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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.
kickbacks and consulting fees make any salary giveback a joke.
And that would be a temptation greater than many mortals could withstand. Still, is that actually the bulk of her wealth?
Yes, and neither is skin, IIRC.
... still it is AN organ which is not completely developed at birth, and which has thus and such characteristics as described. It’s a relatively trivial fix. It ought to be made, but still it’s trivial.
As if there would be a single, “the” cure. From all that doctors know about cancer, it is a many-uglied thing representing a cornucopia of cellular dysfunction.
You can have marches for “a cure” or for “cures.”
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80% of the monies collected by Komen foundations stay local with 20% going to Komen for administrative cost. Local/state foundations determine who they give their 80% to in the form of grants. None of the 20% goes for grants.
In Mississippi not one penny goes to Planned parenthood but is used to support Operation Bloom, which provides screening and mammograms to areas w/o access or people who cannot afford it.
Not to say that there are not other or better organizations who raise funds for breast cancer but before giving to Komen, you may want to check with your local/state Komen Foundation.
I had breast cancer and spent a full year undergoing treatment at our excellent cancer center. I saw no help from Susan B Komen anywhere in the center. The American Cancer Society was everywhere.
Their volunteers were always in the waiting room waiting for people they drove back and forth to appointments. They have a store that gives away wigs. They run a group to help people connect with others who have cancer.
I will continue to donate to them.
No doubt the cancer society has their “volunteers” and their “donations” of wigs etc. to assist. Usually these are run by “volunteers” within the salon industry. The same goes for the “drivers”.
The groups one visits are generally people crying on each others shoulders...did nothing for me, I wanted answers and coping techniques to see me thru the treatments in the best way possible. That was NOT at at these meetings...after the second one I did not return...they were terribly depressing hearing people’s problems and only brought me down.
So where’s all the money going?
I can easily believe this with what I saw and experienced. The numbers are twisted of what they do for the cancer patient...they flaunt the few stories they present...but the numbers of actual patients helped by them are few.
In Mississippi not one penny goes to Planned parenthood but is used to support Operation Bloom, which provides screening and mammograms to areas w/o access or people who cannot afford it.
Not to say that there are not other or better organizations who raise funds for breast cancer but before giving to Komen, you may want to check with your local/state Komen Foundation.
That's all well and good, but the FACT still remains that the Komen organization in Mississippi is still a part of a national organization which provides financial support for Planned Parenthood.
We’re handling the Komen outrage just as we should...refusing to contribute to/buy from/support their cause...and telling people why we aren’t.
I never attended a meeting, didn’t feel I needed it or they would help me. I am sure there are plenty of people who actually need that type of support though.
I worked my regular job throughout my treatment and only a few within the company knew I was in treatment. This was critical to maintaining my “normal” life and meeting each say head on as “usual”.
Was it difficult at times..certainly..but I choose not to wrap my life in the cloak of being a cancer patient, rather getting thru what was necessary to the other side, just as one would do with any other illness.
What I saw at these meetings were woman who identified themselves by this disease....and even to day refer to themselves as “Cancer Survivors”. Which IMO is promoted by the Cancer Institutes to sustain their involvement with those fund-raising events. Would the “fund-raising” be as successful without these woman? No it likely would not be.
The way I looked at the whole ordeal was...if I wasn't going to die in the next few months or years then I had a ‘temporary’ inconvenience....and that of going thru the treatments til out on the other side. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do when meeting any bump in the road of "life".
Are there any studies correlating miscarriage ( spontaneous abortion) with BC?
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