LOS ANGELES — In what looks to be a break between two organizations dedicated to women’s health, a national breast cancer awareness group said it would stop providing funds to Planned Parenthood centers for breast cancer examinations and other breast health services.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a leader in fundraising for breast cancer research and famous worldwide for its iconic pink ribbon, said Tuesday that it was halting all partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates because of recently adopted criteria that forbid it from funding any organization under government investigation.
In September, Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., launched an inquiry to determine whether Planned Parenthood uses public money to fund abortions. Planned Parenthood receives federal money but cannot use it to provide abortions.
Komen has a long history of providing funding to various Planned Parenthood affiliates for such services as manual breast exams and referrals for mammograms and biopsies to check suspicious lumps for cancer. Although that money is not used for abortions, the KomenFoundation may have yielded to demands from antiabortion groups to sever its ties to Planned Parenthood.
“We had the sense this was coming and that they were under pressure,” said Sue Dunlap, chief executive of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles. “I find this really disappointing. I think when women’s health is more of a political conversation than a conversation about healthcare and taking care of people, then we’ve gone too far.”
Officials for Planned Parenthood Federation of America said they learned of Komen’s new stance on funding late last year and asked the Komen board of directors for a meeting to resolve any issues or questions related to funding. The meeting did not take place, said Cecile Richards, the federation’s president.
“We are alarmed and saddened that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation appears to have succumbed to political pressure,” Richards said in a statement. “Our greatest desire is forKomen to reconsider this policy and recommit to the partnership on which so many women count.”
Over the last five years, Planned Parenthood has provided about 4 million breast exams and referrals for 70,000 mammograms nationwide. Funding from Komen covers about 170,000 of the breast exams and 6,400 mammogram referrals, Richards said. Although mammograms and biopsies are referred out, Planned Parenthood doctors manage their patients’ cases.
Officials from the Komen Foundation could not be reached for comment. But in an earlier interview with the Associated Press, Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun said that the decision was based solely on the Stearns investigation and did not imply wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood.
“We want to maintain a positive relationship with them,” Aun told the Associated Press. “We’re not making any judgment.”
In Orange County, the loss of Komen grants will end programs to reach out to special groups in need of breast cancer education, said Stephanie Kight, senior vice president of the Planned Parenthood affiliate for Orange and San Bernardino counties.
One Komen grant funded outreach to Vietnamese women in which Planned Parenthood workers would provide breast health education in hair and nail salons and other gathering places for Vietnamese women. Another allowed the chapter to fund referrals for biopsies for women who had suspicious lumps discovered during breast exams at a Planned Parenthood clinic.
The $120,000 annual grants the affiliate received from Komen made up half of its yearly budget for breast health care, Kight said.
“We’ve been long-time partners with Komen in taking care of women’s breast health,” said Kight, who added that her affiliate had not yet been informed of Komen’s decision to halt Planned Parenthood funding. “If this decision was brought on because of political pressure, that would be really disappointing.”
Antiabortion groups lauded the decision and described it as the result of years of lobbying from Americans who oppose abortion.
“I know that hundreds, even thousands, of people reached out to Komen to request they stop giving to Planned Parenthood. That was constant over the years,” said Eric Scheidler, executive director of the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League. “Pro-life people object because Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion chain. Every dollar they take in facilitates their operations.”
Planned Parenthood has become the central target of antiabortion groups, Scheidler added. Last year, the organization, which serves about 3 million people a year for reproductive health care and other primary-care services, was the focus of a bill introduced by Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., that would have halted its federal funding. About one-third of Planned Parenthood’s $1.1-billion national budget comes from the federal government.
The bill was defeated. But the Komen Foundation decision “really shows that when pro-life people make their views known in a vocal way, through all of those phone calls and emails and public protests, it can have an impact,” Scheidler said. “It’s really encouraging and, hopefully, will be followed by other corporate donors to Planned Parenthood.”
The decision spurred vigorous comment on websites across the country Tuesday night.
