Posted on 02/07/2012 10:18:10 AM PST by NYer
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation’s senior vice president for public policy, Karen Handel, resigned from her post Tuesday morning following the breast cancer group’s decision to de-fund, then re-fund, Planned Parenthood.
Due to her outspoken pro-life views when she ran for Georgia governor in 2010, in the days and week following the decision to revoke funding from the abortion provider and the subsequent reversal of that decision, Handel became the name most closely associated with the policy changes that lead to Komen’s decision to pull funding.
Noting the important role the breast cancer organization has been playing for more than 30 years, Handel explained in her resignation letter to Komen’s founder and chief executive that she “carried out [her] responsibilities faithfully and in line with the board’s objectives,” and that the decision to pull Planned Parenthood funding was fully vetted by every appropriate level of the organization.
“I am deeply disappointed by the gross mischaracterizations of the strategy, its rationale, and my involvement in it. I openly acknowledge my role in the matter and continue to believe our decision was the best one for Komen’s future and the women we serve,” she wrote in her letter explaining that the decision to defund was not based on ideology or politics, but on the mission to better serve women.
According to Handel, the decision to “update [their] granting model” was made prior to her joining Komen.
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Agreed, Komen should be boycotted.
yea, i guess so.
it’s too bad so some catholic churches still print the race for the cure in their bulletins, some churches actively participate in the race by forming teams and soliciting their parish.
“The irony of this story is the unreported abortion/breast cancer link.”
The other irony and tragedy is the unreported mammogram/breast cancer link.
"Statement on 'Here's Hope Cancer Awareness Bible' on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 We made a mistake. As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, B&H Publishing Group released to several mass market retailers a Cancer Awareness Bible as a way to place God's Word into the hands of those suffering through breast cancer. As part of the project, B&H agreed to donate $1 from the sale of each Bible to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation for breast health education, screening and treatment programs. As this project has developed, we realized it was a mistake."
resigning solves nothing.
God bless her. hopefully, all of us, when we get a chance to step forward for our values, will follow her example.
Yep......which is precisely why I give to one charity, and one charity only:
The Salvation Army. Unbelievably good organization, ultra-low overhead. Whatever you give goes to God's work.
This is the beginning of what I predicted on another thread:
1 High level resignations of prolifers/cancer curers.
2 promotion of probortionists to high levels of komen
3 take over of komen from cancer research funding to “women’s health” funding
The irony is an organization that “serves women” also funds an organization which kills women. Female fetuses are women too! Imagine a liberal defending that.
ah the fall women for the gutless hoard that realized once your in bed with evil you have to have true courage and gonads to get out. May God continure to strengthen all who do the right and just thing under God. In this case the first decision was the right decision not only morally but logically for their organizations primary objectives and I am glad she said so.
They are Zombies. Literally.
Our country is lost. Our government and most of it’s “charities” are nothing but Godless entities devoted to humanism and keeping God, his values, and his commandments out of our lives. The inevitable result...inevitable...is more pain, suffering and death.
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