KOMEN FOUNDATION COLLAPSES: Will Fund Abortion Group Planned Parenthood

Thugs and abortionists win!
Komen will fund Planned Parenthood

After days and pressure and threats from the left the Susan G. Komen Foundation announced that they will once again fund the Planned Parenthood abortion organization. Yahoo reported:

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation apologized for cutting off funding from Planned Parenthood and vowed to revise its policy that led to that decision amid intense backlash against the nation’s largest breast cancer organization. “We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives,” president and founder Nancy Brinker said in a statement today.

“We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not.”

“Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation,” she added.

“We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. That is what is right and fair.” Planned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards, praised the move.

“In recent weeks, the treasured relationship between the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation and Planned Parenthood has been challenged, and we are now heartened that we can continue to work in partnership toward our shared commitment to breast health for the most underserved women,” Richards said in a statement.

“We are enormously grateful that the Komen Foundation has clarified its grantmaking criteria, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with Komen partners, leaders and volunteers.”

It’s time for another women’s group that values women’s health and life to rise up and compete against Komen.

Enough is enough.

UPDATE: One Komen board member claims the foundation did not cave.

#1 February 3, 2012 at 11:51 am
#1AMERICAN commented:

I can only believe that odumb$hit and his crooked marxist admin had their hand in this somehow…WTF…do not cave to them
#2 February 3, 2012 at 11:54 am
jerkface mcgee commented:

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha you guys suck
#3 February 3, 2012 at 11:54 am
Jim commented:

NO MORE DONATIONS FROM ME OR MY COMPANY!!! I made a decision quite awhile back to not patronize any business/charity/persons that cow down to liberals or PC!
#4 February 3, 2012 at 11:58 am
Highlander commented:

OK so they caved. Now we respond by cutting off our donations. The door swings both ways …
#5 February 3, 2012 at 11:59 am
lizzy84 commented:

I was thinking about making donation to Komen, but decided to wait to see if they had the guts to hold.

They didn’t.

Glad I waited.
#6 February 3, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Patty commented:

We need to win the war against cancer. Researchers are working diligently, each an every day.

I have insurance but if I needed help, I would go to some other place then the fickle Komen Foundation. And Planned Abortion Parenthood and what they do is against my beliefs.

This stupid, and it is so stupid public statements on the behave of Komen has made me assured that Foundations that promise things, BEWARE, research hard and then decide if they are the right fit for you and your personal needs.

I have wonder why, Boxer, Pelosi, Obama and God only knows who got to Komen. We leave in a world where I thought things were predictable and there was great and intelligence in organizations. Never thought that these places could give in to the left until the past recent 3 years. Seriously, I never thought that our America was so swayed and could turn so rebellious against our Creator. They have slapped the face of those with morals.
#8 February 3, 2012 at 12:06 pm
blangstaff commented:

Such an irony! More and more scientific studies are showing the link between abortions and later presentation of breast cancer, and yet, Komen continues to fund the very thing that brings women to their facilities for diagnoses of cancer!

None of their facilities for me, my family or friends, we are done with their torturous logic; they can still fund PP because the investigation into their activities is “political.” BS!
#9 February 3, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Patty commented:

Indecisiveness is more damaging. This story from two days ago until now, proves that WE are ALL IN DEEP TROUBLE.

And the donations to Komen where going down. Their publicity on the left caused the cave.

America, if you want this sort of propaganda to continue then re-elect the immoral and radicals again. America is becoming something very dangerous.
#10 February 3, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Patty commented:

Pelosi: Women stood up and they made a difference. Disgusting.

I am ashamed that she could generalized women. She is no Catholic and I am glad the Pope kick her out of Vatican on her ear.

My hero.
#11 February 3, 2012 at 12:11 pm
J. Knight commented:

Susan B. Komen will get no more of my money or my support. I’ll have to do some research to see what I want to do now. But nothing from me….let the liberals support it if they will. Hahaha….only with tax money while they use theirs for pleasure. There will be a reckoning sooner than they think. What can’t go on forever($1 trillion dollar deficits) won’t.
#12 February 3, 2012 at 12:16 pm
wanumba commented:

Stuuuuupid. They KNOW PP is a middle man which is taking an administrative cut to process out to actual mammagram service providers.

STuuuuupid to give even a PENNY to them. What ELSE are they wasting donations on? Apart from that hideous pink?
#13 February 3, 2012 at 12:17 pm
S. Wolf commented:

Komen is obviously not in the business of curing breast cancer.

‘Most women in the United States are unaware that having an abortion increases the risk of developing breast cancer. The fact that abortion causes breast cancer has been nearly completely suppressed by the media because it is a politically incorrect issue. More than 30 studies have confirmed a relationship between having an abortion and the subsequent development of breast cancer. Since 1960 there has been a surge in the number of women developing breast cancer in the USA. Currently every woman in this nation has between a 10 and 12% chance of developing breast cancer.

Dr. Joel Brind, Professor of Biology and Endocrinology at Baruch College of the City College of New York has been crusading to get the information that abortion is a major factor in the causation of breast cancer to the public. Not one magazine or newspaper was willing to print his findings. His research was finally reported in Lancet, a fine English medical journal.

