s personal.

Maybe I’m a tad too sensitive having had a later diagnosis of breast cancer 30 months or so ago. Even with insurance and regular exams, etc., my sneaky cancer hidden inside a cyst was stage 3 when discovered. That meant the kitchen sink was thrown at me…. chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. So far so good. I’m doing great.

But yesterday, I read a report that gave me a reason to recall our governor, Scott Walker, and his trusty sidekick, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Metoofisch.

There are so many reasons to recall these two, but none that hit my gut quite the way Saturday’s report did.

That article on the Mother Jones website was that the Walker Administration is ending $130,000 in funding for the Well Woman Program  in four counties. They are the only  four counties where the only  provider of this free breast and cervical cancer screening program for low-income women is Planned Parenthood. Women in Winnebago, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, and Outagamie counties will be out of luck.

As Mother Jones magazine reported, “Doctors found 15 cases of cervical and breast cancer in the 1,260 women screened in those counties in 2010—cases that likely would not have been detected if women didn’t have access to the Well Woman Program. The county health officers in two of those counties have already issued statements decrying the state for targeting Planned Parenthood for the cut and for risking the health of their residents.”

Walker confirmed the only cut in the program is with those that are provided by Planned Parenthood. And keep in mind this 17-year-old program was created under a Republican Administration.

“The program is still in place. The Well Woman, in particular to make sure women have access to exams for cancer and other things, is funding (funded). It’s in place. We’re just not contracting with Planned Parenthood to do that,” Walker said.  … ”There’s other providers throughout the state who have that. Planned Parenthood is not the sole provider of that. There are many clinics that are not as controversial as Planned Parenthood, and our goal was to make sure low-income women had access to those sorts of screenings from other providers around the state that don’t carry the controversy you get with Planned Parenthood.”

http://www.wbay.com/story/16334221/2011/12/15/state-cuts-funding-for-well-woman-program

In other words, it is another nuclear bomb in his war on the already born.

Here’s the problem with Walker’s reasoning. Not everyone has the transportation to get to those other places in the state. Particularly in the rural parts of those counties where there are no bus services and some low-income women do not own cars, having the local Planned Parenthood can be a lifesaver.

Even in cities that have bus service now are at risk because the end of collective bargaining for public employees could end federal funding grants for local transit. But since Walker has a driver – I assume – and his folks have cars, they don’t give a rat’s a.. about how other folks might get to the healthcare that should be their right.

You can bet Walker’s mother, grandmother, wife and daughters if he had them would not have to sweat over paying for cancer screenings or treatment if it came to that. That’s because he takes care of his own and the hell to the rest of us already borned.

And it is pennywise, pound idiot and pound insensitive because if you look just at costs, it is much more expensive to treat a cancer statement at a later stage than an earlier one.

In last summer’s budget that Walker signed into law a budget, it blogged all state and federal funding for 27 Planned Parenthood centers that serve 73,000 women each year. That is despite rules that already existed to prevent funding going to abortion services.

“They’re willing to put their political ideology before women’s lives,” said Tanya Atkinson, executive director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin. “That’s really what’s happening here.”

(http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/scott-walker-next-target-cancer-screenings-women)

To quote a brilliant young man – OK he’s my son, Michael – “Can this man be recalled please?” Good idea, Michael. I’ll get right on that. And please note his mother taught him to say please.

There’s an app for Scott Walker. It is called recall.

Do it for yourself, your mother, your father, your kids, grandkids.

It is about values – the pro-life value of supporting cancer screenings for low-income women – even if you don’t happen to be one of those women.

Scott Walker, you cannot pretend to be pro-life any longer if you don’t care about the already born.

And Lt. Metoofisch, you lost me when you used your own cancer as an excuse as a campaign tool when you claimed in an ad that you would not have had the wonderful healthcare you received if you had been under Obamacare. (When you said Obamacare, your eyes went all Republican on me – see the eyes of Michele Bachmnnnnnnnnnnann.)

The truth was you were on the state healthcare plan under your husband, a state legislator. Only the best for you and yours and the hell with the rest of us.

And you want to deny cancer screenings to other women who just happen to have lesser income?

You gotta go, too, Lt. Meetoofisch.

This is how I will spend my winter – again – speaking out, writing about what is happening in our state – and most just for me but for all of us.

Yes, let me repeat there is an app for that – it’s called RECALL.

Call me if you want to sign – and can legally do so – and I will come to you with a petition if you have not signed.