There are hospitals across the country which the poor can go to to get mammograms.
If the Komen Foundation wanted to really help in breast cancer screening, they could donate to them, or use the money to open breast clinics in poor neighborhoods. Or provide transportation for those poor women to get mammograms.
Women go to PP for abortions and birth control. Those of childbearing age are not the group that needs the breast cancer screening the most.
Giving money to an organization which doesn’t even cater to those at highest risk is ludicrous. It’s a total, irresponsible waste of money. They’re only lying by pretending to do something useful when they’re not.
Under normal circumstances, women under 40 aren't given mammograms AT ALL. They feel for lumps themselves and their doctors check during routine exam, no special funding is needed for this.
Unless someone can name a PP clinic which routinely treats significant numbers of post-menopausal women, this is a sham.
Why don’t you discuss this with Komen?
Oh, yeah, your mind is made up already and you know exactly how they should run their business...even without checking out the facts.
Is it possible that those 20 or so clinics that receive about $36,000 average actually service women who can’t get to a hospital for mammograms as the Komen literature says?
Oh, yeah, I’ll bet you didn’t even read what they had to say, did you?
Life is so much easier when you can simply shut your eyes to facts you want to ignore, isn’t it?
I read Komen’s documents and found them far more credible than the poster’s unsubstantiated claims. Did you read them?