When you enter a Planned Parenthood Clinic to have an abortion do they tell you that this procedure increases your chance of breast cancer by 50%? If a woman has an abortion at anytime, her chance of developing breast cancer goes up by at least 50%.

In November 1994, a National Cancer Institute (NCI) study done at Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, Wash. showed a clear link between having an abortion and the subsequent development of breast cancer. This NCI research disclosed that if the abortion was performed before age 18, the risk was increased by 150 %. If the woman was over 30 and had a family history of mother, sister, grandmother, or aunt with breast cancer the risk went up by 270%. The most ominous finding was that every woman who had an abortion before age 18 and had a family history of breast cancer developed breast cancer by the age of 45. There were only 12 women in this study who fit this category, but they all developed breast cancer. (Source: November 1994 National Cancer Institute report of a study performed at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington).’…

ABORTION CAUSES BREAST CANCER
#14 February 3, 2012 at 12:20 pm
P. Aaron commented:

Sad. Going against the Church For Abortion ain’t easy but I was ready to get out my checkbook for them.

Fortunately, I abstained.
#15 February 3, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Sasja commented:

I wonder what the good folks, who helped Komen’s donations increase 100% since their initial announcement, are thinking now?
#16 February 3, 2012 at 12:25 pm
listingstarboard commented:

Pretty ingenius way to get a money bomb from pro-lifers! Komen is all about MONEY MONEY MONEY and keeping their STAFF in plush jobs with six figure incomes. I would love to know what advances in womens cancer treatment have been accomplished 2 billion dollars and 30 years later. Or is it more profitable to continue the booming business of everything”pink”? Think how much money is made in the merchandising of all of the “pink”! I refuse to contribute to ANY charity other than Salvation Army, the only charity I know that donates 90% to the actual persons in need.
#17 February 3, 2012 at 12:25 pm
dunce commented:

There are pregnancy counseling centers that do not provide abortions and do not get any money from the govt. and are thus in great need of financial support. the foundation could have redirected their grant to these people that are dedicated to finding adoptive parents or helping the mothers through their pregnancy. breast exams is not what planned murder supplies. It is utter nonsense thatif women can not go to them then they can not get a breast exam . I would bet that PP has never referred a breast cancer case for treatment.
#18 February 3, 2012 at 12:27 pm
PB-in-AL commented:

I think it ironic that the left says that an organization like Koman can give money to whomever they wish, until, of course, the “whomever” they cease funding is a lefty pet project. Then it becomes McCarthyism and misogyny… “think about the poor women who won’t be able to …..”

Koman gave two completely valid and understandable reasons why they were ceasing the grants to planned parenthood: 1) the investigation issue, as specified above; 2) they want to more directly fund the preventative measures. In other words, PP was given money as “pass-through” grants. PP would refer women to clinics or doctors where they could get mammograms; the Koman money was funneled through PP ostensibly to these actual service providers.

So basically, Koman was trying to make the money actually count more at the point of the service provided, i.e. paying for a mammogram, rather than allowing it to “pass through” PP for a little skimming off the top, that seems to inevitably happen in these instances (I would suppose). I’d love to see an accounting, a REAL accounting, of how much grant money PP got for mammograms and how much was used for “administrative purposes” as opposed to paying for the actual test. I’d bet dollars to donuts that there would be a significant “administrative” slice of that pie chart.

Disclaimer: the views represented above are my supposition, these are not the aspersions you’re casting for….
#19 February 3, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Atlanta Media Guy commented:

Disgusting! I bet Obama threatened them with the IRS or their charity status. Seems hypocritical of their slogan.
First word, LIFE… Nope not at Komen,
Love, Komen certainly does not Love the the unborn.
Hope.. well the unborn are hopeless, thaks to Komen.

Please donate money to save women’s lives and we’ll use some of your funds to fund DEATH! Nice marketing campaign Komen. We really liked your cause until today..
#21 February 3, 2012 at 12:37 pm
maryd commented:

Unbelievable. Well, at least now everyone knows that SGK and PP are in bed together. I’m sure lots of people who supported SGK did not know this before. We can hope, but more importantly pray that many will boycot the Foundation..
#22 February 3, 2012 at 12:37 pm
Pablito commented:

So I can assume that then that the feds can pass legislation that requires mosques to provide ham sandwiches to their employees? If Catholics and Christians can be forced to provide for services that violate the beliefs why are muslims exempt?
#23 February 3, 2012 at 12:39 pm
ss252 commented:

Since they have decided to take their focus off of Breast Cancer? I will change my charity of Choice that isnt politicized!

Unbelievable, What a Moron for a CEO?
#24 February 3, 2012 at 12:42 pm
Mad Hatter commented:

Do you know why radicals get away with what they do?

