Posted on 07/16/2015 3:04:37 PM PDT by NYer
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 16, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Pro-life Republicans in the House of Representatives amended a commemorative coin bill to cut Susan G. Komen for the Cure off from a potential $4.75 million in revenues. This because the breast cancer research charity funds Planned Parenthood (PP), America's largest abortion provider.
The Breast Cancer Awareness Commemorative Coin Act was passed by the House 429 to 1 Wednesday afternoon after all references to Susan G. Komen for the Cure were removed. It now calls for the minting of gold and silver commemorative coins bearing a design about breast cancer research, with the profits going solely to the New York-based Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
A Republican aide told Roll Call the GOP was "working to ensure that charitable organizations which receive funding from this legislation are 100 percent focused on diagnosing, treating, and curing breast cancer." Komen spends 20 percent of its budget on research.
Behind the GOP were two powerful social conservative organizations: the Heritage Foundation and the Family Research Council. FRC's chief, Tony Perkins, applauded the amendment, linking it to Susan G. Komen's controversial funding of PP. "It is past time for the federal government to stop funding Planned Parenthood, an organization that has provided cover for sex traffickers, engaged in gender targeting, and is known for dirty, bloody clinics."
"This bill's goals are well-intended," Perkins added. "But the results will only fund the nation's largest provider of abortions. There are better ways to fund cancer research that don't involve Planned Parenthood."
In fact, the federal government does not fund PP directly, but PP applied for and received federal grants worth upwards of $500 million in 2013. Efforts by pro-life Republicans to pass laws specifically prohibiting the funding of PP in this way have been passed by the House, a GOP aide told LifeSiteNews, but they cannot survive in the Senate, where a bill may need only 51 votes to pass but effectively requires 60 votes in the 100-seat chamber to proceed.
Komen's removal from the bill may appear like a kind of comeuppance. In 2012, the foundation decided to stop funding PP but was subjected to such a hailstorm of criticism from rock bands, Democratic senators, movie stars, and board members that it relented and restored PP's money. The following year, donations fell off by 22%, though it was not made clear at the time whether this reflected disenchantment of Planned Parenthood supporters or of pro-lifers, or both.
The stripping of Komen from the coin bill, however, clearly reflects the House of Representatives' pro-life tack. The foundation did not respond to requests for comment, nor has it made a statement on the loss of funding.
Ping!
Good. Now do something that actually matters.
Whew! For a second I thought I was the only one thinking that. Don't you just love symbolic BS? You know, like getting rid of that evil confederate flag!
Good. I have been telling people about that tie for YEARS. I have never given them one dime.
March of Dimes, either!
...”Behind the GOP were two powerful social conservative organizations: the Heritage Foundation and the Family Research Council. FRC’s chief, Tony Perkins, applauded the amendment, linking it to Susan G. Komen’s controversial funding of PP.
“It is past time for the federal government to stop funding Planned Parenthood, an organization that has provided cover for sex traffickers, engaged in gender targeting, and is known for dirty, bloody clinics.”....
Well that’s a start...Komen’s been a terrible place to even go for help with cancer.....I had a friend who sought them out and got nothing but a run around. They’re all about spreading the wealth around to all the wrong places.
Good point, Norm. It’s just a commemeraitve coin. I wasn’t jonesing for one.
But I would just like to say that it would be so awesome if the Komen foundation would pull their head out of their political bupkis and drop PP. They could be so much better than this.
Don’t worry, the aborter in chief will veto it.
Impossible. They lack conviction erected upon a moral foundation. The murders will continue.
Must be someone/group worthy out there to replace them because these people proved they cannot be trusted. Personally I hope they crash and burn.
And I say that having a wife that died of cancer. So I’m not just blowing smoke.
No doubt. Romney voters proved they would compartmentalize abortion to win so there is no need for the GOP to shut down the killing. They will get votes no matter what.
It’s a lesser evil you know...
Why were they getting the money to begin with?
From life news dec2013:
Very difficult to find. Used to be easy to research cdc now all is under cover it seems
In this meta-analysis (a study of studies, in which results from many studies are pooled), Dr. Yubei Huang et al. reported that, combining all 36 studies on the ABC link in China that have been published through 2012, the overall risk of developing breast cancer among women who had at least one induced abortion was significantly increased by 44%.
These results, said the authors, “were consistent with a previously published systematic review”. That review was the one I published in the British Medical Association’s epidemiology journal with colleagues from Penn State Medical Center in 1996, which study reported an overall significant 30% increased risk of breast cancer in worldwide studies.
Since the our study came out in 1996, the “mainstream” abortion advocates entrenched in universities, medical societies, breast cancer charities, journals, and especially, government agencies like the National Cancer Institute (In reality, the NCI is just another corrupt federal agency like the IRS and the NSA) have relentlessly targeted the ABC link with fraudulent studies and other attacks, culminating in a 2003 international phony “workshop” by the NCI, which officially declared the ABC link non-existent.
Here’s a gem. Bet linen never talked about this
I stopped giving to them ten years ago whe I knew they weren’t telling the facts:
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - How often do doctors in America prescribe a Group One carcinogen - one recognized as a “definite” cause of cancer - to otherwise healthy patients?
Answer: as often as they prescribe the hormonal birth control pill.
This little-known fact about the pill was presented by Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, a breast surgical oncologist and co-founder of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, who shared her expertise on the drug at the “50 Years of the Pill” conference in Washington, DC on Friday.
“When is it ever right to give a group one carcinogen to a healthy woman?” she asked the audience. “We don’t have to take a group one carcinogen to be liberated.”
Lanfranchi offered a wealth of statistical data from various sources to support a fact that is known by the medical community to be true yet is rarely acknowledged: use of the pill has been strongly linked to an increased risk of breast cancer. The pill is also believed to increase the risk of cervical cancer and liver cancer.
“This stuff is not new, it’s not magic, it’s in the literature,” she said, linking pill use to the 660 percent rise in non-invasive breast cancer since 1973.
I stopped giving to Komen and participating in their run when they reversed themselves and announced they would stay an affiliate of PP. They lost a lot of support, because many of the Race for the Cure teams here had been put together by Catholic parishes (I was on one of those through Catholic friends, although I’m not Catholic) and that pretty much stopped.
BTTT — glad this is finally happening.
YEAH!!!!!!!! Hallelujah!!!!!!!
‘Revenue’? Did they EARN that $$ themselves?
Can someone tell me WHY, we can delve into exactly HOW/where anyone in D.C. thinks it’s Constitutional, Congress would appropriate $$ to an entity that has enough of their own $$ to FUND another en devour?
The foot stamping has ended. PP can go back to slaughtering children with federal funds.
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