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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on January 31, 2012, 08:34:20 PM
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For years and years, the Susan G. Komen Foundation has pointlessly given money to Planned Parenthood, despite the fact that Planned Parenthood’s claims regarding breast exams have been exposed as wildly exaggerated. Today, after years of work by pro-life activists, that ends:
NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates — creating a bitter rift, linked to the abortion debate, between two iconic organizations that have assisted millions of women.
The change will mean a cutoff of hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants, mainly for breast exams.
Planned Parenthood says the move results from Komen bowing to pressure from anti-abortion activists. Komen says the key reason is that Planned Parenthood is under investigation in Congress — a probe launched by a conservative Republican who was urged to act by anti-abortion groups.
The AP’s phrasing here is of course – millions of unborn women have been somewhat less than “helped†by Planned Parenthood, in addition to an unknown number of women involved in the sex trafficking trade. In any event, one of America’s most unabashedly corrupt and evil organizations has lost some of its funding, which is cause for at least some rejoicing.
Redstate (http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2012/01/31/susan-g-komen-ends-relationship-with-planned-parenthood/)
Good. It's about time.
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Good. Never did understand SGKs support of that organization.
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Wonderful news. I haven't donated to Susan G. Komen because of the relationship, but I felt guilty about it because they one of the largest Breast Cancer research organizations. Now I can donate guilt free
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Top Susan G. Komen Official Resigned Over Planned Parenthood Cave-In
An entirely avoidable, and deeply regrettable, controversy has been raging this week over the decision by the (formerly highly esteemed) Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, the world's leading breast-cancer-research advocacy group, to cut its support for Planned Parenthood, which used Komen dollars (about $600,000 annually) to pay for breast-screening exams for poor people.
Komen, the marketing juggernaut that brought the world the ubiquitous pink-ribbon campaign, says it cut off Planned Parenthood because of a newly adopted foundation rule prohibiting it from funding any group that is under formal investigation by a government body. Planned Parenthood is being investigated by Representative Cliff Stearns, an anti-abortion Florida Republican, who says he is trying to learn if the group spent public money to provide abortions.
But three sources with direct knowledge of the Komen decision-making process told me that the rule was adopted in order to create an excuse to cut off Planned Parenthood.
The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/02/top-susan-g-komen-official-resigned-over-planned-parenthood-cave-in/252405/)
No, there's no pro-abortion zeal bias in this story at all. Of course not!
Good riddance. The sooner Planned Parenthood and the Democratic Party are out of taxpayers pockets, the better.
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Good. I don't give money to Komen for two reasons (was three but now...)
1. Heart disease kills more women
2. They spent donor money suing other non-profits over the phrase 'for the cure'.
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Why Did Komen Stop Funding Planned Parenthood?… They Don’t Do Mammograms. Period.
During a conference call with reporters this afternoon, Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure CEO Nancy Brinker and President Elizabeth Thompson revealed the main reason why the Planned Parenthood abortion business lost its funding. It doesn’t do mammograms.
“It was nothing they were doing wrong,” Brinker explained. “We have decided not to fund, wherever possible, pass-through grants. We were giving them money, they were sending women out for mammograms. What we would like to have are clinics where we can directly fund mammograms.”
Gateway Pundit (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/02/why-did-komen-stop-funding-planned-parenthood-they-dont-do-mammograms-period/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gatewaypundit2+%28Gateway+Pundit%29&utm_content=FaceBook)
Why bother wasting resources on mammograms when your ultimate goal is murdering babies?
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Susan G. Koman for the Cure has reversed its decision to end grants to Planned Parenthood after twenty-two Democratic senators sent a letter to the group's founder and CEO urging it to reconsider the decision.
http://news.yahoo.com/susan-g--komen-foundation-reverses-decision-to-end-grants-to-planned-parenthood.html
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Komen apologizes for 'recent decisions,' pledges to continue funding Planned Parenthood
The Susan G. Komen Foundation, the U.S. breast-cancer awareness entity blasted for ending its Planned Parenthood funding, said Friday it reversed its decision.
"We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives," Komen Foundation founder and Chief Executive Officer Nancy G. Brinker said in a statement released on Business Wire. "We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not."
She said the original goal was a "fiduciary duty" to the organizations donors by not funding applications made by organizations under investigation. House Republicans are investigating whether Planned Parenthood is using federal funds for abortions.
"We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political," Brinker said. "That is what is right and fair."
UPI (http://www.wlac.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104668&article=9709766#ixzz1lLJzbiKr)
:thatsright:
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yesterday "we will not cave to political badgering..."
today "...after this"
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Well any more request to support them is going to be ignored.
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Glad I didn't get a check out to them yet.
Back to "save the boobies, kill the babies."
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Glad I didn't get a check out to them yet.
Back to "save the boobies, kill the babies."
Heard some women on the radio today asking how to get their money back.
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Once again, the left uses the excuse that someone "caved to the religious right" in order to cover their own fascist reaction and the huge political and PR pressure they immediately place on any organization that breaks with their Sacred Cows -Planned Parenthood and abortion. The secular theocracy in this country is amazing.
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How does giving grants to planned parenthood help breast cancer research anyway? Why exactly is Komen giving them money?
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How does giving grants to planned parenthood help breast cancer research anyway? Why exactly is Komen giving them money?
The official line is that Planned Parenthood does manual breast cancer screenings and refers women to clinics for mammograms. Somehow, it is more important to the left and the media to see PP get that money instead of seeing Komen pay for mammograms at the clinics performing them. Altogether, just another excuse to continue to support the bloodbath. After all, PP is able to buy off quite a large number of politicians between their huge income and their media/PR clout.