Because people don’t have a backbone to stand up to them.
#25 February 3, 2012 at 12:49 pm
MaryW commented:

Wait! Hold it. Let’s not be too hasty. According to CatholicVote.com (sorry this Senior is PC challenged. I’m using my granddaughter’s lap top and don’t know how to link to the site) Komen Foundation has NOT caved . Please go over and read the post.
#26 February 3, 2012 at 12:51 pm
red923 commented:

Yep. Really regret that $25 I donated to them yesterday. Won’t make that mistake again.
#27 February 3, 2012 at 12:52 pm
Missy8s commented:

They’re cowards who bow to the likes of George Soros, President Downgrade and Move on, no moral center or conviction of purpose.

PP is nothing more than a government sanctioned genocide mill that targets groups and races of people they alone deem to be “undesirable” “unfit” or “defective” (Google Margaret Sanger quotes).

Calling murder “health care” is a morally bankrupt and abhorrent “politically motivated” position.

Any bets that President Downgrade used the IRS or SEC legal threats to force a reversal of their previously moral stand?

If you have given any donations to Komen over the last few days based on their “previously” moral position, STOP PAYMENT and reverse YOUR decision as well.

Don’t reward cowardice.

Even if it costs you money to stop payment, take it back and send them an email to follow up explaining your decision, be civil but firm!
#28 February 3, 2012 at 12:52 pm
MaryW commented:

Whoops! That should read CatholicVote.org
#29 February 3, 2012 at 12:57 pm
maraz commented:

@ red923 #26 February 3, 2012 at 12:51 pm

“Yep. Really regret that $25 I donated to them yesterday. Won’t make that mistake again.”

Call them back up and tell them that in light of their decision to fund PP… you want a refund on the donation. If everyone does that… it will send a powerful message. If they refuse and you put it on a credit card… file a dispute for the charge with your credit card company. If it is a check… you can put a stop payment on the check.
#30 February 3, 2012 at 1:02 pm
Nosmo commented:

What a dichotomy…Komen is in the business of saving a life while Planned Parenthood is in the business of killing a life.
#31 February 3, 2012 at 1:03 pm
22-250 commented:

It sounds to me like Komen is waiting to see what happens with donations before they say for sure what they are going to do. I guess if $$$ drops off, they may have another change of mind. I wonder about that 100% increase of donations since they stopped supporting pp. Will they say how much it drops?
#32 February 3, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Sasja commented:

I call into question their decision to use PP as a vehicle to provide cancer screening in the first place. I admit I am not that familiar with Nancy Brinker and her stance on abortion. Seems to me a true pro-lifer would never have entered into a relationship with any abortion advocacy group.

And after all this time, why are they now just looking to directly fund clinics that provide mammograms? At least that was one reason given for dropping funding to PP.
#33 February 3, 2012 at 1:09 pm
Kelly commented:

I’m happy the Foundation has chosen to do “what is right and fair” by revising it’s policy today, but I’m unlikely to be a supporter of that charity again. This issue was the cherry-on-top after the Komen Foundation wasted hundreds of thousands of donor dollars suing other cancer charities for using “cure” and “for the cure” in their fundraising/marketing efforts. I think the Komen Foundation needs some downsizing if it’s financial base is large enough for it to be subjected to political pressures resulting in funding policies that compromise their stated mission of saving women’s lives. Additionally, in response to all the pro-life angst out there, I think being pro-life shouldn’t begin at conception and end at birth. The born need pro-life advocacy as well, and when the basic needs of all born persons are met from birth on, perhaps we’ll have a world in which women won’t see abortion as a necessary evil.
#34 February 3, 2012 at 1:10 pm
S. Wolf commented:

MaryW #25

It is an .org, the .com is the front page. Hope you aren’t confused.

Just drop the link in the posting field we lazy people do.

‘Featured Post
RSS
Updated: *145* Bishops (Almost 80% of Dioceses) Have Spoken Out Against Obama/HHS Mandate’

http://www.catholicvote.org/index.php?/site/

I can’t find the item you mention.

jerkface mcgee #2

You are aptly named. So breast cancer is amusing to you? Sick jerkoff.
#35 February 3, 2012 at 1:12 pm
Elixir commented:

You guys really need to put this in perspective:

Planned Parenthood has a $1 Billion per year budget

Out of Komen’s $177 million annual budget, they gave Planned Parenthood $600,000 last year

That’s 0.33% of Komens budget going to fund 0.06% of PP’s budget.
#36 February 3, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Mad Hatter commented:

Put in perspective how out of control and hateful the radical leftists acted when that 0.33% funding was cut.
#37 February 3, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Mad Hatter commented:

0.06% funding was cut*
#38 February 3, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Major Kong commented:

Elixer, if Koman donated one cent of my donation to PP it would still be unacceptable . Pro lifers, next time you grocery shop you might want to pay closer attention to product labels. I know in the past Progresso Soup has run campaigns for Koman, with its distinctive corporate pink ribbon. Switching brands from now on.
#39 February 3, 2012 at 1:26 pm
Evilpa commented:

If you donated, stop payment, dispute the transaction if it is on your credit card. They misrepresented themselves, and you should be able to get your money back. FIGHT BACK! They lied, they may not have intended too, but they DID, thus people need to get their money back. Call them, DEMAND they return your money because they LIED!
#40 February 3, 2012 at 1:27 pm
Dave commented:

Guns don’t kill people. People kill people, and Komen supports those people with money they collect through donations.

