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My Mother Died From Breast Cancer, But I Won’t Support Komen
Life News ^ | 10/25/11 | Suzanne Ward

Posted on 10/25/2011 4:15:56 PM PDT by wagglebee

In May 1990,  my mother lost her 7 year battle with breast cancer at the age of 57.  It was an unspeakable loss for me.

My father and I cared for her together at home until the end.  For many years following, I generously supported Susan G. Komen and Race for the Cure.  Each year, my family would walk in memory of my mother and to honor others who still struggled.

A few years later, my eyes were opened to the irony of the Komen/Planned Parenthood Connection and I withdrew my support.

First, I understood that Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the world.  Second, I realized that abortion had been linked to breast cancer for years and the research continued to become more clear. And third, I learned that Susan G. Komen contributed over $3 million dollars to Planned Parenthood between 2003 and 2008.

Even today, I remain dumbstruck at the continued relationship between Susan G. Komen and Planned Parenthood. For 25 years now, October has been a time to help raise awareness of the impact of breast cancer.  This October, let’s help spread the word about a leading cause of breast cancer – abortion.

Komen and Planned Parenthood continue to deny the abortion-breast cancer link, despite numerous studies that clearly show the following:

According to the most recent data available from the Guttmacher Institute (the research arm of Planned Parenthood), Planned Parenthood did over 25 percent of all abortions in the United States in 2008, a total of 324,008 abortions. In that same year, they performed zero mammograms. In spite of these facts and the urging of Eve Silver, a member of Komen’s Latino Advisory Committee, Komen continues to fund Planned Parenthood.  In 2010 alone, Komen donated $569,000.

For more information:

Susan G. Komen and Planned Parenthood       Komen’s Dark Side 

To support prolife research and education:

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer       Breast Cancer Prevention Institute

LifeNews.com Note:  Suzanne Ward serves as the Education/Public Relations Director for Georgia Right to Life.  As a medical ultra-sonographer for over 30 years, she has witnessed the widespread devastation that both abortion and breast cancer cause.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; breastcancer; komen; komenforthekill; moralabsolutes; prolife
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To: wagglebee

if it’s any comfort to fembots who push this crap

men get prostate cancer at a much higher rate and die too

that should make some of them content

..not as good as castrating us might sound to them but it helps I’m sure


21 posted on 10/25/2011 4:44:16 PM PDT by wardaddy (This GOP field sux)
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To: moovova

our local grocery store always asks me if I want to donate to sg komen, and I always say only when they stop supporting abortion will i donate- I always get a look and have to explain myself


22 posted on 10/25/2011 4:45:02 PM PDT by mriguy67
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To: wagglebee

Komen is supported by the American Lung Association and the American Cancer Society so therefore has NEVER received any support from me.

I support nothing that uses false information to push an agenda, most especially fake science.


23 posted on 10/25/2011 4:45:43 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: wagglebee
First, I understood that Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the world.

IMHO, the Communist Chinese gov't is the largest abortion provider in the world (but I'm not meaning to downplay the scoundrels at Planned Parenthood - don't get me wrong).

24 posted on 10/25/2011 4:46:26 PM PDT by bkopto (Obama is merely a symptom of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
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To: bkopto

This probably means in the “free world.”

In China it isn’t even a choice if bringing the pregnancy to term would enlarge the family past state restrictions.


25 posted on 10/25/2011 4:48:14 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: Neidermeyer; wagglebee

Some breast cancers are attributable to a genetic predisposition. I don’t remember what the gene is, but it’s the cause of most aggressive breast cancers early in life. In general, breast cancer incidence is closely correlated with a woman’s history of childbearing and breastfeeding, including abortion and miscarriage. (Some studies have indicated that induced abortion is uniquely harmful, because many miscarriages are the result of inadequate hormone production or have that as an outcome.)

Even if there were no connection between abortion and breast cancer, there is also no connection between Planned Parenthood and breast cancer prevention, research, or treatment. Surely the financial support of this organization by the Komen Foundation is deliberate and ideological.


