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Susan G. Komen for the Cure awards 72 grants to Planned Parenthood in 2000-2005 period
Biothethics Defense Fund ^ | Dorinda C. Bordlee, Esq.

Posted on 10/08/2007 8:31:34 PM PDT by Coleus

Susan G. Komen for the Cure awards 72 grants to Planned Parenthood in 2000-2005 period


October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer detection, prevention, research and treatment are of the utmost importance due to the devastating impact that this disease has on women and their families.

Pro-life citizens who are interested in fighting this deadly disease should be aware that one breast cancer organization, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, has a policy of offering financial support to abortion providing facilities.

Here are the Komen-Planned Parenthood facts (followed by a list of alternative organizations):

• Planned Parenthood is the number one provider of abortions in the United States. During its 2005-2006 fiscal year, the nonprofit Planned Parenthood Federation of America performed a record 264,943 abortions according to its annual report.

• Susan G. Komen for the Cure awarded 72 grants to Planned Parenthood afflilates during the years 2000 through 2005. These grants are reported on the Susan G. Komen website by entering “Planned Parenthood” on
Komen’s searchable grant page.

• Nancy Brinker, Komen Founder, was listed as an advisory board member in the
2002 annual report of Planned Parenthood of North Texas, the fifth largest Planned Parenthood affiliate in the nation.

• Komen claims that grant money to Planned Parenthood is for breast services only, but Planned Parenthood records show that their
breast services are declining while their abortion numbers are increasing. Are "breast services" simply window dressing to attract women into abortion clinics?

• In September of 2004,
Eve Sanchez Silver, a breast cancer survivor and charter member of Komen’s Hispanic/Latina Advisory Council, resigned from Komen, stating, “As a Christian and life affirming citizen I can not reconcile the Foundation's decision to affirm life with one hand and support its destruction with the other.”

• Because Komen refused to stop providing grants to Planned Parenthood, Curves, a privately held fitness franchise firm owned by women’s health advocate Gary Heavin, ceased supporting Komen events. Here is Komen’s response by its Public Relations Manager Kristin Kelly:


"The Komen Foundation is confident that none of its community Affiliates have stopped funding Planned Parenthood as a result of the pressure from Curves, Operation Save America or any other organization. In fact, when faced with opposition from Curves or the threat that Curves franchises would no longer support the Foundation unless Planned Parenthood funding was eliminated, the Komen Foundation told Mr. Heavin (founder and CEO of Curves) that we would not, in any way, undermine the integrity of our grant-making process. In addition the Foundation told Mr. Heavin that it would continue to allow Komen Affiliates to provide breast health education and screening grants to Planned Parenthood if the grant application was approved through the process outlined above. As a result, Curves chose to suspend its support of Komen Affiliate events, including sponsorship of the Komen Race for the Cure (r). In 2003, Komen Affiliates awarded $38.4 million in grants to support community outreach programs, including 21 grants to their local Planned Parenthood chapters totaling more than $475,000."

Source: Komen website as copied into Powerpoint Presentation by Eve Sanchez, former Komen board member, http://stopabortionbreastcancer.org/talks/denver_silver060930.pdf

• In June 2007, Komen’s funding to Planned Parenthood resulted in a policy of non-support from the St. Louis Archdiocese based on facts outlined in their position statement.

Click here for breast cancer organizations that do not support abortion facilities or destructive human embryo experimentation.

http://www.bdfund.org/breastcancer.asp 
Media contact:Dorinda C. Bordlee, Esq., 504-231-7234 info@BDFund.org 

The National Breast Cancer Foundation funds mammograms:

Click Here To Visit The National Breast Cancer Foundation

Abortion-Breast Cancer Education:

Breast Cancer
Prevention Institute

Full information on avoidable risks including abortion and alternatives to hormone use for contraception and postmenopausal medication.

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
Educational material on the political and media cover-up of the link between abortion and breast cancer.

American Cancer Society
Provides funding for evidence-based breast cancer research and support programs.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: abclink; breastcancer; komen; moralabsolutes; plannedparenthood; raceforthecure; susangkomen

1 posted on 10/08/2007 8:31:38 PM PDT by Coleus
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To: Coleus

Money laundering, plain and simple.

I wonder how much of Planned Parenthood’s gifts go to HillPAC?


2 posted on 10/08/2007 8:40:47 PM PDT by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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To: Coleus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1908016/posts

The murder of unborn babies increases the chances of breast cancer.

3 posted on 10/08/2007 8:42:49 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto)
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To: Old Sarge

Too bad we don’t have a competent AG who can look into this.


4 posted on 10/08/2007 8:43:33 PM PDT by darkangel82 (All right! Let's go Tribe!!)
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To: darkangel82

Well, it’s a chance for the next Buckhead Moment...


5 posted on 10/08/2007 8:46:14 PM PDT by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

That’s what I thought about when I started reading this. Thanks for the link.

I guess it’s time for me to sign up at Curves again.


6 posted on 10/08/2007 9:03:57 PM PDT by LilAngel (Pray)
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To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...
Breast Cancer Walkers Uninformed about Abortion Link, Komen Foundation gives to Planned Parenthood

The Science, Studies and Sociology of the Abortion Breast Cancer Link

7 posted on 10/08/2007 9:18:12 PM PDT by Coleus (Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: Coleus

I’m getting very tired of pink everywhere this month. I went to buy office supplies today and encountered pink flash drives, for heaven’s sake! A couple of years ago we took our 5th grade son out of school for the morning because the PTO organized a “walk for the cure” during school hours, benefiting the Komen Foundation. I wrote to the superintendent to complain about this taking place instead of academic activities, but he never responded. People I speak with are often quite shocked at the Komen/PP connection.


8 posted on 10/08/2007 11:07:33 PM PDT by Think free or die
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To: Coleus

BTTT


9 posted on 10/09/2007 4:42:36 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: Coleus; nickcarraway; narses; Mr. Silverback; Canticle_of_Deborah; TenthAmendmentChampion; ...
Pro-Life PING

Please FreepMail me if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.

10 posted on 10/09/2007 5:23:07 AM PDT by cpforlife.org (A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available at KnightsForLife.org)
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To: Old Sarge
I wonder how much of Planned Parenthood’s gifts go to HillPAC?

Um...the problem here is that Hillary supports PP, more than vice versa. The name of the game is human life, not politics.

11 posted on 10/09/2007 7:01:31 AM PDT by Romulus ("Ira enim viri iustitiam Dei non operatur")
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To: cpforlife.org; Coleus

thanks for the post and the ping.

Komen’s response to Heavin’s concerns is quite arrogant.


12 posted on 10/09/2007 11:24:04 AM PDT by cyn
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To: pillut48

ping


13 posted on 03/25/2011 7:24:17 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: iowamark

Thank you for the ping, iowamark. I never knew. :*(
I will be much more diligent researching backgrounds of charities in the future! You haven’t heard anything bad about Samaritan’s Purse, have you? (The Franklin Graham organization)


14 posted on 03/25/2011 7:47:33 PM PDT by pillut48 (Israel doesn't have a friend in President Obama...and neither does the USA! (h/t pgkdan))
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To: pillut48

No, I have not heard anything bad about Samaritan’s Purse.


15 posted on 03/26/2011 1:06:52 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

That’s right.

That’s why the Komen foundation will never see a dime from me.


16 posted on 03/26/2011 1:18:02 AM PDT by derllak
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