“Shame, shame, shame on Susan G Komen. I thought you cared about women’s health,” wrote one visitor to the Susan G. Komen “Sound off!” message board. “Betrayal,” wrote another: “I have had friends and family members who have survived breast cancer and other cancers. … I will never make another contribution to another SGK event or cause.”
“Thank you!!! Susan G. Komen for breaking your ties with abortionists!” wrote a third. “Never should you have supported them, regardless of their non-abortion activities.”
If Komen is going to adopt a pro-life position on abortion, then I’m done with them.
I dont think they’re actually considering a “Pro-Life” stance, I think they dont people to think their money is going to “Baby Killing.” I thought the program’s main focus was on cancer awareness and treatment. Not abortion funding. I’m just as shocked as you are.
Even thought apparently Komen’s main focus still is cancer awareness and treatment, a few misguided extremists have forced them to abandon a valued ally. Unwise is an understatement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/business/in-the-breast-cancer-fight-the-pinking-of-america.html?pagewanted=all
Given the time you spend posting on these boards, I’m sure its not a big loss. Government funds should not be used for killing unborn babies – Period.
You’re 100% correct ConcernedMainer1! I agree.
So I guess you consider the time YOU spend “on these boards” to important and relevant. The funding that both Susan G. Komen and Planned Parenthood receives from the government is but a miniscule part. I CHALLENGE YOU to prove to me that even one cent was spent for “killing babies” (your term, not mine). If you don’t believe in abortion, don’t have one.
Their under investigation ” now ” for misuse of public funds. Let’s wait and see what happens.
Witchhunt
“Witchhunt” excuse me why should PP be receiving government money anyway?
…because it provides much needed health care to women who cannot afford it. This organization directly provides what is needed to those who need it. It does a lot better, I might add, than our welfare system, which hands out EBT cards and hopes that people are not buying junk food or dumping out water for the returnables. The USA has one of the highest infant mortality rates among developed countries (I’m not talking about abortion), and if women were healthier, this rate would go down.
The best health advice I would give women is eat well, exercise , stay away from oral contraception and when you have a babies have them at home or a birthing center delivered by either a lay mid wife or nurse mid wife.
Planned Parenthood is under a witch hunt by Conservatives not because they provide abortions but because they provide free or low cost family planning (of which abortions are a small part) and healthcare for women. Conservatives do not want women to be equal to men and if women do not have any control over thier body then they canneer be equal to men.
I say that all women withhold all sex from their husbands except for when they want to get pregnant, especially if the husband is a conservative.
“Conservatives do not want women to be equal to men and if women do not have any control over thier body then they canneer be equal to men.” and only liberal women are smart.
Never said anything about a women’s political leanings.
I said that Conservatives do not want a woman to have control over her own body or her reproductive rights. That goes for liberal or conservative women.
Nice try to change the subject tho.
Nice try to change the subject tho. I guess you still don’t get it. I’ll spell it out for you thier is their canner is cannot and tho is though.
Sorry, typos excluded you are the one that changed the subject.
You can attack my typos but not the argument itself.
apparently they are according to this article http://www.thegrio.com/news/new-study-links-racism-prejudice-and-conservatism-to-low-iq.php
“If you don’t believe in abortion, don’t have one.”
Okay, that’s like saying:
If you don’t believe in genocides, don’t have one.
If you don’t believe in hurricanes, don’t have one.
If you don’t believe in euthanasia, don’t have one.
Hyperbolic.
no it’s not….all of those instances you have no choice to avoid them. SO, not it’s not.
Boycott Pink!
Check my post. I’m uncomfortable with “boycott” but I won’t contribute to Komen. Hopefully, organizations with wiser policies will take up the slack.
You obviously don’t care about helping women with breast cancer.
Just to be clear, they’re neutral on the subject as the article explains. But if you want to stop donating to a cause that has been primarily focused on woman’s health such as free cancer screenings, thats pretty selfish in my opinion.
Komen has been getting a lot of bad press lately and deservedly so. Try and raise money for breast cancer research while wearing a pink ribbon and they’ll hit you with a lawsuit! Like so many non-profit organizations which start out to benefit the people, this outfit has grown beyond it’s original purpose and has become a corporation that exercises their political clout at the expense of their founding purpose, to find a cure for breast cancer. Sad. I imagine that Ms. Komen would be outraged!
