Tom Coburn: Anti-breast crusader?

Just in time for the pink-ribboned hoopla of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the decidedly awful Tom Coburn has effectively killed an amendment to fund research into environmental causes of the disease.
Writes Fran Visco, head of the National Breast Cancer Coalition,

We played by the rules. We did everything right. …we worked six long years to gain support for this bill, and we won that support from 66 senator sponsors. And 99 were willing to say yes. One lone senator has decided the course of breast cancer research for the entire nation. Senator Coburn won’t release his hold and Senate leadership won’t bring the bill to the floor for a vote.

It’s not like this disease kills 40,000 people annually or anything. Nah, much more important to squeeze in a pre-recess discussion of the flag-burning amendment.
You’ll recall Tom Coburn is a man who thinks women are healthier with fake tits. No need to fund breast cancer research, because how bad can the disease really be? I mean, a few more cases of breast cancer will mean a few more mastectomies, which will surely result in a few more happier, healthier, fake-titted women. Awesome!