Susan G. Komen Foundation in Aspen Gives Grant to Planned Parenthood

LIfe News ^ | 12.06.06 | Steven Ertelt

[Coleus]

Aspen, CO (LifeNews.com) -- The Aspen, Colorado affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation is the latest to give money generated from its Race for the Cure event to the nation's largest abortion business. This is despite significant research showing abortion increases the risk of contracting breast cancer.    The group has part of its proceeds to Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, which operates abortion centers in western states, including Colorado.

The Aspen Komen group's web site indicates the organization gave Planned Parenthood a $12,887 grant, but the local newspaper in Aspen indicates the grant totals in excess of $14,000.    Aspen Komen says the grants will be used specifically to fund breast exams, mammograms and ultrasounds for uninsured and underinsured women in the Glenwood Springs area, with a focus on the Latina community.   Claudia Currey Hill, the group's executive director, did not return by press time a call from LifeNews.com seeking comment on the grant.  The grant ironically comes after Colorado pro-life advocates held a meeting with national Komen officials about their Planned Parenthood grants and abortion's link to breast cancer.

Former Komen medical research analyst and Hispanic outreach director Eve Sanchez Silver and Dr. Joel Brind, a professor at New York's Baruch College met with the SGK officials in Denver in October.  The meeting also included board members of Colorado Right to Life and came just one day before Silver addressed the group's annual banquet. Silver, who resigned form Komen after learning that their affiliates had made significant contributions to Planned Parenthood, discussed the meeting in a statement LifeNews.com received. 

"SGK officials did not appear to have knowledge of simple breast facts," Silver said.  Silver explained that the breast is an organ that is not mature at birth and SGK officials appeared to be surprised to learn that the breast does not become fully mature until after 32 weeks of pregnancy.  As a result of that state of development, interruption of pregnancy via an abortion before 32 weeks leaves breast cells exposed to estrogen, which is highly carcinogenic.

She indicated the Komen representatives also appeared to be "more concerned about assisting women after they had contracted breast cancer, than informing them to avoid breast cancer risk by avoiding abortions and having [an] early, full term pregnancy."   "This is an appalling lack of concern for the women the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation is supposed to be helping," Silver added.

During the meeting, Brind, the foremost authority on the breast cancer-abortion link, said Komen's funding Planned Parenthood made no sense because abortions are one of the biggest causes of breast cancer.  He pointed out that breast cancer cases have risen 40 percent since abortion was made virtually unlimited in the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade.   In 1996, Brind and other researchers conducted analysis of all the major studies done in the field to that time. They concluded that women who had an abortion before their first term child had a 50% increased risk of developing breast cancer while women who had an abortion after their first child sustained a 30% increased risk.

Silver resigned from Komen in September 2004 after the organization told her it would not stop funding Planned Parenthood.    "The Foundation has done so much for so many women through its programs and research grants," Sanchez Silver told LifeNews.com at the time. "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.  Sanchez Silver is now the director of Cinta Latina Research, an organization that conducts research into breast cancer issues and their effects on minorities.

ACTION: Contact the Aspen chapter of the Susan G. Komen Foundation at Box 4810, Aspen, CO 81612, (p) 970-920-0250, (f) 970-920-3571, or email komenaspen@sopris.net.

Related web sites:
Cinta Latina Research - http://www.cintalatina.org
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation - http://www.komen.org
Eve Sanchez Silver - http://stopabortionbreastcancer.org
National Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer - http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com

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[AliVeritas]

Of course, why do you think those "No cancer link to abortion", studies come from?

Disgusting... like everything around the culture of death.

P.S. Did you hear the podcast/stream from Sekulow (ACLJ), re: defunding Planned Parenthood update?

http://www.townhall.com

Go to talk radio.

[Captain Peter Blood]

They will never get another dime of my money for their Foundation.

[YoungSoutherner]

This is very upsetting I have donated money to Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

[Cicero]

I'm afraid it's not a surprise.

I remember when I was a kid I gave to the March of Dimes. Even that was perverted.

[pandoraou812]

I have many times and I am not happy about this. I doubt I will be donating anymore money to them.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Same here. My Mom, a full time caregiver, needed help with my dieing Grandpa. All we heard were.....crickets chirping. As an adult all I can say is not one dime! Same bureaucracy as the Red Cross!

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Jay Sekulow Rocks!!

[goodnesswins]

That's why almost 100% of money we give goes to our VERY conservative Presbyterian Church, the Salvation Army or specific individuals! Socialistic giving is for.....SOCIALISTS!

[reg45]

More money for Planned Parenthood equals more abortions.
More abortions equals more breast cancer.
More breast cancer equals more money for breast cancer research.
More money for breast cancer research equals more money for The Susan G. Koman Foundation.
and so on, and so on, etc., ad infinitum.

[goodnesswins]

YEP...follow the MONEY!

[Coleus]

The problem is that the supposedly pro-life, devout Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, Republican Congressmen have voted for Title X funding planned parenthood every year since it was written in 1969 by George hw Bush, signed by Nixon. More money was appropriated during the Bush administration, over $1.3 Billion, than in Clinton's. 1.3 billion to planned parenthood, $0 to crisis pregnancy centers.

[Huber]

This relationship has gone on for years. The Komen foundation has made the claim that planned parenthood is the only available research or testing facility in some geographies.

I make a point of always visiting the registration/donation tables for Race for the Cure and asking if the Komen foundation has discontinued its association with PP. The volunteer is either unaware of the history, in which case its a perfect opportunity to educate her (you'd be surprised how many are shocked and concerned to find out). If the volunteer is knowledgable and comfortable with the Planned Parenthood relationship, they occasionally get aggressive, which is fine. Either way, its an opportunity to politely inform them that you would very much like to support breast cancer research, but it would be against your conscience to inadvertantly fund an abortion organization.

This is a very powerful message if done gently and consistently.

[rintense]

Me too. I will still do the walk in honor of those who have died, but will choose to donate my money to another breast cancer fund.

[goodnesswins]

Well...OUR church works specifically with a CRISIS Pregnancy group.

[Generic_Login_1787]

This is disappointing. I did the walk in D.C. twice to support one coworker and add numbers to another one's donation drive.

Might be worthwhile to support that splinter group if you're (we're?) so inclined.

[Lesforlife]

I sat face to face with the Komen Foundation and Denver's
Race for the Cure chairwoman. We were told they no longer fund
Planned Parenthood.

I was equipped with a report from Indianapolis RTL, which showed
funding from Komen to PP in 2006.

This new report of funding to Aspen's PP shows their ongoing
duplicity!!

For the complete reporting of our meeting and our protest of the
Denver Race for the Cure, contact Colorado Right to Life at
303-753-9394.

Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life

[beethoven]

People are better off donating to women's centers in their own local areas. We found out less than 17% of the money collected by my group would remain in our community. We dropped them and keep our donations local for women's issues. They're also a pain to work with.

[Lesforlife]

When asked why they don't tell women about the abc link,
they responded that they tend to focus on the cure not
the prevention!

Of course.

If they promoted prevention, they'd have no need for the big
bucks events.