America will not survive the Baby Boom.
#41 February 3, 2012 at 1:27 pm
Elixir commented:

Mad Hatter….

So, you’re all aspiring to the same level? Gotcha.
#42 February 3, 2012 at 1:30 pm
MYak commented:

I wonder if the Komen foundation will return any of the contributions received in the past 24 hours (or so). My wife and I were talking about finally contributing, but the announcements saves us the time, trouble and money. I think it’s better sent to our local right to life society.
#43 February 3, 2012 at 1:30 pm
CSharpAJ commented:

As Mad Hatter alluded to, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did this just because they were literally afraid of the stupid leftists threatening them and hacking their website.

Yet we are somehow the intolerant ones and the extremists.
#44 February 3, 2012 at 1:31 pm
Opaobie commented:

#6 Patty

When my wife contracted breast cancer, she was still teaching school, and they had a policy through AFLAC that paid supplemental benefits directly to her to help defray costs not covered by insurance. Not trying to sell insurance, but something like that might be an option…at least until Ob-Romney-Care drives them out of business.

My wife was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer and given six months or less to live. We chose to get a second opinion — from God. We had prayer warriors all over the world praying for her, and during surgery, the cancer miraculously transformed into a treatable form. The story was so amazing that the local newspaper sent a reporter and photographer to interview her. The photo they published is pretty unflattering, but here is a link to a copy I keep posted on my website to remind me that it did happen and wasn’t just a dream with a happy ending. She has been cancer free ever since, and she has been very active with counseling breast cancer patients and with the “Race for the Cure”. Looks like she may want to rethink her participation in Komen Foundation events from now on.

My wife’s miraculous healing
#45 February 3, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Elixir commented:

Well Kong, there’s a 6/100′s percent chance theyt gave your penny to PP…if you gave them any pennies.

You can all do what you choose with your money, obviously.

I won’t be checking my Pepsi bottle to make sure none of it goes to Komen. That’s
just pedantic.
#46 February 3, 2012 at 1:37 pm
Rammer12 commented:

My bride and me have been discussing this for the past few days and want to know this:

“What is the specific byproduct produced by Susan G Komen’s foundation?”

As a potential donor I have a right to know what the return on an investment IS.

Not pie in the sky, what tangible results are delivered by Susan G Komen’s organization that can be measured.
#47 February 3, 2012 at 1:40 pm
raybojabo commented:

Glenn Beck explained it last night. These rabid child sacrifice cultists that support Planned Parenthood are Baal worshippers. In this brilliant article by Donna Anderson, she also cites medical proof that abortions increase the chances of getting breast cancer.

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Abortion%20is%20Murder/abortion_and_baal_worship.htm
#48 February 3, 2012 at 1:40 pm
Opaobie commented:

#35 Elixir, what you aren’t taking into account is the influence that the “brand” has on donations. It’s called “leverage”. Komen may only give a small amount of money, but it can influence millions of people to donate to PP by “endorsing” the PP “brand”. It’s basically a formal endorsement to entice others to donate, and it works in fund raising for businesses, charities, and politicians all the time.
#49 February 3, 2012 at 1:45 pm
Elixir commented:

Rammer…what is your idea of “Tangible”? They provide fudning for research into improving screening and treatment.

If you want to know what they do, I’d go here:

http://ww5.komen.org/

and read some of the things under the “Research and Grants” tab.
#50 February 3, 2012 at 1:45 pm
S. Wolf commented:

Nosmo #30

Yes, there is a definite dichotomy, the dichotomy between life and death.

‘MIRACLE baby Oliver Morgan was brought back from the dead — after being born with no blood in his body.

A rare condition drained his tiny frame of virtually every drop while in the womb.

When he was delivered he looked pale and stillborn — and doctors were unable to find a heartbeat for an astonishing 25 MINUTES.

Oliver almost bled to death after a rare condition called Vasa Previa formed an extra vein in his mum’s womb.

It burst — and Katy woke up covered in blood 37½ weeks into her pregnancy.’

The baby born with no blood

On the one hand conscientious doctors save the lives of babies and on the other the conscienceless butchers of PP take lives by the millions. The abortion industry is a slaughterhouse for unborn humanity literally with bloody floors and tiny body parts stuffed in casks.
#51 February 3, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Mad Hatter commented:

Planned Parenthood and their cohorts went on an Electronic Jihad against Komen. And the crime? Exercising their freedom to do what they want with their money.

The radical leftists hacked Komen’s website,

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/02/susan-b-komen-website-hacked-after-withdrawing-funds-for-planned-parenthood/

A U.S. Senator went on a smear campaign against them.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/02/good-grief-barbara-boxer-komen-decision-reminiscent-of-mccarthy-era-video/

And the Alinsky Media reported the story as if a major crime was committed.

A private organization gets harassed, and smeared because they exercised a legal decision in a free country.

