Posted on 01/31/2012 4:33:17 PM PST by wagglebee
NEW YORK, January 31, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The largest funder of breast cancer research in the nation has ended its controversial ties with Planned Parenthood. Susan G. Komen for the Cure has announced that it is shutting the door on funding the abortion giant after seven years of pressure from pro-life Americans.
Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun explained that “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 Fox News. Last year a U.S. House committee announced that it was investigating Planned Parenthood to determine whether the abortion organization handles criminal conduct properly, or has mishandled federal funding to pay for abortions.
Komen has removed a document on their website defending their funding of Planned Parenthood. As well, a new statement on the site dated November 11, 2011 describes their policy not to fund research involving human embryonic stem cells. The statement notes that Komen funds stem cell research only where the stem cells are “derived without creating a human embryo or destroying a human embryo.”
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards expressed shock, describing a phone call she received from Komen about their decision to AP.
“It was incredibly surprising. It wasn’t even a conversation — it was an announcement,” said Richards.
Pro-life leaders have pointed to the relationship between Komen and Planned Parenthood for years, including several U.S. bishops who have encouraged boycotts of Komen. In December, publishers behind a Bible edition intended to benefit Komen pulled the book from shelves in response to a backlash over the Planned Parenthood connection.
Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP), a project of the American Life League dedicated to shutting down Planned Parenthood, released a report on August 24 of last year detailing the $629,159 in funding various Komen affiliates contributed directly to Planned Parenthood affiliates across the US in 2009-2010, according to the 990 Forms Komen submitted to the IRS for those years.
“The continued, collective efforts of the pro-life movement have paid off,” said Bradley Mattes, Executive Director of the Life Issues Institute. “Our work to educate Komen donors to the reality that the organization has financially supported the nation’s largest chain of abortion mills has caused Komen to halt the financial hemorrhaging. Evidently, Komen had to choose between political ideology and financial viability. They made a good choice.”
Pro-life activist had long highlighted the irony that Komen was funding the United States number one abortion provider, when numerous studies have pointed to a strong link between abortion and increased risk of breast cancer.
To let Komen know your thoughts:
http://ww5.komen.org/Contact.aspx
Great News, but what about telling the truth about the Abortion and Breast Cancer link.
I stopped giving to Komen about 6 years ago when they had that conference in Egypt but did not allow Israeli mdeical scientists to attend (they rescinded, but too late). They are a leftist organization.
Here are my thoughts ~ Woo Hoo! But as Reagan said, “Trust but verify”!!
http://lesforlife.blogspot.com/2012/01/we-tend-to-focus-on-cure-rather-than.html
I’m afraid you are correct!
Peas in a pod. They’ll figure out a way to keep the gravy train rolling!!
EXCELLENT
public revulsion toward pp is growing and having an effect
WOW!
and what act of God brought this on? Or did they just get a clue?
took them forever
there are other breast cancer fighters to give to
Exactly. You know it’s getting funded another way.
The Girl Scouts' relationship with Planned non-Parenthood is just the tip of the iceberg.
They are a leftist organization.O'Sullivan's First Law: "All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing."
I actually thought of that when I posted, but could not remember his name...wasn’t he a writer for the National Review back in the ‘70s?
I actually thought of that when I posted, but could not remember his name...wasn’t he a writer for the National Review back in the ‘70s?Yes, he was a frequent contributor to NR clear through the '70's, if I remember correctly. He left to become a member of Margaret Thatcher's inner circle.
I have a theory that O'Sullivan's First Law is really just the Second Law of thermodynamics, applied to politics. That is to say, liberalism is simply the result of the breakdown of the organizing principles of civilization. This breakdown process creates its own constituencies, which lobby, agitate and do sabotage in order to further the breakdown process. The net effect is to make it ever more difficult to carry out the organization, ranking, and correction processes that are necessry to make a stable and self-propagating civiliztion.
In short, liberalism is entropy in politics.
huge win but they are doing it for the wrong reasons. I bet they find another way of funneling money to the abortion providers.
huge win but they are doing it for the wrong reasons. I bet they find another way of funneling money to the abortion providers.
Yes, they deny funding for PP due to their own loss of contributions from those who understand the conflict or irony. They are not cutting the funding because of a fundamental change in their philosophy. They are still the same organization that would support pp in a heartbeat, (no pun intended) if it didn’t hurt their bottom line.
It is the ideology, the principles, the foundation, that really matters, and until those are changed, they should still suffer financially for their support of an organization that basically has been a large part of the moral and financial destruction of what was the greatest nation on earth. Consider too that the US Supreme Court, The Congress of the US and the Executive Branch of Government, are also part of their support team.
Need to focus on helping find a GOP nominee that is pro-life.
I bet they find another way of funneling money to the abortion providers.
It's probably not impossible, but it may not be worth the trouble.
I applaud this decision and if anything, it’s long overdue. The Susan Komen Foundation has done some very good work and their association since 2005 with Planned Parenthood had stained their mission.
Good one Mr. Mattes.
Certain dig at the "viability" argument of Roe vs. Wade.
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