Your asinine statements abound on this thread, but for the sake of simplicity, I will cover them here.
How, and please be specific, is anyone trying to cut funding for breast cancer screening?
Are you under the impression that Planned Parenthood is the ONLY organization that the Komen Foundation can give money to?
Can you even explain why Planned Parenthood is the BEST organization for Komen to give money to? As I have repeatedly pointed out (a point that you have IGNORED), the main expense of breast cancer screening is for mammograms. Mammograms ARE NOT RECOMMENDED FOR WOMEN UNDER 40 and simple logic should indicate that the vast majority of woman going to Planned Parenthood are WELL UNDER 40. So, I think it is reasonable to say that the Komen Foundation is harming women by not appropriating funds where they will do the most good. There are plenty of clinics that DO treat women over the age of 40, why not send money there?
Another FACT that you have systematically IGNORED is that the two main facets of Planned Parenthood's business (abortion and birth control pills) both INCREASE the risk of breast cancer. Komen is HARMING WOMEN by failing to address this (in fact they deny it). Is Komen crusading to end breast cancer or are they just raising money to screen for it.
Additionally, and this is probably either out of ignorance or obstinacy, you fail to grasp the reality that ANY MONEY Planned Parenthood receives helps them cover overhead and allows them to keep the cost of abortions down.
Breast cancer kills about 40,000 Americans a year, abortion kills about 25,000 Americans a WEEK. Everyone hopes that one day soon all of the breast cancer deaths can be prevented, all of the abortion deaths can be prevented RIGHT NOW.
Several times on this thread you have stated that abortion clinic bombers probably don't consider people like me pro-life enough. But, yet again, you are wrong. They don't consider me anti-abortion enough. There is a difference between people who are pro-life and people who are simply anti-abortion. The pro-life movement DOES NOT believe in killing innocent people, the fringe of the anti-abortion movement has no problem with killing anyone.
That should be repeated over and over and over again. Why would anyone brush that off? An organization that claims to be fighting against breast cancer is actually invested in spreading it.
It reminds me of when people donated money to the Red Cross to help victims of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, and the Red Cross sent those funds to Afghanistan. I don't give to the Red Cross (American or International). Does that mean I want American victims of disasters to die from neglect? No. It means I understand what that money is actually funding, and I refuse to fund the enemy.
I refuse to fund Planned Parenthood, so I don't (knowingly) fund their contributors, like the Komen Foundation. I like that the products connected to them are clearly marked bright pink, so I can easily avoid them.
There are those of us who are opposed to wasting money under the guise of providing breast cancer screening by donating it to where it’s going to do the least amount of good.
The BEST option is to PREVENT breast cancer in the first place and that is NOT by giving it to an organization which provides “services” that are responsible for the increase in breast cancer.
If breast cancer screening is their real goal, as opposed to just finding an excuse to support PP and look like heroes to the “pro-women” crowd, then they can give the monies to breast screening clinics or radiology departments in local hospitals to use in the form of grants for women whose medical coverage doesn’t include mammograms.
I daresay that the majority of the women who need breast cancer screening the most are more likely to visit a local hospital for some procedure than they will be going to PP for medical care. PP is not going to have an ER room, nor do routine lab work.
When a woman over 40 visits a local hospital for any reason, she can always be asked then if she’d like breast cancer screening done and told about grants available.
Giving to PP is just a stealth way of supporting abortion and breast cancer.