The radical left always lectures about being open minded, yet they can’t lead by example.
#52 February 3, 2012 at 1:56 pm
Tjexcite commented:

Shows you who we are dealing with when it comes to November 6th. They destroy a cancer charity so bad they bow to the extortion of money from them to PP. By such veil reports, calls, smears and lies. How many death threats did Komen get. A few thousand and that was just on twitter during the 7-8 pm hour.

They will not let any Republican win with out blood being spilled. Remember that next time one has a R on R fight. Or PP will not need to lie about abortion services anymore. It will be open and no one will care as they will not be around to care.
#53 February 3, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Elixir commented:

#48 Opaobie:

I had no idea that the Komen Foundation even provided money to PP until they
decided to WITHDRAW their funding of PP, and it became big news.

At this point, whether they continue to support PP not isn’t relevant. The amount
of publicity generated by their initital move to withdraw support from PP has bolstered
support of PP from others.

For that, you can blame Komen, or whoever pressured them to withdraw support in the
first place.
#55 February 3, 2012 at 2:00 pm
susan commented:

Just stop giving money to the Komen foundation-no more walks to raise money either. The only thing that this group will understand is no money.
#56 February 3, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Patty commented:

Leaders? Jump on this story like flies to manure. Jobless rate, Obama’s extraordinary spending and green failures, Fast and Furious, Salinksy propaganda but this story gets legs, legs of liberals in heels running like Bride dress sale.

The gripe that these feminazis have on Komen. Where are those leaders who are serving my interests my opinions. If you are as disgusted as We need to vote those out who have manipulated the system and have this kind of power.

The letter is signed by Senators Lautenberg, Murray, Mikulski, Boxer, Cantwell, Gillibrand, Menendez, Wyden, Blumenthal, Shaheen, Begich, Merkley, Tester, Akaka, Sanders, (Sherrod) Brown, Leahy, Baucus, Cardin, Feinstein, Franken, and Kerry.
#57 February 3, 2012 at 2:07 pm
Patty commented:

It is obvious that Washington can get this JOB done. I refused to ever vote another on of this Godless immoral leaders into office.

This IS evidence that the democratic party is useless self serving and relentless against the Catholic Church and its teachings. And for that matter God. God has no place in the world. And they are spreading the hate throughout America.
#58 February 3, 2012 at 2:08 pm
Patty commented:

#55 February 3, 2012 at 2:00 pm
susan commented:

Just stop giving money to the Komen foundation-no more walks to raise money either. The only thing that this group will understand is no money.
________________

Heard Bloomberg gave a 1/4 of a million to Planned Abortion Parenthood
#59 February 3, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Patty commented:

less breast cancer rates with less abortions. But Planned Abortion Parenthood won’t tell their clients this.
#60 February 3, 2012 at 2:12 pm
jimg commented:

It’s dumb politics on the part of Komen.

All they’ve done now is piss off both sides. The left won’t forgive them for the initial decision, and the right thinks they’re cowards for backing down.

Dumb, dumb politics.
#61 February 3, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Major Kong commented:

#60 jimg Dumb, dumb politics.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Actually, it’s worse than that. For those of us who supported them and are pro-life it’s betrayal. Cannot understand how an organization ostensibly devoted to curing a killing disease would ever fund an organization, PP, dedicated to murdering the unborn. Once credibility is destroyed, it is nearly impossible to regain it. In the words of the song, “won’t get fooled again.”
#62 February 3, 2012 at 2:26 pm
Patty commented:

Save one life, kill a baby. Simple as that. Sick, really. As sick as Obama’s opposition to the Catholic Church.

So, Senators condone murder, we really need to clean house in Washington. And I pray some wealthy Billionaire will put them all out of business. Yes, Komen saves Women but at what price.

Sold their souls to the Devil and Pelosi is one of the most hateful of all. SHE NEEDED TO GO A LONG LONG TIME AGO.
#63 February 3, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Patty commented:

#56

Vote them all out.
#64 February 3, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Catblaster commented:

I hope those individuals who gave money recently can call those back. Let Bloomie and the eugenic proggies fund this monster. They’ve never gotten a dime from me anyway. I knit chemo caps and do what I can on my own. Komen can KMA and I emailed them as much. Stupids.
#65 February 3, 2012 at 2:44 pm
Pam commented:

Can someone please explain how an organization dedicated to saving lives has no trouble supporting and organization that kills unborn babies. It just doesn’t make any sense.
#66 February 3, 2012 at 2:46 pm
Patty commented:

#44 February 3, 2012 at 1:31 pm
Opaobie commented:
_______________

Just a beautiful outcome. Cancer runs in my family. Lost an Aunt years ago to breast cancer, mother to lymphoma cancer, another aunt to lung and brain cancer and an Uncle to colon cancer.

I like AFLAC but do to injuries on the job, I don’t believe I could qualify. God works in mysterious ways, I call on him often to thank Him for my many blessing and memories.

I am close to Him. Nice to know that others, especially like you and your family have such great moral values.

Thanks for commenting your story.
God Bless
#67 February 3, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Patty commented:

#66
Pam

I have been amazed, as well. How quickly Pelosi and the other senators jump on the worst of things. Instead of doing the work of the people and not just the few. Our nation is suffering and their response, the wrong one, imo. This quick and results.

