Posted on 02/03/2012 7:17:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The drama continues to deepen.
When the board of directors of the Susan G. Komen Foundation decided to halt funding to notorious abortion provider Planned Parenthood, abortion activists launched an informal investigation. Something sinister was happening here; some pro-life plague had to have infiltrated Komen. They pinned their attention on Komen’s relatively new VP, Karen Handel, an admittedly pro-life former Republican candidate for the governor of Georgia. They pointed out that the announcement of Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns’ investigation into Planned Parenthood preceded Komen’s revision of its grant eligibility criteria, which now excludes any organization under investigation by local, state or national government. From that, they concluded that Komen tweaked its criteria precisely to exclude Planned Parenthood. Komen made the rule to exclude under-investigation organizations just because Planned Parenthood was under investigation.
Now, critics of Komen’s decision bring up almost gleefully the resignation of Komen’s top public health official, Mollie Williams. While Williams herself has not said whether her resignation was a reaction to Komen’s decision, National Journal reports that her former senior communications adviser says she left because she just couldn’t stay at an organization that would bow to pressure from the anti-abortion right. Further confirmation that Komen’s decision was politically motivated!
OK, I say. Let’s say it was. Let’s say Komen decided to drop funding to PP because they didn’t want a penny of the money they work so creatively to raise to go to an organization that also provides abortions. Komen officials knew Komen grant money was earmarked by Planned Parenthood expressly for cancer screenings, but they also knew that any dollar Planned Parenthood didn’t have to come up with itself for a cancer screening was a dollar the organization could put toward an abortion instead. Komen officials didn’t want to make abortion any easier or more available than it already is.
So what? Does that lessen the nobility of Komen’s mission to fight breast cancer? Komen did have something to gain by bowing to pro-life pressure — credibility as an organization exclusively dedicated to the eradication of breast cancer and as an organization uniquely poised to receive donations from pro-choice and pro-life donors who, alike, want to eliminate a silent killer of women.
Do the very same folks who say that cancer doesn’t care whether you’re pro-choice or pro-life care whether a cancer-fighting organization is pro-choice or pro-life? Apparently, they do. Even liberal senators want in on the act of criticizing Komen: The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent reports that two dozen senators have written a letter to Komen’s directors to ask them to reconsider the Planned Parenthood decision. If all these critics were pleading with Komen just to ensure that the women who in the past have turned to Planned Parenthood for Komen-funded cancer screenings will still have access to those services some other way, then I would understand. But they’re not; they’re explicitly pleading with Komen to fund Planned Parenthood, as though PP is the only organization that can use Komen’s money to provide low-income women with life-saving services.
This decision has caused a stir for one reason and one reason only: It has revealed that it is possible to advocate for “women’s health” without advocating for “abortion rights.” Do abortion rights activists now want to admit by their disowning of Komen that they don’t actually care about other aspects of women’s health? Or might they admit that an organization focused solely on the prevention and treatment of breast cancer need not donate to an organization that is far less focused in its mission — and even promotes procedures that some consider harmful to women — to prove its “women’s health” credentials?
So what. Bring in NEW executives who are dedicated to the true mission of the organization — fighting breast cancer.
What is so hard about this? There ARE other solutions besides herding everyone over to PP for “healthcare.”
excellent
maybe I have to send them some money
Planned Parenthood does not have ANY mammography equipment.
Planned Parenthood does not perform cancer screenings.
All they do is make referrals. The Department of Health, local library and Internet already have that well-covered.
Leftists love THEMSELVES.
Likely, these two women were involved in abortions in some way, directly or indirectly.
When the foundation pulled the funding, that implied that there was something morally wrong with abortion, and that first step on that slippery slope is the slipperiest - the bottom of that slope is the realization that “you committed murder”.
Leftists love themselves, and love to think of themselves as good people. They know they can’t be a “good person” and be a murderer at the same time, so they must squelch any indication that what they did was wrong. This is why pro-aborts HATE, HATE, HATE pro-lifers, because their mere existence points out the murderous intent in the hearts of the pro-aborts.
“Women’s health” is a cover word for abortion for these people.
Whenever you hear the term, you should stop the speaker and question their use of the term -
“do you mean cancer screenings, pap smears, pre-natal care, etc, or do you really just mean abortion?”
The pro-aborts on facebook are squealing like the stuck pigs they are.
Stand firm, Susan G. Komen Foundation!!!! Don’t bow to abortionist pressure!
“Planned Parenthood” is a vile organization with links to the eugenics movement and Nazism. But all the death-cult “liberal” politicians bow and scrape to PP like some sacred cow, just as they bow to that other Nazi-linked death cult, islam.
I’ve supported Komen with significant funds for years but until last year I didn’t know about the Planned Parenthood connection. I had a serious debate with myself about whether to continue my support but decided to continue for at least this year.
I was vastly relieved when they announced they would stop supporting Planned Parenthood. If they reneg on this I will stop sending them money.
I went on the Komen Facebook site and the lib twats are having a melt down over this. What a bunch of evil cry babies.
To the general public it seems that being able to kill your baby is more important than saving your life from breast cancer. Free sex trumps long life.
Are we sure we are representing “women’s health” here, or rather, man’s penis?
I don’t think this was a quickly made decision. I suspect that many in the Komen organization and specifically the board were bothered by the inclusion of PP and they have finally found a graceful way out.
This probably goes back a number years and it is just recently that they decided to go with a low key exit.
PP has really hurt Komen. I know a lot of women who distrust Komen because of their relationship with PP and it will take a few years to build back that trust. I think they made a great decision and executed it beautifully.
Planned Parenthood does not perform cancer screenings.
Statement one may be true.
Statement two is clearly false. We'll have a better shot at wining the argument without overstating things.
What is the Susan G. Komen site? I’ll go and donate, and tell them it is because they have stopped associating with the pro-infanticide industry.
Actuall Planned Parenthood are taking money OUT OF THE SYSTEM by only making referrals.
The administrative costs alone must be astronomical.
´Makes Hitler seem like a piker.
Better get to it quick. Pro-choicers are going to do their best to destroy the Komen organization from here on out.
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