Maybe you should do some research regarding Komen and how it’s just another foundation marketing “pink”.
I have been involved with the Komen Maine Race for 15 years in several capacities on the Race committee. I am so disappointed in this decision. Komen is about breast health, not abortion. Just more of the right wing “Christian”agenda that is ruining this country. It’s a very sad day for breast cancer research. I already know many regular supporters who will no longer support Komen if this remains in force. Bangor will not have a 6000 member race this year, that’s for sure.
So, all of those women were actually running to support abortion, not breast cancer?
If you really cared about women with breast cancer, you would continue to support Komen because you would recognize that this is a side issue to what you REALLY care about.
Obviously, you NEVER cared about women with breast cancer.
Obviously you don’t know a damn thing about me or why I am involved with Komen!!!! Pro-choice vs Right to Life are not issues that should decide who gets financial support for women’s health. Komen money helps save lives through breast health awareness and research. It should not be taking sides on the highly emotional issue of abortion.
And you are correct, those people are running to support breast cancer, not to make a political statement. Komen should do the same.
Looks like PP might be busy snuffing out some fetuses for the next few weeks http://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/news/20120201/1-million-birth-control-pill-packs-recalled
You might want to send an extra large donation to your friends at PP, looks like they’ll be busy for the next few weeks. http://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/news/20120201/1-million-birth-control-pill-packs-recalled
That’s right. Let women die from breast cancer.
You never cared about women to begin with.
Planned Parenthood has NOTHING to do with women’s health. Killing unborn babies isn’t in the interest of the mother or the child.
simply a lie
Keep repeating the lie often enough and you’ll believe it.
He and too many others already have. Brainwashed.
Again, what part of “Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of abortions in the U.S. In 2009, Planned Parenthood performed 332,278 abortions, from which it derives about $164,154,000, or 15% of its annual revenue.” is not clear?
It’s often in the interest of the father, who now won’t have to pay child support.
It’s often in the interest of the Chinese, who prefer male babies to female babies.
There are any number of people who find rationales.
Yes, because Planned Parenthood serves the Chinese Governments policies in CHINA.
Non sequitur pbmann. The point is that people find rationales for abortion. Whether it be for Eugenics, following Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, or for any number of reasons that those involved find as the rationale. The existence of a rationale is neither pro-life nor pro-choice, it’s a statement. Stop being a polemicist.
And people find rationales for making women keep a baby against their will as well.
Had to look up the definition of a polemicist and when I did one of the definitions was a skilled debater in speech or writing. If that is what you meant then thank you.
If you meant a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology) then I think you should ask yourself whether or not you are a polemiscist.
Wrong, just wrong.
Planned Parenthood is the only healthcare provider for many poor women, less than 3% of their budget goes towards abortions. What do you think the other 97% goes for?
If you read the article you would have learned that Planned Parenthood has provided about 4 million breast exams and referrals for 70,000 mammograms nationwide per year. How many of women are being served by so called Pro-Life funds, I’ll hazard a guess that the number is near zero.
Planned Parenthood also provides free or low cost birth control for poor women and that is the real reason Conservatives are going after Planned Parenthood. If a poor women has control over her reproductive rights, she has control over her body and that can not be allowed in a conservative world.
I might respect the pro-life argument if they were helping to provide free or low cost healthcare to women and their children but they do not. Once a child is born the majority of pro-life people and groups do nothing to help the mostly young and poor women take care of themselves or their babies.
If fact most pro-life people and organizations do little or nothing to help the expectant mother stay healthy during the pregnancy in order for a healthy baby to be born. Most conservatives think we already spend to much on the social safety nets on which all those poor women and children will ultimately grow to depend on.
Yes, 3% of their budget goes towards abortion. 15% of their revenue comes from abortion. That’s a 12% profit. Catholic hospitals and health services provide just as many breast exams, mammograms and don’t do abortions. Oncologists and gynecologists also do breast exams, mammograms, and don’t do abortions.