26 posted on 10/25/2011 4:49:09 PM PDT by Tax-chick (You can tell them I just sailed away.)
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To: Gabz

What has the Lung Association done to gain your ire? Preach that smoking kills?


27 posted on 10/25/2011 4:49:21 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: wagglebee

Same here but my mom didn’t make it a year.


28 posted on 10/25/2011 4:50:03 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: surroundedbyblue
The public really needs to turn their collective back on SGK. SGK is a sleazy, evil, dishonest “charity” that should go by the wayside.

So are the American Lung Association and American Cancer Society. Both support SGK and both are sleazy, evil, and dishonest. Also neither should be considered a "charity."

29 posted on 10/25/2011 4:51:22 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: sodpoodle
Hate the pink ribbons too. Most breast cancer survivors I know do not let it define them. They feel blessed and move on.

Yep...that would be me too...you go thru it to get on the other side...and 'life' then moves forward....and it is grand to be alive!

30 posted on 10/25/2011 4:52:57 PM PDT by caww
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To: MrsPatriot
I have to look hard to find golf balls without the pink ribbon.

I've got plenty without them, however they mostly have tobacco logos on them.

31 posted on 10/25/2011 4:57:04 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: wagglebee

bttt


32 posted on 10/25/2011 4:57:46 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: HiTech RedNeck

A friend who’s a breast cancer survivor participates in the Avon Walk. Below is a link to their grants. I perused several pages, and it SEEMS to be geared to providing funds to cancer centers and local community programs that provide breast cancer patient support/diagnostics services for the poor, etc. I didn’t see any Avon Walk money going to Komen or PP.

http://www.avonfoundation.org/financials.html


33 posted on 10/25/2011 5:02:21 PM PDT by EDINVA (We Can't Wait, either)
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To: wagglebee

My mother, who had five children, died of breast cancer in 1969 when I was almost 23. Cancer runs in my family, but I would never support SGK in any way. I know a useful idiot when I seen one.


34 posted on 10/25/2011 5:06:43 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: Gabz

That certainly sounds dubious of a “Lung” association. If fighting cancer has logically little to do with promoting abortion, then fighting the spectrum of lung diseases (cancer and otherwise) has even less logically to do with it.

What a shame, since both these charities have such a high profile and they are what the average person would think of when suddenly faced with the issue.

(Still, smoking can easily be carried to the point that it kills. Duck’n & runn’n.)


35 posted on 10/25/2011 5:12:29 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: HiTech RedNeck

As far as I know, most if not all of these orgs (American Cancer, American Lung, Alzheimer’s Association, etc) support the destruction of embryos for “research and development”. Same as abortion, in my opinion.


36 posted on 10/25/2011 5:15:46 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Live the message of Fatima - pray & do penance!)
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To: wagglebee

You are correct!


37 posted on 10/25/2011 5:19:47 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: surroundedbyblue

I can see how, for the unsophisticated, it would seem “any port in a storm.” But almost all the human successes have come with non embryonic stem cells, and for the development of others there are always animal subjects, about which humane slaughter is never objected to. Why don’t we always hear about this wonderful embryonic stem cell technique which is saving the life of cats or dogs, say? Why do the first guinea pigs for that always seem to be humans?


38 posted on 10/25/2011 5:23:13 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: wagglebee

this organization is a marketing machine.

They CLAIM “for the cure” so NOBODY else is allowed, theoretically, to have a 5k for the cure or “marathon for the cure” or “picnic for the cure”.

I remember statements where komen has some astronomical administrative expense. essentially most of their money goes to raise more money.


39 posted on 10/25/2011 5:28:13 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: wagglebee

The breast is the only organ not fully developed at birth

Credibility would be better without glaring errors like this.

Brain isn’t fully developed either.


40 posted on 10/25/2011 5:29:38 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
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