There are far more hospitals than PP clinics. Any woman incapable of getting to a hospital is going to be equally incapable of getting to a PP clinic.
If she can get to a PP clinic, she can get to a hospital.
PP caters to women of childbearing age, women who are not advised to get mammograms. At the very least, even without the indirect funding of abortions that the money supports, Komen is wasting the money by targeting the wrong demographic and totally wasting all the money donated in good faith.
They’d be much better off donating the money to breast cancer screening clinics, local hospitals in poor neighborhoods, or mobile breast cancer screening centers.
But don’t let the facts get in the way of your agenda.
None of those options support the largest abortion provider in the country.
Do you care to prove you assumptions?
Until you do, they are simply your unsubstantiated assumptions.
Komen says that they fund ‘about’ 20 clinics nationally.
Can you provide proof that the women in those areas can get to a hospital as you claim?
Logically, if Komen wanted to fund abortion they wouldn’t provide a paltry $36k to 20 isolated clinics, they dump 10 times that money into urban clinics.
You still haven’t read their documents on this, have you?
And if you haven’t then you are arguing from a position of being uninformed. Isn’t that also called ignorant?
Isn’t that also what you would expect to encounter dealing with a lib on DU or Salon.com?
Be fair to yourself, read what Komen says about the issue.
How far does $36,000 go in funding a medical clinic?
Metmom, philosophically and spiritually I think we are aligned (I am an evangelical Christian who is pro-life, pro-marriage, and base my values on Christ’s teaching... I believe you do the same). The only point you made in your post that I really think you should give some more thought to is about the hospitals being used for their reproductive services.
The LAST thing I want is a bunch of people to start using the hospitals for their routine services. I think there should be more options besides Planned Parenthood but I don’t know what all those options or answers might be, other than clinics to be developed that might serve women’s reproductive needs without doing abortions. Of course, even that starts getting dicey because technically, Roman Catholic teaching says no artificial birth control and even many evangelicals believe it is wrong.
I just think we need to stay vocal about what Planned Parenthood does and pray, pray, pray.