These leaders are not leading us in the right direction. Insult others with opinion not theirs over and over again. The only option is to VOTE the lot out of office.
#68 February 3, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Patty commented:

#65
Catblaster

what a wonderful thing you are doing.

God Bless you
#69 February 3, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Elixir commented:

For the record, the strongest scientific evidence shows no connetcion between aboortions and breast cancer.
#71 February 3, 2012 at 3:06 pm
rammer12 commented:

Elixir,

Please back up your statement: “For the record, the strongest scientific evidence shows no connetcion between aboortions and breast cancer.” with specific scientific data – and – use spell check next time you pontificate…
#72 February 3, 2012 at 3:25 pm
Greg commented:

The left’s genocide against babies continues unabated.
#73 February 3, 2012 at 3:49 pm
AliceL. commented:

I am sick o the pink ribbons. Now I will not contribute to Komen DOUBLE. PP does not do mammograms. Their “breast cancer screening” is a charade to make them look respectable. They are not and never will be. They traffic in the Culture of Death which libs and the Democratic party love.
#74 February 3, 2012 at 3:58 pm
#1AMERICAN commented:

#26 February 3, 2012 at 12:51 pm
red923 commented:

if it’s on your credit card you can stop payment
#75 February 3, 2012 at 4:00 pm
wanumba commented:

#74 February 3, 2012 at 3:49 pm
AliceL. commented:
I am sick o the pink ribbons. Now I will not contribute to Komen DOUBLE. PP does not do mammograms. Their “breast cancer screening” is a charade to make them look respectable. They are not and never will be. They traffic in the Culture of Death which libs and the Democratic party love.
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Yes. I have AVOIDED the pink campaign once I noticed it. I don’t like ANY of that school/commercial promotion. And schools are Democrats LEFT big big on this.

Didn’t even know anything about KOMEN, but the commercialization was suspicious. We are in humanitarian aid and when you see this sort of slick corporate board connections, then fat salaries are involved and NGO image trump direct support to research and medicine.
WHen the local high school football team had to wear pink socks at the homecoming game, it became more than consumer avoidance but open disgust. Pink socks? Like THAT helps ANYTHING? How much money is spent now on IMAGE of KOMEN that should instead be sent to research labs?

Church organizations have lower overhead and higher direct funding. Left organizations EAT money.
#76 February 3, 2012 at 4:34 pm
Patty commented:

It wouldn’t surprise me if this was a planned thing to get more donations to both PP and K.
#77 February 3, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Senah commented:

I thought obamacare made breast exams free anyway. top funding the killing machine
#78 February 3, 2012 at 4:40 pm
Patty commented:

BREAST CANCER

The National Abortion Federation (NAF) has a page on their website titled “Abortion and Breast Cancer.” The page states that of the “several dozen studies” investigating the connection between abortion and breast cancer,” the results seem “contradictory.”4 Nevertheless, they point to a 2003 National Cancer Institute workshop5 as definitive proof that abortion is not a risk factor for breast cancer. The National Cancer Institute (NCI), the American Cancer Society (ACS), and Susan G. Komen for the Cure all join NAF in stating that “research clearly shows no link between abortion and the risk of breast cancer.”6 Like NAF, all three point to the findings of the 2003 workshop to justify their stance, though NCI notes that research “continues to be conducted to determine whether having an induced abortion… influences a woman’s chances of developing breast cancer later in life”7 (a strange concession if research has already demonstrated that no link exists).

What none of these organizations disclose is that in 2009, Dr. Louise A. Brinton, “the chief organizer of the 2003 NCI workshop”8 co-authored a research paper which included the following findings:

In analyses of all 897 breast cancer cases (subtypes combined), the multivariate-adjusted odds ratios for examined risk factors were consistent with the effects observed in previous studies on younger women (Table 1). Specifically, older age, family history of breast cancer, earlier menarche age, induced abortion, and oral contraceptive use were associated with an increased risk for breast cancer. (emphasis added)9

Doctor Brinton is listed in the NCI staff directory as a “Senior Investigator” in the “Chief Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch.”10 Interestingly, her study connecting abortion to breast cancer is not included in the selected publications they list for her. A 2010 article from Medical News Today, includes the following quote from Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer (ABC): “Although the study was published nine months ago, the NCI, the American Cancer Society, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and other cancer fundraising businesses have made no efforts to reduce breast cancer rates by issuing nationwide warnings to women.”11 They are not alone in their silence. One of the few media outlets to even report the story was Canada’s The Globe and Mail. Gloria Galloway writes:

… a study released last fall by the respected Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute in Seattle by a number of distinguished cancer experts including Louise Brinton, the chief of the Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch of the National Cancer Institute lists induced abortion as being “associated with an increased risk for breast cancer.” Background documents further suggest that it increases the risk of the disease by 40 per cent.

http://www.abort73.com/abortion/abortion_risks/ More on link
#79 February 3, 2012 at 4:52 pm
wanumba commented:

So, is it that KOMEN is nothing more than a”charity” money launderer for Planned Parenthood?

