You would think that one of the best-known women's health advocates would understand Planned Parenthood's purpose and value.
Wow. Just wow. I will find another breast cancer research fund to donate to. Komen has gotten their last penny from me.
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Apparently the Susan G. Komen Foundation believes that Planned Parenthood patients don't deserve a cure. By de-funding Planned Parenthood the Komen foundation demonstrates that Pink isn't the new Black it's the new Green. Because that's what you have to have to get proper health care and education in America it seems. I feel so betrayed.
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My perception of pink ribbons has fundamentally shifted.
What was once a symbol of inspiration, strength, and sisterhood now invokes feelings of betrayal, disappointment, and narrow-mindedness.
Shameful.
Vote with your feet ( or wallet) – but let them know why. We have seen if enough people tell a company why they are leaving / not donating any more, then they they could (and have) revise their stance. As have other companies when told why they were losing customers/suppporters.
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Okie dokie. I never really liked pink that much anyway. Time to pick a co-opt a new color and start the Planned Parenthood awareness crusade.
Remember when Komen decided they owned the phrase "for the cure"?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/komen-foundation-charities-cure_n_793176.html
Yeah. I stopped giving money to them back then. This doesn't give me any reason to start.
Another 'learning opportunity' when I explain to my children why we won't buy 'pink label' yogurt.
They were already on my $#!+ list for their overhead & low distribution rates. I have been underwhelmed with them for some time now.
Very shameful!!!
Here a petition to the issue: http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/komen_2/?rc=LA_komen_01312012_a1
If you want to cure cancer donate to the American Cancer Society… They aren't breast cancer exclusive, they believe in finding a cure for ALL cancer! I've never like the pinkers as the organization seems to be more about exploitation of a body part more than a cure for cancer. Some of the products in stores don't even really go to the organization either. It's a shame.
Stop the abortions and Komen will restore the money!!
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (and their main fundraising arm, Team in Training) have done TONS to treat and cure ALL cancers. We owe chemotherapy to the LLS (not sure what Komen has done directly, other than publicize walks and vomit pink merchandise — on several products loaded with known carcinogens, for companies that donate virtually nothing to the organization — every October).
Give your money to the LLS, walk, run, cycle, hike with Team in Training. They actually DO STUFF to find a cure, instead of slapping meaningless pink ribbons on crap.
According to PPH latest ffinancial statement they made over $1 Billion last year. They don't need the money.
Planned Parenthood prevents a quarter million abortions a year.
Here a financial analysis of Komen. "Funding research"?? well… umm… yes… sort of…..
http://cancerculturenow.blogspot.com/2011/01/komen-by-numbers-context-of-research.html
Thank oyu for sharing this. I too will donate my funds elsewhere. There is no reason for this kind of thinking!
Hm, that's really not on. Will be sharing so others know about this. Help should come without any caveats…
I think the main issue is that many people don't understand what Planned Parenthood is or they get their version of what it is from an anti-women's rights group/media outlet.
+Damon Barth THANK YOU for saying that. It's very very true. All the counseling and education PP does covers a vast array of women's health and reproductive issues. Researching them instead of believing the twisted propaganda anti-women's groups spew is a really good start. 😉
These are truly not rational people we're dealing with. My wife does PR for the Girl Scouts and she has to constantly deal with angry people threatening to boycott Girl Scouts because they think Girl Scouts USA supports Planned Parenthood, which they don't. It's like guilt by association without the actual association. I don't have a link, but I recall seeing that less than 10% of PP's budget goes to support their abortion services. Clearly that is not their focus.
Less than I thought, only 3%. So 97% of what they do is just supporting women's health issues etc.
http://www.factcheck.org/2011/04/planned-parenthood/
That's very true. Growing up in NJ they told us about PP and it's services. However I don't remember Abortion being something they talked about. I never thought they did them until my adult years and some group started attacking them. And I don't think they did a poor job in the school system by leaving that out either, I think it was more like "here are the main things and for a full list of services go to their office" type of deal.
+Gina Reed the PP in my hometown actually dealt a lot with abuse (sexual and physical) and teaching girls about basic body/reproductive functions. Most of my friends had immigrant parents (especially moms) and it was taboo to discuss these things. That and a lot of of the parents honestly had NO education themselves about the topics, so they usually passed a lot of mis-information to their daughters. We were a 99% Catholic town and abortion wasn't openly discussed. It was prevention and education mostly.
+Lynette Young Exactly. I think the closest one to us might have been AC and none of us were brave enough at 11/12 to take the trip down by ourselves on the bus but the only thing added we were told was you could get condoms there and maybe birth control. At that age we wanted birth control for acne and were too scared to have sex. 🙂
Planned Parenthood has personal history for me. My great-grandmother worked for reproductive rights with Margaret Sanger, the woman who founded the organization that became Planned Parenthood. The issue, then, wasn't abortion; it was contraception. They were harassed, threatened, arrested and imprisoned for the radical idea that a married couple should be able to decide when and how many children they wanted to have.
My great-grandmother bought condoms from people who smuggled them into New York City and sold them to immigrant women in lower-class neighborhoods. She was never arrested–I think she might have been a bit sneakier than some of her colleagues.
So yeah. Komen can shove it.
+Nobilis Reed OMG I love this!! What an amazing and inspirational woman!
Yeah.
And she wasn't the only one. My mom was 28 when I was born, which was quite old for a first child way back in 1964. The discussion came up as to why she had waited so long, and she told me about her grandmother… and then she told me about the third trimester miscarriage she had had when she was 23. While she was at the hospital, she asked the hospital chaplain for a baptism; he refused. So did the priest at the Episcopal church they were attending at the time. That child had a name. That child had a future planned for it. They had gone so far as to open a bank account! She was devastated. She said after that, there was no question of being pro-choice. She saw the hypocrisy behind the opposition to giving women access to safe, legal abortion and never looked back.
According to the press release the move had nothing to do with them providing abortion services. Komen had no other choice, their policy is to not partner with anyone under investigation by the federal goverment.
Actually the investigation is from a video that was taken showing PP personnel counseling clients on how to get around various state laws.
…They probably should amend that policy to be Federal law enforcement.
Agreed, do they stop funding any group being audited by the IRS?
They have a choice, change your policy to include found guilty of a federal charge or something along those lines. An IRS audit would make you under investigation wouldn't it? That could happen to anybody.
And?! That seems like an internal affair to me and it also is unfair to assume guilty before the ability to prove otherwise right? Investigation is just that, investigation. And if they are proven it was the whole or majority of the organization then make the call then. Again, you can change policy to having been found guilty of the charge. IRS audit is an investigation and that can happen without any criminal activity. Policy is still wrong in that respect and the public view on PP is also wrong.
I realize a lot of people are upset about this. All I ask is wait until all the facts are out before making a rush decision.
+John Lawless
What facts might we be missing? Seems pretty cut and dry to me.
Almost nothing these days are cut and dry. There are currently numerous investigations taking place in PP operations, not just the one in Washington DC. Lets see what all those investigations have to share on the subject. There may be things going on we just haven't heard about yet.
Are they law enforcement investigations or legislative investigations? Are they from elected officials or appointed officials?
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/02/komen-foundation-gave-75-million-grant-penn-state
Pot…meet kettle.
Ta-da!
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/03/politics/planned-parenthood-komen-foundation/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
PP's purpose is to kill little defenseless babies….Don't fall for PP's lies!