Posted on 09/29/2004 10:06:04 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A medical research analyst for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation has resigned. She is upset that the group denies the link between abortion and breast cancer and has sent large grants to Planned Parenthood.
When confronted with data showing Komen made donations to Planned Parenthood, the information didn't sit well with Komen analyst Eve Sanchez Silver.
"The Foundation has done so much for so many women through its programs and research grants," Sanchez Silver told LifeNews.com. "But this revelation about Planned Parenthood and [Komen], indicates a well thought out funding strategy."
According to former Komen public relations director Kristin Kelly, Komen affiliates awarded $38.4 million in grants to support community outreach programs in 2003. That figure includes 21 grants to their local Planned Parenthood chapters totaling more than $475,000.
Sanchez Silver, a two-time breast cancer survivor and Komen's Hispanic advisor, said the decision to send Komen money to Planned Parenthood came at a time when local Komen affiliates were struggling to find enough funds to keep afloat.
"Our [Komen] Advisory Councils were all aware of grassroots efforts in need of funding all across the country," Sanchez Silver told LifeNews.com.
Sanchez Silver is the director of Cinta Latina Research, an organization that conducts research into breast cancer issues and their effects on minorities. She is concerned that Planned Parenthood targets minorities and noted that such groups have abortions at higher rates than Caucasians.
The focus on ethnic women also comes into play in Sanchez Silver's concerns that Komen ignores the abortion-breast cancer link.
Sanchez Silver says that women deserve to know the recent research showing a link exists and that women who have induced abortions are at greater risk for contracting breast cancer than women who carry the pregnancy to term.
However, for minorities, that risk can be even greater.
"Black and Latina women have very aggressive breast cancers, often reported very late, often, unhappily, too late," Sanchez Silver told LifeNews.com. "If there are facts to be known they should be broadcasted, not swept under the rug."
Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, applauded Sanchez Silver's courage. Her groups has frequently highlighted Komen's refusal to acknowledge the abortion-breast cancer link and funding of the nation's largest abortion business.
"The Susan G. Komen Foundation is one of the nation's largest cancer fundraising groups, and it's mission is supposedly dedicated to fighting breast cancer," Malec said.
When Sanchez Silver told the Komen board she was resigning, she said they "were gracious and accepting of my personal convictions."
She hopes her resignation will prompt Komen to reexamine its funding and research policies.
Related web sites:
Cinta Latina Research - http://www.cintalatina.org
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation -
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As a regular donor to the Komen Foundation--this tears it! They've seen the last of my donations!
Good to know this now. I believe Komen sponsors the race for the cure.
If she had know some of the money she raised was going to planned parenthood, she probably would not have participated and she will definitely not be going next year if I can help it.
I won't even send them my stupid yogurt tops.
Make sure you let them know!
Please consider supporting the American Cancer Society instead. They do a lot of great work with breast cancer survivors, including their Reach to Recovery program, which partners breast cancer survivors with those who have just had a breast removed to help them get over the emotional loss.
So, what this means is that generous donors who think they are helping women with breast cancer, may actually be subsidizing abortion?
This is outrageous.
I read this yesterday. Powerful stuff!!! Thanks for posting it.
My local organization here expressed its denial when challenged on this point in the form of a letter which I can't get to from here unfortunately, the gist of which states that they (Komen) audits the PP relationship and the fund flow carefully. They assured me that none of their funds were being used to support abortion practices at PP.
IMO if my Komen funding helps keep the lights on at PP its supporting abortion. PP isn't the monolith it is today by charging for the hour for parenthood counseling. They don't make a dime unless an abortion is performed. Its the core of their business model. Our tax dollars even support it, which infuriates me beyond the capacity of words to express it (written or spoken).
I will be sending this resignation notice far and wide to my circle of pro-life friends, and everyone I know who has participated in the Komen Race or as a contributor.
Abortion = The American Holocaust.
The nightmare continues...
Wow! I hope this official tells her story far and wide.
The more women with breast cancer, the more Komen's efforts are needed.
Is Komen, by its pro-choice provision of funds to Planned Parenthood, assisting in the "manufacturing" of the problem, thereby ensuring its organization's continuing relevance?
Your bride works, literally by the sweat of her brow, to help fund research for a terrifying disease, yet the very organization for whom she dedicates her efforts participates, by its funding, in the "manufacturing" of the very victims it is supposed to be helping!
Deception is of the devil - he's a liar and the father of it.
Much thanks to your beloved for her care.
I don't understand why Komen would think they have the right to make donations to ANY organization that wasn't doing research on breast cancer. That seems like a GROSS misuse of their funds. I would even think it might, or at should be, illegal. I don't think people that donate to Komen know that their money is being spent this way.
Another example of how evil so many of these phoney non profits are.
Fund PP so they can do more abortions which can relate to more breast cancers, so this non profit can get more donations for the execs who control the non profit.
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