Is this correct … they’ve been taking in donations and % of sales to “cure breast cancer” but have been handing it to Planned Parenthood which doesn’t even do the services KOMEN says they need donations to fund, worse PP provides abortions and birth control chemicals which increase breast cancer rates? In a rational world wouldn’t Planned Parenthood normally be KOMEN’s worst enemy? Hmmm. hmmmm.
#80 February 3, 2012 at 5:07 pm
maak commented:

I guess “the cure” also means a cure for pregnancy.
#81 February 3, 2012 at 5:15 pm
Texas Annie commented:

When Nancy Brinker gives up the HALF MILLION dollar a year salary she makes at the Komen Foundation (a “non profit” organization), then we can talk…..
#82 February 3, 2012 at 5:21 pm
Simsalabim commented:

Maybe all these brilliant liberals have finally figured out a cure for breast cancer. Kill ‘em in the womb before they develop any cancer.
#83 February 3, 2012 at 5:35 pm
CT commented:

A victory for the baby murders and Pelosi is as proud as pie.
#84 February 3, 2012 at 5:40 pm
S. Wolf commented:

Patty #79

Yup

‘In learning this information, our greatest disappointment is that the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation website lists abortion first under “factors not related to breast cancer.” Consequently, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation gives women only part of the scientific research on breast cancer, and ignores numerous studies that have yielded evidence linking abortion to breast cancer. One such study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in 1994, was led by Dr. Janet Daling, who describes herself as “pro-choice,” and her colleagues at the Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. (see Appendix II)’… PDF

http://www.lifeissues.org/abortionbreastcancer/komen/fact_sheet.pdf
#86 February 3, 2012 at 5:50 pm
S. Wolf commented:

wanumba #80

re is it that KOMEN is nothing more than a”charity” money launderer for Planned Parenthood

That’s about it.

‘Komen’s main source of income is its “Race for the Cure” events that are held across the country. These events get ordinary citizens to raise money for the organization.

Given its long-time connection with Planned Parenthood, we ask all of you to have no involvement with the Komen Foundation and to discourage others from helping it.

Documentation on the involvement of Planned Parenthood and Komen can be found on the web site of Pro-Life Waco, an American Life League associate group dedicated to fighting Planned Parenthood, at http://www.prolifewaco.org/KomenControversy.htm.’

http://www.physiciansforlife.org/content/view/920/2/

This whole thing has been nothing more than a cynical fundraising.. Komen was flooded with money from gullible pro-lifers and PP with money from coldhearted pro-deathers. The only way to end this cynical manipulation of decent people is to end legal infanticide on demand. PP is not about planning parenthood but ending unplanned parenthood, usually of single irresponsible females, i.e. loose women of whom there are quite a few needless to say.
#87 February 3, 2012 at 6:08 pm
fightinggranny commented:

Another charity/business who will not have benefit from my money. GONE! It’s getting low now. In spite of Marlo Thomas, I still support St. Jude. Looking hard for principled business
to buy goods. You want to snub half the country, expect your money to be cut in half.
#88 February 3, 2012 at 6:15 pm
Rand in Minn commented:

Regarding your headline. If “thugs” is to describe anyone, it’s a description of those who push for de-funding of health care for women. And to describe the political party of those who favor the rights of the 1% over the care for all women, including those with limited resources.
#89 February 3, 2012 at 6:19 pm
Rand in Minn commented:

RE: S. Wolf’s accusation: “…a money launderer for Planned Parenthood.”
The grants in question are extremely small percentages of both organizations’ budgets, so your characterization is just plain wrong, incorrect, ill-informed…. etc.
#91 February 3, 2012 at 6:37 pm
TeeDub commented:

I’m sure all the outraged Planned Parenthood supporters will step in and make up the difference in what Komen will lose now that everyone knows that PP demands to get a share.
#92 February 3, 2012 at 6:46 pm
donh commented:

Breast cancer takes a courage of will power to FIGHT through a despairing situation…..By caving in to a blitzerkig of negative pressure, Komen has violated the very spirit needed to overcome adversity. They have quit on life.
#93 February 3, 2012 at 6:50 pm
Spartan in the 'burg commented:

I agree that the Komen people suffer from myopic thinking and a corporate bent. I also agree that Planned Parenthood is a viable organization that has been unfairly demonized notwithstanding its very legal status. I am proud that my conservative friends herein haven’t trotted out the idiotic warhorse about the PP founder being a kind of white supremacist and thus de-legitimizing the organization as whole. That argument is ridiculous. i think this is real cool, for it shows how wishy-washy Komen is while also getting money for PP. Thanks to the right-wing religious guys who fostered this boon!
#94 February 3, 2012 at 6:51 pm
S. Wolf commented:

re #87

Oopsie bad link therein.
#95 February 3, 2012 at 7:13 pm
S. Wolf commented:

Rand in Minn #89, 90

Oh please, no apologies for the pro-deathers. This is not about the mythical one percent vs. the equally mythical ninety-nine percent, it is about the planned extermination via abortion of the unwanted offspring of careless, irresponsible single women. It is not about women’s health care. How many married women or women who don’t hump promiscuously like cats in the alley go to PP for health care? Just about none, eh? Married women and responsible single women who are pursuing an education or career typically have their own regular physicians and do not go to PP for ‘health care’. Even poor women whether married or not have access to doctors at hospitals and neighborhood clinics and if there were no PP tomorrow no one would notice its absence. PP exists for one reason and one reason only: abortions, i.e. the legal extermination of unwanted offspring of loose single women, not health care.
#96 February 3, 2012 at 8:39 pm
Sparky commented:

I won’t donate a penny to an organization that cannot stand on principle and fight against the onslaught from the evil, radical, murderous Planned Parenthood organization!
#97 February 3, 2012 at 9:06 pm
Patty commented:

This has been a manipulation and money scheme. Both sides especially Planned Parenthood has made 3 million dollars. Now, is the time for our government to stop contributing, They have their money now, way more than ever.

I pray that the Supreme Court repeals Obama care. Planned Parenthood will not receive another tax payers dime.

This was a big scam.
#98 February 3, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Patty commented:

Clueless Komen Foundation Runs Up Against the Sacrament of Liberalism

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/02/03/clueless_komen_foundation_runs_up_against_the_sacrament_of_liberalism MORE ON SITE

RUSH: The Susan G. Komen bunch, the Race for the Cure, whatever? They have caved big time to the feminazis at Planned Parenthood. It is stunning! Yesterday everybody was holding firm, and today Nancy Brinker who runs the Susan Komen group (I think it was her sister) made a big time cave. Biiiig time. Abortion is the sacrament to the religion of liberalism. Nobody is gonna mess with that money’s flow. Nobody is gonna mess with that pile of money. Nobody’s gonna mess with that at all.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I want to talk about this Susan G. Komen flap with Planned Parenthood. This is a teachable moment. It is an interesting illustration. I’m gonna get myself in trouble with people here, but what is new about that? Kathryn Jean Lopez of the National Review Online, she’s the editor of their blog The Corner, has a post titled, “From Pink Ribbon to White Flag — The only thing that seems clear is that Komen is desperately trying to make the campaign to kill Komen to stop…” Planned Parenthood wants the Susan G. Komen people — which is charity to wipe out breast cancer, raise money for breast cancer — gone. And, by the way, nobody’s talking about the relationship to breast cancer of abortion.

It’s been medically documented. There is a relationship between abortion and breast cancer, and notice how nobody wants to talk about that. I don’t even know if that’s part of Komen’s decision-making, the original decision making to defund Planned Parenthood or to stop donating Planned Parenthood. At any rate, the Planned Parenthood feminazis heard about this, and they went ballistic and they went nuclear because nobody — particularly a female-oriented charity like Komen — is gonna stop or interrupt the money flow to the pro-abortion mill industry. There’s too much money being made with all these abortions taking place, and nobody’s gonna get in the way and interrupt that.

So they went nuclear on ‘em, and what Planned Parenthood was attempting to do was take Komen out. They were gonna kill it. So the people at Susan G. Komen said: We don’t want to be killed here (by the venom that has been aimed at them from Planned Parenthood). But here’s the truth, and Kathryn G. Lopez points this out: “Komen, of course, has never said this week: We will never do business with Planned Parenthood again (as [many people] would love them to do, but I was and am under no delusions). And in this statement [from Nancy Brinker who runs Susan G. Komen] they appear to be somewhat consistent there … maybe: They have tightened funding guidelines and this Planned Parenthood did not look eligible, but that does not mean PP necessarily will not get grants in the future.
#99 February 3, 2012 at 11:04 pm
valerie commented:

OK, I’m going to link this one, not as an assertion that it is true, but that it is the story being used to justify this move by the Susan Komen foundation.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9SMARJ00&show_article=1

At this point, I’m not at all sure that Planned Parenthood performs mammograms at most, or even many, of its clinics. The articles suggests that this could be a face-saving cover story.

All I have to say is that breast cancer is extremely rare among teenagers.
#100 February 3, 2012 at 11:07 pm
valerie commented:

#89 February 3, 2012 at 6:15 pm
Rand in Minn commented:

#90 February 3, 2012 at 6:19 pm
Rand in Minn commented:

cite?
#101 February 4, 2012 at 7:08 am
Shawn commented:

I thought this group fought breast cancer. What are they doing funding other groups? Now I wonder who is getting rich of of what folks give to fight the good fight. Not another dime from me.
#102 February 4, 2012 at 8:39 am
symptoms of hypertension commented:

Generally I don’t learn post on blogs, but I wish to say that this write-up very pressured me to check out and do it! Your writing taste has been surprised me. Thanks, quite nice post.
#103 February 16, 2012 at 4:58 pm
Randy H. commented:

My wife and I along with hundreds of other people – supported Komen for years. The organization has problems. This is not about politics. It goes much deeper. I believe most people including me did not realize Komen gave money to Planned Parenthood. Now, I don’t have a problem with that IF and I stress IF Planned Parenthood uses the money to help women with breast cancer related issues, like mammograms. I don’t want my money used to pay for abortions – PERIOD. Until Komen can assure me of that, they will not get a dime from me.