{"id":9535,"date":"2012-11-30T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=9535"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:14","slug":"be-the-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2012\/be-the-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Be the Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Be the Choice\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Our friend and colleague<strong> Melanie Adrian<\/strong> has started an NGO to promote awareness about surgical options for women diagnosed with breast cancer. &nbsp;Along with our own undergrads in the Department of Law and Legal Studies and friends and colleagues from Carleton University, &#8220;Be the Choice&#8221; is raising money to produce an educational video aimed at &#8220;empowering patients to take an activist stance towards their health, to be active decision makers in their treatment possibilities, and to confidently embody choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Project leMonADE, is raising $24,000 to make a short movie about the surgical options for the treatment of breast cancer. The movie will increase the amount and type of information that is available to newly diagnosed breast cancer patients and inform them about the full range of treatment options that exist. Partnered with Breast Cancer Action (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcaott.ca\">www.bcaott.ca<\/a>), any donation is&nbsp;<strong>tax deductible<\/strong>&nbsp;(in Canada).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find out more here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>website:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/bethechoice.org\">bethechoice.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facebook:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BetheChoicePL\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BetheChoicePL<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>e-mail:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:Project.Lemonade@hotmail.com\">Project.Lemonade@hotmail.com<\/a><br>\ntwitter: @Prolemonade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please consider contributing and forwarding this information to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/lemonaide.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/lemonaide-400x104.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9537\" title=\"lemonaide\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend and colleague Melanie Adrian has started an NGO to promote awareness about surgical options for women diagnosed with breast cancer. &nbsp;Along with our own undergrads in the Department of Law and Legal Studies and friends and colleagues from Carleton University, &#8220;Be the Choice&#8221; is raising money to produce an educational video aimed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16168,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9535\/revisions\/16168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}