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How can anyone respect your argument when you refuse to realize that Planned Parenthood is an abortion clinic using inarguably good deeds in support of women’s health as cover for their 12% profit margin?
Planned Parenthood is a non profit entity which means they do not make a profit. Any revenues that Planned Parenthood get from any service they provide is put back into the operating budget to provide more services.
Again non-profits by definition and IRS regulations do not make a profit.
It’s too bad Komen has lost it’s focus on helping women with breast cancer and bowed to pressure from right-wingers who advocate murdering Doctors as opposed to a women’s right to choice. Komen will not recieve another penny from me.
Komen was founded to FIND A CURE FOR BREAST CANCER. Could you tell me how PP factored into that? I think cancer research is done in laboratories, not abortaries.
Exactly, Dave. I dont see the link between cancer treatment/prevention and abortion.
And some legitimate scientific studies have shown a higher incidence of breast, cervical, and ovarian cancer in women who’ve had abortions. That might be a statistical artifact though, since self-reporting of having had an abortion is under-reported.
Planned Parenthood has provided about 4 million breast exams and referrals for 70,000 mammograms nationwide yearly. How many breast exams are provided by pro-life groups?
Fascinating, as PP actually reports “Doctors and nurses annually conduct 1 million screenings for cervical cancer and 830,000 breast exams.” Catholic hospitals provide almost as many screenings and exams…. and they don’t conduct abortions. Your point?
I dont necessarily agree with their decision. But I have and always will be pro-life. Just because people can peacefully protest for the rights of innocent unborn lives, doesn’t mean that Komen needs to “Cave in” and give people what they want. I respect a woman’s right to her health and her body. But we all probably agree that abortion is not an easy or pleasant decision.
Abortion will always be a touchy subject. Period.
Yet the pro-life movement, rather than trying to educate people to their point of view, goes out of their way to harrass, injure, and kill those who are associated with pro-choice organizations. The pro-life movement is also the anti-live movement in that, given the power to do so, would force a woman to carry her baby full term and then abandon both mother and baby as soon as that baby draws its first breath. I call thay hypocritical.
Never have I personally been involved in a “Peacefull” protest that would injure, harrass, or kill somebody over my beliefs. I think you’re quoting isolated events. Just as you and I are free to discuss our opinions on BDN, I respect your opinion and I hope you respect mine.
OK, so you haven’t but your “fellow travelers” have. If you won’t tar all organizations with the same brush (especially the predominant non-abortion acitivies of PP) I won’t condemn all of you pro-lifers. Agreed?
Oh @Gopher40. I totall agree. I think planned parenthood is a very important organization and program for woman. It is also available to men and is non biased. You can condemn whoever you’d like in your own mind. We can argue till’ we’re blue in the face, but all I think is that a “Cancer fund” shouldn’t be funding abortion procedures. If you want to abort your child. pay for it yourself. You made that child, let the mother/father cough up the money and live with that guilt in the back of your mind for years to come. I work hard and pay taxes. I dont mind if its going to bombs being dropped or building schools or paying police officers. I dont want my hard earned tax money going to aborting lives. Too bad they had to mix cancer in with abortion funding. If I had knew my money that was donated for a legitimate cause was used to kill innocent lives, i would have canceled the check a long time ago.
Unfortunately violence by the pro-life movement against anyone or thing they see as aiding the ‘pro-abortion’ are not isolated events. You just don’t hear about them nationally but do a Google search and you will be surprised at the frequency.
And the Pro-Choice movement is not a Pro-Abortion movement. It is a movement to give women the choice to either keep the baby, put the baby up for adoption or abort the pregnancy with the last option being the least favorable.
Nice statistics on the “google” research. Of couse its going to return hits for whatever you type in bubba. For the 13 years that I have been protesting in Hands around the Captiol events and other “road side” pro-life events I have never seen anybody become a threat. If they were, law enforcemnt would be called and it would be dealth with. I am in full respect of property laws and freedom of assembly rights. I also dont think its fun to get in “Brawls” with people who dont agree with me. Just as you have an opinion, so do I. And we both respect that, I’m sure.
umm, who is shooting abortion doctors? If that isn’t a way to injure and harass people I don’t know what is….who finds out where Drs. that perform abortions and then stand outside their homes and harass them as they come and go from their own homes.
