[Dialogue] Molly Ivins Hospitalized in Ongoing Battle With Cancer

[Harry Wainwright]

Published on Friday, January 26, 2007 by Editor
<http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003
538329> & Publisher 

Molly Ivins Hospitalized in Ongoing Battle With Cancer 

by E & P Staff

 

AUSTIN -- Almost three weeks ago, Molly Ivins wrote that she would dedicate
every single one of her syndicated columns from now on to the issue of
stopping the war in Iraq -- until it ended. But she has managed to finish
only one more column since. 

The gravely ill Texas columnist has been hospitalized again this week in her
ongoing battle with breast cancer. 

Her assistant Betsy Moon says she may be able to go home Monday. She adds
that those close to Ivins are ``not sure what's going to happen, but she's
very sick.'' 

The 62-year-old columnist had taken an earlier break from her syndicated
column, but resumed writing earlier this month. 

Last October she had suggested this headline to an E&P interviewer: "Molly
Ivins Still Not Dead." 

E&P wrote then, "The third recurrence of the breast cancer she has been
battling since 1999 (and which recently claimed her good friend, former
Texas Gov. Ann Richards) has left the 62-year-old Ivins with precarious
balance, minimal hair, and no illusions about the redemptive quality of
life-threatening illness. 'I'd hoped to become a better person from
confronting my own mortality,' she laughs. 'But it hasn't happened.'" 

In the Jan. <http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0111-31.htm>  11th column,
which opposed the troop escalation, Ivins wrote
<http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0111-31.htm>  "We are the people who
run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single
one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this
war....If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on Jan. 27. We need
people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!'"


But this was the last newspaper column she has been able to write. 

The column <http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0105-30.htm>  she wrote
before that, a few days earlier, opened, "The president of the United States
doesn't have the sense God gave a duck. So it's up to us. You and me. 

"I don't know why Bush is just standing there like a frozen rabbit, but it's
time we found out. The fact is we have to do something about it. This
country is being torn apart by an evil and unnecessary war, and it has to be
stopped now." 

She vowed, "This will be a regular feature of mine, like an old-fashioned
newspaper campaign. Every column, I'll write about this war until we find
some way to end it. 

"Every time, we'll review some factor we should have gotten right." 

Nearly 400 newspapers subscribe to her column. 

The longtime journalist and former New York Times reporter got her third
cancer diagnosis more than a year ago and has undergone chemotherapy. 

C Copyright 2007 Editor & Publisher

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