You are misreading the data -
The other 2,000 or so who would have signed up were aborted by Komen’s political allies.
Wait till they find out that half the contributors of the runners signed up have also been aborted.
I have had friends who have done the Komen 3-day in the past and when they asked me to sponsor them I have declined, explaining that I can’t support any organization that donates to Planned Parenthood. Most of them had no idea and some even questioned my info - now that this whole thing hit the media and Komen sided with PP, I expect their donations to drop dramatically.
I have lost family members to breast cancer and I have an aunt battling it right now. I am all in favor of funding research and better treatment options but Komen jumped the shark this past summer and I will only donate to organizations whose mission is to fight cancer - not those with a social agenda to push!
Pro-Life groups should rent billboards along the route, showing what donors money is really being used for.
Maybe there needs to be a “Cure for the Race.”
I’m doing Avon this year. At least you can follow the money on their website.
Of course if you abort all the children you will have a defacto cure for breast cancer .... you won’t have anyone left to get cancer!
What I don’t “get” about Komen/PP or most of these ‘charities’ is: why wouldn’t donors just give directly to PP if that’s where they want their $ to go? It almost seems a form of non-profit money laundering.
Other reasons could be the incredible pressure Komen put on racers last year, effectively demanding every ‘racer’ be ‘sponsored’ and fundraise in addition to their own contribution. This year they've also dropped the ‘family’ registration; the cost for a family of four to participate has jumped from $70 to $160.
So, all in all, yeah, I'm sure the idiotic decision to restore funding to clinics that don't actually provide any cancer screenings has cut down the number of participants, but I think the bigger reason has OBAMA written all over it, from the freewheeling debt spree that is killing the value of the dollar to the heavy regulations that are killing jobs.
Komen is a scam.
HA HA!