I think I remember a famous case like this. Wasnt it in a church? America freaks out over an aboritionist getting killed and its still talked about today, but if a man shoots a pregnant woman its only on the 6 o’clock news maybe twice. I think people need to focus on the real issue, whats happening in 2012. Not YEARS ago.
Abortion is legal and is a difficult, private medical decision….
Keep the massive Federal Bureaucracy out of this process.
Too bad Komen wont be supporting Planned Parenthood….
Wonder what damage that will do to actual Women and Babies?
it will give the babies life and spare the women a lifetime of heartache and despair. Komen now has the opportunity to respectfully support women’s health. They can use their funds to open new clinics or work in conjunction with hospitals to provide clinics for women’s breast health. It is what they stand for – breast care.
No, it will cause the unecesary deaths of women who are already alive dying because they did not get early treatment of a treatable disease. It will not cause one less fetus to be aborted because the funds were never used to abort fetus’.
Well hopefully less babies being snuffed out by PP.
Pulling back funds for breast cancer screening for countless women who depend upon Planned Parenthood is NOT a pro life decision. Unless the money is replaced by direct support of PP, living adult women will die. SGK gets no more of my support. And to answer people like Jonathan Smith; first PP does a lot for women’s gynecological health that has nothing to do with abortion and they are the largest group that does so. In many locations, they are the only option for the working poor. Withdrawal of funds, in the few years due to politics has already greatly impacted PP ability to provide pap smears and other health care. And I am tired of people apologizing for the abortion care that PP provides. There are cases of rape, incest and potential harm to the mother in which abortions are quite necessary. Someone needs to provide them safely and at a reasonable cost. Keeping a woman alive IS in the best interest of the woman and of the children she already has living. The blatant hatred for women is disgusting and it has to stop. Enough is enough!
Well, if PP were to spin off their women’s health clinics separately from their abortion business (because they’re two different parts of PP), that could help. Problem is, PP purposely uses the women’s health side to cause people to advocate for PP, to provide cover for the flak they receive for profiting from their abortion business side.
I don’t think they “push” abortion except as a last resort and they certainly don’t “profit” from it.
Hello, Buehler:
“Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of abortions in the U.S. In 2009, Planned Parenthood performed 332,278 abortions, from which it derives about $164,154,000, or 15% of its annual revenue.”
The data is from Media Matters, a left wing group, even. Conservative groups estimate the number is much higher.
Wrong again David. You really are drinking the cool aid
No, I know how to read Planned Parenthood’s own website. And Media Matters. And Rachel Maddow. And major papers. You?
Although I think this is a tragedy that the SGK fund will lose a lot of supporter’s over controversy such as this. I have personally donated towards this cause, but unknowingly that it was going to fund abortion. I dont think my “Charity” money should go towards murder of unborn babies. For example, if a person was to kill a pregnant woman. He/She would get charged with double murder. But a woman can walk into a clinic and and have a professional “Terminate” an innocent life. I dont see the difference. I just see a medical license and a person that “enjoys” doing it. They choose to go to work everyday knowing that they’re going to prevent a person from coming into the world. Makes me sick.
You failed to mention PP protecting victims of incest. They never question a father bringing his daughter in for an abortion due to him abusing her.
That’s the point. The Catholic Church, right-wing protestants, and Mormons, and others, are not interested in keeping women alive. They are only interested in harvesting the fruits of conception; the woman is not considered a full-fledged human being.
You just don’t care about women with breast cancer.
Shame on Komen. No more money from me.
FYI for all of you who support United Way. They fund Planned Parenthood abortion clinics too.
Yes, that too is why I don’t support United Way. The best way to see your hard earned money going to the charity of your choice donate directly.
No it is not a lie, PP is the nations largest provider for snuffing out fetuses . PP does provide birth control services, however their offices are not set up to do mammograms, so Komen made the right decision.
