Posted on 03/31/2011 8:47:31 AM PDT by wagglebee
Now that an expose’ has revealed Planned Parenthood abortion centers do not do mammograms on site but merely refer women to legitimate medical centers that do, a key organization that funds it is facing questions.
After concerns earlier this year that Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards made false claims in defending its taxpayer funding that it provides mammorams for women, the organization Live Action released videotaped footage of calls to 30 Planned Parenthood centers nationwide in 27 different states where abortion facility staff were asked whether or not mammograms could be performed on site. Every one of the Planned Parenthood centers admitted they could not do mammograms. Every Planned Parenthood, without exception, tells the women calling that they will have to go elsewhere for a mammogram, and many clinics admit that no Planned Parenthood clinics provide this breast cancer screening procedure.
“We don’t provide those services whatsoever,” admits a staffer at Planned Parenthood of Arizona while a staffer at Planned Parenthood’s Comprehensive Health Center clinic in Overland Park, Kansas tells a caller, “We actually don’t have a, um, mammogram machine, at our clinics.”
That information is now raising questions about the millions of dollars the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has given in grants to the abortion business, which it says is partly for mammograms.
Komen’s own figures show 20 of Komen’s 122 affiliates have made donations to Planned Parenthood and, last year, those contributions totaled $731,303. Komen spokesman John Hammarley also confirmed Komen affiliates contributed about $3.3 million to the abortion business from 2004-2009.
In a March 2011 statement about Planned Parenthood, Komen claims the grants to the Planned Parenthood abortion business are meant to help women with breast health.
“Early screening through mammograms and education is critical to end the suffering from this disease: 98 percent of women treated for early stage breast cancer, before it spreads, are alive five years later. The widespread use of mammography and heightened public awareness of breast cancer both contribute to these favorable statistics,” Komen says. “And while Komen Affiliates provide funds to pay for screening, education and treatment programs in dozens of communities, in some areas, the only place that poor, uninsured or under-insured women can receive these services are through programs run by Planned Parenthood.”
With Planned Parenthood not offering mammograms for women, SusanAnne Hiller of the conservative website Big Journalism wonders why Komen is making the grants.
“Now that LiveAction has proved that Planned Parenthood does not provide mammography services to its clients, what is the money being used for, because clearly is not for mammography screenings?” Hiller wonders. “Education, treatment? Are these questions we can expect our mainstream media propagandists to divulge in their articles? Or will the discovery stop with these citizen investigators and go unreported by the networks?”
Hiller also notes that Planned Parenthood only provides breast exams of the self-exam type women can do on their own or with a trusted friend or family member at home.
“However, the Komen memo links mammography, screenings, education, and treatment of breast cancer as their list of reasons it contributes to PP. It’s perpetuated all across the media without validation,” she says. “The Komen Foundation needs to come clean on specifically what those PP contributions are designated and why they really continue to support Planned Parenthood.”
ACTION: Send your concerns to Komen at http://ww5.komen.org/Contact.aspx
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I never donate money to the Susan B. Komen foundation because of their ties to Planned Parenthood.
>>>Planned Parenthood’s Comprehensive Health Center clinic in Overland Park, Kansas
Is apparently comprehensive in name only.
Wow!
When I see a product with a Susan G. Komen sticker on it, I refuse to buy, and this is why.
I suggest everyone go to Komen’s Facebook page, which is an open group page that anyone can join on the spot, and comment on this.
Bump!
The bottom line is that Komen can no longer substantiate their claim that the millions of dollars they give Big Murder has ANYTHING to do with breast cancer.
I hope this information gets out to all of those who are being influenced by Komen’s publicity saturation, which is simply everywhere I look. It’s all a fraud, and Komen and Planned Parenthood should be held accountable.
Will anything come of this, or will Koman simply continue with their contributions to Big Murder and say they’re for counseling services or something?
The left is good at sweeping stuff like this under the rug.
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Exactly right, and it's a very powerful weapon.
The reality is that there probably isn't an adult in the country that hasn't had someone close to them (wife, mother, sister, grandmother, aunt, daughter, etc.) suffer from breast cancer.
Yes, I do remember that. He briefly stopped taking his medication prior to testifying before the Senate.
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