Komen Foundation Kowtowed to Pro-Abortion Lobby
Posted: Friday, February 10, 2012
by Terry Mitchell
http://commenterry.blogs.com
I was very disappointed when I heard that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation reversed course and decided to continue its funding of Planned Parenthood. This decision came just days after it had announced that it would no longer provide financial support to Planned Parenthood. The Komen foundation had come under intense pressure from many pro-abortion groups and the liberal mainstream media, shortly after making their original announcement. Their sudden reversal was obviously an effort to appease these groups and therefore end the controversy.
I for one will no longer consider Komen for any of my charitable contributions, nor will I be willing to participate in any of their fundraising events. There are plenty of other organizations that fight cancer without adding to the shameful number of fetuses that are aborted each year in this country. Would you donate your hard-earned money to an organization that fights heart disease but also funds a child sex slavery ring? I didn’t think so. Neither will I donate to a cancer-fighting association that funds an abortion provider.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)I was disappointed also and even though I am now a breast cancer survivor will not be donating to them. I could have been an abortion statistic but my mom decided to NOT abort me - obviously this issue is near and dear to my heart.Marijo, I think you speak for the majority of conservative women in this country. Thanks for reading and commenting.
I think you've way over simplified what is really going on here and your article is overly dismissive of what is a very real problem in the US. In spite of what a lot of men think, this really was not about abortion at all in the minds of the women who have gotten free/low cost, life-saving cancer screenings from Planned Parenthood via the Komen Foundation grants.
In this country, there is no national clinic system for women's health that compares with PP. I am not a supporter of theirs and I believe that abortion should be avoided if at all possible. Most women do not receive adequate information before receiving an abortion and much of the blame lies with Planned Parenthood. Having said that, it is also true, that only 3% of what PP does involves abortions. The rest of what they do is to provide healthcare for women who are low income, uninsured/uninsurable. If we want to defund Planned Parenthood, then we must come up with a viable alternative.
The Komen Foundation is a breast cancer prevention/cure foundation first and foremost; what they recognized is that there is no alternative to what Planned Parenthood does for women.
The outrage over the defunding was not primarily from abortion rights activists, if was from women who have mothers, sisters, daughters, friends, etc who received a free mammogram from a PP clinic and it saved their life.
We simply cannot afford to lose this system - yet. You're a man, you have a lot of money, you can afford to be dismissive of PP. I'm a woman, I have friends who lost their lives because they couldn't get healthcare and waited too long to get screenings. They should have gone to PP for free ones but didn't because their churches told them it was an evil place, I don't want to lose any more, I can't afford it. If you don't like it, replace it, otherwise you're just throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Many more will die of cancer needlessly.
Komen didn't kowtow to the abortion lobby, they kowtowed to the women they have claimed is their first priority to serve, as they should have.Jean, I'm sure you know what you are talking about. As a two-time cancer surviver myself, I obviously do not want anyone to die of cancer needlessly (even though I am a man and "have a lot of money"). However, it sounds like Planned Parenthood has an identity problem. Perhaps if they changed their name to something like, let's say "Women's Preventative Health Services", and spun off the Planned Parenthood name into another organization that only did abortion and birth control, the perception of them would change.I think you've hit the nail on the head, Terry, that's a great idea.
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