They can support breast cancer screenings as they already do through public health agencies, and hospitals, and the list goes on. It actually could make a lot of sense for them to set something up with the Red Cross through blood services. RC has doctors and medical assistants…
Some people are going to quit supporting Komen because PP is under Federal investigation for misuse of Public funds. I thought it’s all about women’ s health, guess I was wrong.
Why doesn’t Komen open up or work in conjunction with hospitals to offer clinics for women’s breast care? If they can fund PP on the scale they did they certainly can offer breast care services in other venues.
I’m not holding my breath.
I have not given to the Komen Foundation orknowingly bought anything associated with them, because they have supported Planned Parenthood, which is in the business of killing unborn babies. This article states that the reason for pulling financial support is “because PP is undern investigation,” NOT because they have abortion facilities where the lives are taken.
I agree. If I knew if one dime of their money went to killing unborn children, I wouldn’t have sent in my yogurt lids for 10 cents towards the cause. :P
I think if they changed their name to planned unparenthood it might be a little more transparent.
The promote family planning in general, including contraception. That’s your ultimate target, isn’t it?
This will be the undoing of this organization. Unfortunately they have bowed to political pressure. This organization was about finding a cure for cancer, not about politics. I’m sure this is not what Susan Komen and her sister (founding members) intended for this to be a political organization. Those opposing abortion cannot make up the difference of what SGK will lose in monetary funds because of this decision. And if you think this isn’t a political decision look at the history of the current senior vice president.
I admire the Foundation’s decision to essentially be neutral. Just because they ditch a company under federal investigation, doesn’t mean they’ve gone fanatical.
Neutral? In the face of uniformed extremism? Not.
Who’s wearing a uniform? Are you suggesting that anyone with an opposing view is a Brownshirt? Actually, you have your analogies backwards. Margaret Sanger and her view of Eugenics was highly admired by people who wanted to eliminate certain “undesirables” and their children.
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Going to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening, is akin to going to the dentist for an eye exam.
PP, which profits from its abortion clinics, launders the grant and donation money it receives to run auxiliary enterprises in support of women’s health simply to provide cover for what they’re really in the business of.
The Komen Foundation for many years has supported breast cancer screening through multiple providers. But PP is under *federal investigation*. Because Komen is a non-profit, they by their own bylaws can’t continue business with PP.
I’m sure they’ll continue supporting breast cancer screening through hospitals, public health agencies, and local providers in equivalent amounts to what PP provided.
And you’ll make “sure” of that, right? And personally cover any shortfall?
Absolutely. Komen continues to support breast cancer screenings and awareness with the same budgeted amounts… they can direct it through agencies around the country that are similar to local agencies like Penquis, PCHC, the Catholic health service community, etc. Are you saying they MUST give to an organization facing a federal investigation, when other organizations NOT facing such are available?
when was the last time you went PP for breast cancer screening?
This is a textbook example of why institutional charity does not work. The USA has become like a giant Monopoly game. pick a side and divide the board. Pretty soon NO ONE (not the pro’s or the Anti’s) will have room to wiggle their small toe.
Brickbats to Komen. All over one extremist Republican/conservative’s ill-founded “investigation”. I assume all those who laud this revolting development will themselves fund the Programs that Komen will not. You’d better or be correctly branded even more hypocritical than you are now.
Another thing. Any fund raising for women’s health, especially cancer exams, had better spell out where the money is going. If even a fraction goes to Komen, I’m not contributing and I’d advise other thinking, caring people to do the same.
Why would you give to Koman anyway? I bet their director makes at $100,000
I think we should hold a national referendum on whether or not to make abortions illegal.
The Voting should not be secret instead you should have to put your name and address on your vote. Then if the referendum passes all people who voted to end abortions should be put onto a list of people who would be put in a lottery and the winners would have to adopt one of those unwanted babies, even poor non-white or unhealthy babies. Oh, and they will not get any additional financial help to raise those children because we already pay way to much money for welfare.
These same people should have to pay an additional tax that provides pre-natel healthcare to all women forced to keep the baby to term because if you are pro-life you must want both the mother and child to be healthy, don’t you?
