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News Print Article | Email Friend | Reprint Permissions Komen deluged with pro-abortion complaints: pro-lifers urged to rally in support
by Patrick B. Craine
Wed Feb 01, 2012 13:18 EST Comments (8) Tags: abortion, komen for the cure, planned parenthood
DALLAS, Texas, February 1, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life leaders are calling on supporters to rally to the defense of the Susan G. Komen Foundation as the organization is being barraged with criticism from pro-abortion advocates in the wake of its decision to cut off funds to Planned Parenthood.
Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam), who has been in touch with Komen advisors since yesterday, told LifeSiteNews that as of last night Komen had received 2,000 e-mails from Planned Parenthood backers and only 64 from pro-lifers.
News broke yesterday that Komen, the largest funder of breast cancer research in America, was cutting ties with Planned Parenthood after seven years of pressure from the pro-life movement.
Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun told media that the decision was made in light of new criteria barring Komen from having a relationship with organizations under investigation by government authorities. Planned Parenthood is currently under investigation by a U.S. House committee over concerns about its reporting of criminal conduct and mishandling of federal funds.
Aun’s statement seemed to suggest that the abortion giant could qualify for funding again should they be cleared by all state and federal investigations.
But Ruse said that is not true, because Planned Parenthood was also disqualified for funding because they do not actually offer mammograms. He pointed to a statement on Komen’s Facebook page Wednesday indicating their new focus on “outcomes-driven” approaches to delivering services.
“They have changed their grant criteria from what they call pass-throughs to outcome-based programs,” Ruse explained. “Planned Parenthood doesn’t do mammograms, for instance. They would refer people to doctors who do mammograms. So that’s a pass-through.”
“Even if all of the investigations go away, they’re still left with this change in the funding criteria,” he added.
According to American Life League’s Stop Planned Parenthood project (STOPP), Komen affiliates contributed $629,159 to Planned Parenthood affiliates in 2009-2010.
Ruse noted that Komen will be sending five more grants to Planned Parenthood because of pre-existing contractual agreements. “Once those are done, there will be no more,” he said.
The other major concern for pro-lifers was Komen’s support for embryonic stem cell research. But a new statement on their website, dated Nov. 30th, 2011, indicates that Komen funds stem cell research only where the stem cells are “derived without creating a human embryo or destroying a human embryo.”
A report by LifeNews.com on Tuesday suggested Komen’s move may have had something to do with the organization’s Senior Vice President of Public Policy, Karen Handel, who joined them in April 2011.
Handel ran for Governor of Georgia in 2010 on a pro-life ticket, with a platform dedicated to defunding Planned Parenthood.
Asked if pro-lifers can now be confident in supporting the Komen Foundation, Ruse said, “Can pro-lifers support Komen? I say not only can they, but they should to show appreciation to the Komen Foundation for doing the right thing. We should be flooding their inbox with thanks.”
“[Planned Parenthood] is raising money on this, they’re attacking Komen,” he added. “So our side really has to rally to Komen’s defense and thank them. Then turn our fire back on Planned Parenthood.”
To let Komen know your thoughts, write news@komen.org.
I won't be donating to Komen--
Email sent.
Word spread.
I hope the people at Komen don’t change their minds about this. They will need great courage!
I can come out of the closet now. This will be my third year to do the 3day walk, previously twice in San Diego and this year in the Twin Cities. SGK is a wonderful organization and training for and doing the walks has been amazing. I’ll be 64 in a couple of months and this is keeping me going. I have struggled with this conflict and I’m thrilled that they have disengaged from PP. I guess now their slogan, Everyone Deserves a Lifetime, really means what it says.
Because Komen has had to know for years exactly the link between abortion and cancer, and the severe affliction of the heart their support to PP has inflicted on incalcuable numbers of consumers and activists, it is further disgusting that some kind of an email contest between pro-Life and Anti-Life forces could even determine Komen’s long term decision to fund or not to fund killing the innocent in the womb.
Komen has funded barbary for so long, it makes it very hard to trust them on this lull, but praying that GOD Himself moves in this battle, I continue to do. + + +
bump
Pink is the color of LIVE babies. KOMEN should use perhaps the death pale of grey/blue babies.
Sorry, but KOMEN has funded barbary, and now we see a temporary lull in their funding of the butchery of the most innocent in the womb.
Reason would tell anyone with a brain to “trust, but verify” before even touching a product in KOMEN pink.
I shutter at every sight of their pink ribbon crap and after I recover from the abhorrence, it gives cause to pray and hard.
That’s all a big question still up in the air. As PP has become more infamous for being a charade, Komen has found itself suffering from the fallout. It’s up to Komen whether to do the obviously right thing. Giving funds to an agency that might suggest a mammogram just ain’t the same thing as giving funds to agencies that DO mammograms. And getting and keeping their noses clean from the abortion scene will obviously help them gain support.
Even the lull will open up a window for them to see what life sans PP is like. I think they’ll like it better than they thought they would.
This should be a lesson to folks who say boycotting doesn’t work. I even stopped buying products, that I formerly used, because they contributed to Komen.
I would never give them a penny if I were richer than Bill Gates
Yes, but emails are cheap support, and a way to determine just how they reached their decision, fundamental change in philosophy, which might be worth more than an email, or just more of the same old hit me in the pocket book and watch me squeal.
Abortion
Although there has been some debate in the past about the link between abortion (also called induced abortion) and breast cancer risk, research clearly shows no link between the two [450]. Since 2003, the Board of Scientific Advisors and Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), as well as the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, have agreed the scientific evidence does not support a link between abortion and breast cancer [451-452]. The NCI routinely reviews the evidence on this topic and continues to agree the evidence does not support a link between the two [453].
The importance of study design for research on abortion and breast cancer risk
Some case-control studies have suggested abortion may increase the risk of breast cancer [454]. However, the nature of case-control studies makes the accuracy of their results questionable.
Case-control studies rely on the reporting of past behavior. When it comes to a sensitive topic like abortion, this can have a big impact on the information gathered. The cases in these studies (the women with breast cancer) may be much more likely to give complete information about their abortion history than the controls (the women without breast cancer). Such differences in reporting can bias study results.
Prospective cohort studies are much more likely to give accurate results on the topic of abortion. These studies gather sensitive information before women are diagnosed with breast cancer. This helps limit biased reporting. The results from cohort studies show abortion does not increase the risk of breast cancer [451,455-462].
Until they admit that there is at least a possible correlation or link I will still not support them.
I wondered what Karen Handel was doing these days. She would have made a great governor.
On thier website they deny the link, see my post 36
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A bit more info about Komen - they could use pro-life support right now.
Let the baby killers fund Komen....I won’t. I know what they’re about. It’s Money and misplaced ideology, not cancer in women...it’s just a means to money and influence
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