Planned Parenthood targeted by ProLife groups loses Komen Foundation funding

bravo said:
At least you're placing the blame for the lost funding where it belongs.......

The investigation of PP is the legitimate DUTY of Congress for oversight of spending of tax payers money

if there are no problems PP should come out better than ever.
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Problem is, it looks like SGK's call was "guilty until proven innocent." They could have waited until the investigation was complete. Think of all the donations they'd still be getting until then.
 
christiefan915 said:
Problem is, it looks like SGK's call was "guilty until proven innocent." They could have waited until the investigation was complete. Think of all the donations they'd still be getting until then.
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They crafted the "no investigations" rule specifically to target Planned Parenthood at the behest of their new VP. They wanted to cut the funding for PP and came up with a way to do it. The whole "no investigation" rule was just designed to try to give them cover. It didn't work.


http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...igned-over-planned-parenthood-cave-in/252405/
 
Darla said:
https://twitter.com/#!/karenhandel

That's the twitter feed for the Senior VP of Komen. Schilling for Sarah Palin! You betcha!

Komen has become a political organization. Frankly I never liked them. They were always a merchandising corporation as far as I was concerned. And they have been around for 30 years and raised over a billion dollars for "the cure" and where are we? You are at a higher risk of getting breast cancer and dying of it than you were 30 years ago! I think they are a bunch of bs but I always sponsored my friends who did the race for the cure. Now I can no longer bite my tongue and make out the check. I am with Planned Parenthood, an organization that was there for me when I was young and needed care. Now like so many other women who received help from Planned Parenthood when they needed it, I am there for them. Komen has corporate america. Planned Parenthood has us.
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I am greatly saddened by their decision. It is important for early detection. I know, I am a five year survivor.
 
Tell Susan Komen to restore funding!

Dear MoveOn member, Susan G. Komen for the Cure just cut all its funding to Planned Parenthood for breast health screenings, bowing to anti-choice pressure and making breast health care suddenly inaccessible to many women.

Planned Parenthood health centers are often the main source of health care for women in underserved communities, and they provide 830,000 breast exams every year. 170,000 of these were funded through Komen, along with 6,400 mammogram referrals.[SUP]3[/SUP] Without Komen's funding, many of these women could be unable to get the screenings and early detection of breast cancer that save lives.

It's incredibly disappointing for an organization founded to protect women's health to play politics with real women's lives.

Tell Susan G. Komen for the Cure, "Don't bow to anti-choice pressure. Reestablish breast health funding for Planned Parenthood affiliates."

Komen has raised tons of money and awareness about breast cancer from people who care about women's health. They need to know that they've gone too far by joining the right-wing war on Planned Parenthood—which, let's be honest, is really a war on women. That's why we're partnering with the new organization UltraViolet to get Komen to reverse this decision.

Komen says this isn't about choice, but it recently changed its funding guidelines to exclude any organization under investigation by Congress, knowing that a baseless investigation into Planned Parenthood had been opened by Republican Representative Cliff Stearns at the request of anti-choice groups.

And Komen has strong links to the anti-choice movement. Its new vice president of public policy, Karen Handel, ran for governor of Georgia in 2010 on an aggressively anti-choice platform, part of which was a pledge to defund Planned Parenthood.

Komen needs to hear that we won't stand for this kind of political posturing when real lives are at stake.

Tell them to reestablish funding for Planned Parenthood now.

Thanks for all you do.
–Elena, Steven, Adam Q., Laura, and the rest of the team
Sources:

1. "Amid abortion debate, Komen cancer charity halting grants to Planned Parenthood," The Washington Post, January 31, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=269935&id=35307-1273282-BH7jsqx&t=4
2. "Protect Women's Health, Protect Planned Parenthood," Planned Parenthood Federation of America, April 12, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=269936&id=35307-1273282-BH7jsqx&t=5
3."Komen breast cancer charity severs ties with Planned Parenthood," The Los Angeles Times, February 1, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=269955&id=35307-1273282-BH7jsqx&t=6
4. "Planned Parenthood Investigation Is An Abuse Of Government Resources, Democrats Charge," Huffington Post, November 27, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=269937&id=35307-1273282-BH7jsqx&t=7
5. "Komen Cuts Planned Parenthood Grants Months After Arrival Of New VP, Who Is Abortion Foe," Huffington Post, January 31, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=269938&id=35307-1273282-BH7jsqx&t=8

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Shorter Komen: Nevermind.

DALLAS, Feb 03, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- 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.

The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. 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. 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.

Our only goal for our granting process is to support women and families in the fight against breast cancer. Amending our criteria will ensure that politics has no place in our grant process. We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities.

It is our hope and we believe it is time for everyone involved to pause, slow down and reflect on how grants can most effectively and directly be administered without controversies that hurt the cause of women. We urge everyone who has participated in this conversation across the country over the last few days to help us move past this issue. We do not want our mission marred or affected by politics -- anyone's politics.

Starting this afternoon, we will have calls with our network and key supporters to refocus our attention on our mission and get back to doing our work. We ask for the public's understanding and patience as we gather our Komen affiliates from around the country to determine how to move forward in the best interests of the women and people we serve.

We extend our deepest thanks for the outpouring of support we have received from so many in the past few days and we sincerely hope that these changes will be welcomed by those who have expressed their concern.
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It ain't going to be that easy to unshit this bed.
 
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