I wonder how many so called pro-life people would vote for this? I’m thinking not many if they were forced to have an unwanted child that they might not be able to take care of.
How about instead, we hold a national referendum on whether or not to make CANCER illegal?
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I can’t stand how PP uses a decision of an independent foundation to try to mobilize the pro-abortion extremists. Those of us in the “pro-consequences” middle get really annoyed by this. See, it’s not pro-choice or pro-abortion. Americans in the middle see the issue as “it is a terrible situation to be in, with the consequences rarely considered appropriately and fully.” I cannot agree with the total “pro-life” view, as it neglects so many important issues such as conception by rape and incest, ability to provide good health, alternative adoption availability… and I cannot agree with the total “pro-choice” or “pro-abortion” view, as it acts like there are few consequences.
Yes, lets make CAncer illegal and put it in jail where it can’t hurt anyone. Brilliant idea.
Wow, you belong to the pro-consequences group? I did a Google search for this group and I found one. It was a black minister who was pro-choice and basicly rediculing the so-called pro-consequences group.
If you were to put pro-life and pro-choice on a sliding scale it would be more like this.
Pro-Life —— Pro-Choice —– Pro-Abortion
With Pro-Life advocating all pregnancies come to term, Pro-Choice advocating leaving that decision to the mother and Pro-Abortion advocating that all pregnancies be terminated. Please direct me to a group that is advocating aborting all fetus’, please.
That’s me. I advocate all zygotes be nipped in the bud….so to speak.
PP isn’t using this. It’s the people like me that are po’d that SGK bowed to political pressure and stopped their funding
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Does no one read these articles?
Komen was:
“…providing funds to Planned Parenthood centers for breast cancer examinations and other breast health services.”
They were not helping fund abortions at all. Shame on all of you who claim to be pulling your support from them. Why not try actually reading the article instead of flying off the cuff?
No, they were providing cover for the 12% profit that Planned Parenthood makes off of abortion.
Oh, and better yet, instead of reading the abbreviated article, read it at the WaPo:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ap-exclusive-amid-abortion-debate-komen-cancer-charity-halting-grants-to-planned-parenthood/2012/01/31/gIQA5LbffQ_print.html
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Note especially this line: “According to Planned Parenthood, its centers performed more than 4 million breast exams over the past five years, including nearly 170,000 as a result of Komen grants.”
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This means that only 1 in 25 breast exams done in the past 4 years were the result of Komen grants. So, 24 in 25 breasts exams continue!
They had no way of controlling what PP did with the money once they got it.
Ironically, Planned Parenthood prevents far more abortions than they perform. I will cancel my planned donation to Komen and immediately send the same amount to Planned Parenthood, and no more “Run for the Cure” donations from me!
False. Do the math. They claim to prevent 291,000 abortions annually, but perform over 332,000. That means they peform 41,000 more than they claim to prevent. Data sure is something, isn’t it, even when it comes from PP?
“In 2009, Planned Parenthood performed 332,278 abortions, from which it derives about $164,154,000, or 15% of its annual revenue. According to PPFA’s own estimates, its contraceptive services prevent approximately 612,000 unintended pregnancies and 291,000 abortions annually.”–sources: Media Matters, and Planned Parenthood.
I wonder how many of Komen’s contributers had known about their affiliation with Planned Parenthood to begin with. We certainly didn’t.
Because of the Susan Komen Foundation’s having given millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood, I have not supported the former in any way. They have convinced businesses to support them through certain products, but why wouldn’t they give that money directly for cancer research, instead of supplying it to this abortion facility? So many do not know how their donated money is being spent.
There is a direct link between abortion and breast cancer, also.
Since SGK’s decision to stop funding PP, PP has raised over $625,0000. Think of what SGK could have done with that money. How much has SGK raiased? Most people that are lauding the decision will never write a check to SGK.
Very interesting information:
http://www.thenation.com/blog/166026/komen-foundation-pinkwashes-anti-choicers-punks-planned-parenthood?rel=emailNation