Komen Foundation Bow to Anti-Choice Pressure, Yanks Planned Parenthood Funds

“Additionally, their new public policy director, Karen Handel, is an avowed opponent of choice ”

Citation?

Sounds like the beginning of the end for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

I’m thinking there will lots of women boycotting the walk…and many other picketing it. Didn’t NetFlix, Bank of AMerica and a few other businesses recently discover the blowback effect of bad decision-making?

I know I’ll be looking for other recipients for my women’s health philanthropy,

@3e7e9cec4d6fb8ee9957a01568839cd7:disqus 
http://www.americablog.com/2012/01/komen-pro-life-vp-promised-to-defund.html 

Handel Campaigned for Governor in 2010 on Anti-Choice and Anti-Planned Parenthood Platform. In a statement on her campaign website, Handel wrote, “I am staunchly and unequivocally pro-life. I believe in the sanctity and inherent dignity of human life, and I will be a pro-life governor who will work tirelessly to promote a culture of life in Georgia…. I believe that each and every unborn child has inherent dignity, that every abortion is a tragedy, and that government has a role, along with the faith community, in encouraging women to choose life in even the most difficult of circumstances…. since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood.” [Karen Handel Campaign Blog, 7/15/10]

This is spreading like a house on fire. Every woman I talked to was visibly upset by the Komen’s foundation’s action. We are the 52%!! One friend did the walk 2 years ago and immediately started sending the news out. Give me a break. Keep your laws outside of my doctor’s office and create some jobs already!

Get a life. What is this a term paper?

Actually “laws” should be “stupid ideas”

Wow!  Guess my wife won’t be shilling for them anymore.  What a bunch of whackos

The Catholic Archdioceses and non-Catholic fundamentalist groups have been spreading the lie that abortion causes breast cancer.  They seem to have enough power–financial and political–to have made this series of actions happen.  

For those who are upset I would encourage you to write/call both the local Seattle office and the national office of Susan G. Komen, inform them of your views and further inform them that you will not donate any further to their organization. I would encourage you to donate to other organizations (Erica posted a link to one above) so the cause isn’t hurt. Contact information for the Seattle office can be found at http://www.komenpugetsound.org/about-us/contact-us/

Believing everything you see written here is your problem, not mine. Get a life yourself.  

Props Jefe for providing the background Erica was too lazy to bother attempting.

Also use to work with Koch Brothers.

Well, at least now the Komen Foundation does not have to pretend to care about breast cancer anymore as a cover for their real goals.

They can now transfer all their funds to a SuperPAC and continue their thinly veiled charade.

As a
member of the pro-life “kabal” Erica is referring to, allow me to
comment.  I won’t get in to too much detail here because frankly, from the
comments already posted, there is little interest in getting to the truth of
the matter.  As an aside, I don’t recall any similar outrage in your
reporting of the March for Life 2012 last week in Washington DC where over
400,000 of us turned out to support.   
You didn’t report on it at all. 
It’s not a story if you don’t report it. 
But let’s get back to your post, Erica. 
Erica, the issue with most pro-lifers with respect to the Susan G. Komen
Organization’s partnership with Planned Parenthood is the refusal to
acknowledge the following:

1.    
Planned
Parenthood’s main source of revenue, besides the Federal Government, is their
abortion business.   Many medical professionals, breast cancer researchers
and <> pro-lifers maintain there is a credible link between
abortion and breast cancer, particularly in those women who have had abortions
before a certain age.  In a (non-scientific) nutshell, one may posit a
link between breast cells increased vulnerabilities to carcinogens after a
sudden, severe drop to maturing hormones as a result of an induced
abortion.   There have been numerous
studies to support this and I invite Erica, journalistic sleuth that she is,
find them, read them and then form an opinion, not just weigh in with the tired
rhetoric from groups like NARAL and BAC.   

2.    
Planned
Parenthood provides, at little or no cost, oral contraceptives emergency contraceptives
which contain cancer causing hormones. 
Again, some would argue that there is a link between these hormones and
breast cancer, particularly in women who have used these types of
contraceptives for a number of years before carrying a child to full term.  Thus the reason for the outrage by us silly
pro-lifers that an organization all about fighting breast cancer would actually
provide dollars in the form of grants to a giant contraceptive dispensary.  Our trusted healthcare providers, with the
help of Big Pharmacuticals, have done a great job at understating this risk to
women and we have let it happen.  Who
really reads the literature that comes with our pills anyway?   Do our eyes just willingly skip over the
part where the word “cancer” is listed as a known risk from use of these
drugs?  I find it really amazing that
when it comes to our bodies, we scrutinize ever label in the grocery
store:  Is it organic?  Fat free?  Hormone free? 
But when it comes to subjecting our reproductive system to a daily
onslaught of increased levels of artificial hormones, we don’t even think
twice!

3.    
Planned
Parenthood does not provide screenings with the grants they receive.  What do they mean by screenings?  Their own literature states they will assist
with self-breast exams but they do not provide any further screenings such as
mammograms.  At best, they merely provide
REFERRALS for screenings, which by the way, you can also get at your local
public health department in addition to a mammogram.

The real
irony not being reported here and elsewhere is this simple truth and that is: the
partnership between an organization that is committed to life (Komen) and one
that is committed to ending life (Planned Parenthood) will, eventually, succumb
to it’s own dialectical weight, but not before deceiving millions of women who
truly hope for a cure. 

There is your story, Erica.

Bravo to the Komen Foundation! 

Thank you Madeleine for speaking the truth.
(But they don’t like truth very much around here.)

Truth my ass – the “abortion causes cancer” claim is a long-discredited lie.