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Amid abortion debate, Komen cancer charity halting grants to Planned Parenthood
The Washington Post ^ | 1/31/12 | AP Editors

Posted on 01/31/2012 2:23:00 PM PST by Yossarian

NEW YORK — The nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates — creating a bitter rift, linked to the abortion debate, between two iconic organizations that have assisted millions of women.

Planned Parenthood says the move results from Komen bowing to pressure from anti-abortion activists. Komen says the key reason is that Planned Parenthood is under investigation in Congress — a probe launched by a conservative Republican who was urged to act by anti-abortion groups.

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“We’re kind of reeling,” said Patrick Hurd, who is CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia — recipient of a 2010 grant from Komen — and whose wife, Betsi, is a veteran of several Komen fundraising races and is currently battling breast cancer.

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Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun said the cutoff results from the charity’s newly adopted criteria barring grants to organizations that are under investigation by local, state or federal authorities. According to Komen, this applies to Planned Parenthood because it’s the focus of an inquiry launched by Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., seeking to determine whether public money was improperly spent on abortions.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; breastcancer; fundingtheleft; komen; komenscam; pinkpredators; pinkscam; plannedparenthood; prolife; radicalfeminists; usingfear
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Yes, the article has tons of bias wording and BS in it, but this is great news!
1 posted on 01/31/2012 2:23:11 PM PST by Yossarian
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To: NYer; wagglebee; CounterCounterCulture; Salvation

Pro-life victory (a battle, in a larger war) PING!


2 posted on 01/31/2012 2:24:10 PM PST by Yossarian ("All the charm of Nixon. All the competency of Carter." - SF Chronicle comment post on Obama)
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To: Yossarian

Very good news indeed!


3 posted on 01/31/2012 2:25:15 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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. . . organizations that have assisted millions of women

Unreal.

4 posted on 01/31/2012 2:25:58 PM PST by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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Hi AM-

I just realized when I posted this article, that I left the “AP Exclusive:” off the start of the article title.

The full article title is: “AP Exclusive: Amid abortion debate, Komen cancer charity halting grants to Planned Parenthood”

If that needs changing, please change it, and my apologies....


5 posted on 01/31/2012 2:26:46 PM PST by Yossarian ("All the charm of Nixon. All the competency of Carter." - SF Chronicle comment post on Obama)
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To: Servant of the Cross

I thought the Komen people have claimed for years they HAD no association with Planned Parenthood.


6 posted on 01/31/2012 2:27:34 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Yossarian

Yay!!!!


7 posted on 01/31/2012 2:28:42 PM PST by NoGrayZone (Jim "Firebrand" Robinson endorses Newt...with EPIC call to action!!)
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To: Yossarian

Thank You Holy Lord for prayers answered.


8 posted on 01/31/2012 2:30:03 PM PST by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice)
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To: Yossarian

YES!!!!!!!!!!!

Just looked at Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s Facebook page. The demons are out with their knives now. Very vile creatures.

https://www.facebook.com/susangkomenforthecure?sk=wall&filter=12


9 posted on 01/31/2012 2:31:03 PM PST by RabidBartender (The above statement is not meant to be offensive to women. Please don't whine and have me banned.)
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To: Yossarian

It’s a PR embarrassment for Komen and PP, but I would not be surprised to learn that funds are being smuggled to PP through a friendly intermediary. God rot them all.


10 posted on 01/31/2012 2:33:26 PM PST by Romulus (The Traditional Latin Mass is the real Youth Mass)
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To: Yossarian

This is a big victory!
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/01/31/komen-to-stop-grants-to-planned-parenthood-abortion-biz/


11 posted on 01/31/2012 2:33:42 PM PST by matthew fuller (My replacement for Drudge-http://www.webcommentary.com/links.php)
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To: RabidBartender

Listen to them squeal...


12 posted on 01/31/2012 2:35:09 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: netmilsmom

Now we will need to pray that they receive enough money to make up for the donations they will lose from the choicers.


13 posted on 01/31/2012 2:36:03 PM PST by newheart (What this country needs is a good dose of bran. Attack Muffins Unite!)
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To: Deb
Talk is WAS cheap
14 posted on 01/31/2012 2:38:40 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Yossarian

HAH!

The liberal lefties at NPR have their pink panites all in a knot.

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/31/146160911/susan-g-komen-halts-grants-to-planned-parenthood

Every year there is a benifit run for Susan G. Komen group in Austin... not only will I be boycotting it this year, I will actively protest it.

So I take it that means you are for the early death of hundreds of thousands of women because they could not get access to the free breast examines offerred by PP because of the previous grants? Wow, you really are evil.

Why does the right wing care nothing about the lives and well being of women? Do they really think that women are just empty vessels for having babies?

more....


15 posted on 01/31/2012 2:40:04 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Newt or else. What part of "Join or Die" don't you understand?)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Figures.


16 posted on 01/31/2012 2:41:56 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Those posts at NPR are unbelievable! Is Komen about fighting cancer or funding abortions?, how revealing!


17 posted on 01/31/2012 2:47:42 PM PST by jaydubya2
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To: Yossarian
“....two iconic organizations that have assisted millions of women......” (Planned Parenthood being one of them)

They KILLED 25 million of them. A real big help. 25 million female babies who will never become women. So sad, to say they are “helping” women. As if “helping” women kill their babies is virtuous.

These Lyrics from Keith Green's, A billion Starving People, tell it like it is.

I find it hard to just ignore, the murdered unborn children,
Yes times have changed, but still God warns, you shall not take a life.
I want to save a life today, I want to keep one alive for my Father,
Who will avenge the blood!
Of weak and helpless ones someday - whose lives are spilled out like water,
Lambs in the slaughter, and each one is handmade by Jesus.

18 posted on 01/31/2012 2:49:31 PM PST by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: madprof98
Apparenty the Washington Post would have us believe that Planned Parenthood only murders male children.
19 posted on 01/31/2012 2:52:04 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Yossarian
Good news, if true. I don't trust them.
20 posted on 01/31/2012 2:57:26 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Eccl 10 v. 19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.)
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