Komen Foundation pulls Funds from Planned Parenthood

gimmesometruth27

this is going to get ugly....


Susan G. Komen Top Officials Resign As Backlash Gains Steam

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/0 ... 50651.html

Dr. Kathy Plesser, a Manhattan radiologist on the medical advisory board of Susan G. Komen for the Cure's New York chapter, said she plans to resign from her position unless Komen reverses its decision to pull grant money from Planned Parenthood.

"I’m a physician and my interest is women’s health, and I am disturbed by Komen’s decision because I am a very strong advocate for serving under-served women," Plesser told The Huffington Post. "Eliminating this funding will mean there’s no place for these women to go. Where are these women to go to have a mammography? Do they not deserve to have mammography?"

With her decision, Plesser joins Komen's top public health official, Mollie Williams, and the executive director of Komen's Los Angeles County chapter, Deb Anthony, both of whom also resigned in protest.

Susan G. Komen, the nation's largest breast cancer charity, announced on Tuesday that it had adopted a new rule against partnering with organizations that are under investigation, and that it would therefore sever ties with Planned Parenthood, which is currently under investigation in Congress. The groups that prompted that investigation are anti-abortion advocacy organizations that have long criticized Planned Parenthood, primarily a women's health and family planning organization, over the fact that some of its clinics offer abortions.

Komen has faced an increasing amount of pressure from the public, women's health groups, lawmakers and even some of its own regional affiliates to reverse the decision and continue its five-year partnership with Planned Parenthood. The $600,000 that Komen donated annually to the organization provided underserved women with free and low-cost breast exams.

Planned Parenthood announced Wednesday that it had received $400,000 in donations in the 24 hours following Komen's announcement. In addition, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg said on Thursday that he would give $250,000 to Planned Parenthood to help make up for the loss.

“Politics have no place in health care,” he said in a statement. “Breast cancer screening saves lives and hundreds of thousands of women rely on Planned Parenthood for access to care. We should be helping women access that care, not placing barriers in their way."

A spokesperson for Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) said that he personally called Komen founder Nancy Brinker to complain when he heard the news on Tuesday, and he and 22 other members of the House of Representatives have signed onto a letter asking her to reverse her decision.

"This is an alarming development resulting from political pressure from anti-women’s health organizations," the letter says. "We ask – in the strongest possible terms – that Susan G. Komen reconsider its decision, as the health of millions of brave women everywhere demands the same kind of bravery exhibited the Komen Foundation."

A similar letter was signed by two dozen senators.

Komen maintains that pressure from anti-abortion groups and the recent hiring of vice president Karen Handel, who ran for governor of Georgia on an anti-Planned Parenthood platform as a Republican in 2010, had nothing to do with the decision. Founder Nancy Brinker went on the defensive Thursday during an appearance on MSNBC, saying that the decision was a result of a number of congressional and state investigations into Planned Parenthood, and that most people actually applauded the decision to defund the family planning provider.

"All I can tell you is that the responses we're getting are very, very favorable," she told host Andrea Mitchell. "People who have bothered to read the material, who have bothered to understand the issues-- again, we work for a mission every day of our lives."

Honda, whose chief of staff is a breast cancer survivor, said he is concerned that Komen's decision will set a precedent, in which any politician can simply open an investigation into a group they disagree with now in order to jeopardize that group's funding.

"We know that breast cancer does not discriminate, nor should our support to vanquish the disease," he said.

norm

The Decemberists are deeply troubled by Komen for the Cure's recent decision to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood, a vital resource in the battle against breast cancer. Providing cancer screenings to low income women is integral to the prevention and defeat of breast cancer and it is unconscionable that Komen should politicize this very important issue by bowing to the fear campaign being waged against PP by the right. We've decided to redirect the proceeds of the Team Jenny t-shirts and buttons away from Komen for the Cure. 100% of the net profits of these items will be instead donated to Planned Parenthood's Breast Health Emergency Fund.

Please help to support this essential institution. And, if you've supported the Team Jenny effort in the past, please write to Komen for the Cure via their site or via twitter (@komenforthecure) and let them know that undermining women's health for political reasons is unacceptable.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... n-20120202

SweetChildofMine

wow! nice!

SweetChildofMine

Huff Po makes it sound like the Vice President of Komen is resigning... thats more like it , not the radiologist concerned about mammograms.

Newch91

norm wrote:

The Decemberists are deeply troubled by Komen for the Cure's recent decision to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood, a vital resource in the battle against breast cancer. Providing cancer screenings to low income women is integral to the prevention and defeat of breast cancer and it is unconscionable that Komen should politicize this very important issue by bowing to the fear campaign being waged against PP by the right. We've decided to redirect the proceeds of the Team Jenny t-shirts and buttons away from Komen for the Cure. 100% of the net profits of these items will be instead donated to Planned Parenthood's Breast Health Emergency Fund.

Please help to support this essential institution. And, if you've supported the Team Jenny effort in the past, please write to Komen for the Cure via their site or via twitter (@komenforthecure) and let them know that undermining women's health for political reasons is unacceptable.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... n-20120202

That's great!

I've never listened to The Decemberists before.

Newch91

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/0 ... 50802.html

Mayor Michael Bloomberg To Give $250,000 To Planned Parenthood After Komen Cuts Funding

Billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged Thursday to give a piece of his own fortune to Planned Parenthood. The sizable donation-- in which Bloomberg will give $1 for every new dollar Planned Parenthood raises up to $250,000-- is in response to the controversy surrounding the Susan G. Komen Foundation's decision to cease giving grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings.

"Politics have no place in health care," Bloomberg said in a statement, according to The New York Times. "Breast cancer screening saves lives and hundreds of thousands of women rely on Planned Parenthood for access to care. We should be helping women access that care, not placing barriers in their way."

The Komen Foundation had been giving Planned Parenthood about $700,000 a year. In one 24-hour timespan since Komen announced that they were cutting funding, Planned Parenthood received $400,000 in donations. A Texas couple donated another $250,000. Bloomberg's pledge raises the total to $900,000.

This is not the first time the mayor has come out in defense of Planned Parenthood. When Congress discussed cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood's budget, Bloomberg said the idea was detrimental to low-income women, and noted that Planned Parenthood performs 12,000 cervical cancer screening and 56,000 contraceptive visits in New York City every year.

Bloomberg has also previously donated $30 million to a citywide program for young black and latino men, and $50 million to Sierra Club's "Beyond Coal" campaign.

SweetChildofMine

Newch91 wrote:

norm wrote:

The Decemberists are deeply troubled by Komen for the Cure's recent decision to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood, a vital resource in the battle against breast cancer. Providing cancer screenings to low income women is integral to the prevention and defeat of breast cancer and it is unconscionable that Komen should politicize this very important issue by bowing to the fear campaign being waged against PP by the right. We've decided to redirect the proceeds of the Team Jenny t-shirts and buttons away from Komen for the Cure. 100% of the net profits of these items will be instead donated to Planned Parenthood's Breast Health Emergency Fund.

Please help to support this essential institution. And, if you've supported the Team Jenny effort in the past, please write to Komen for the Cure via their site or via twitter (@komenforthecure) and let them know that undermining women's health for political reasons is unacceptable.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... n-20120202

That's great!

I've never listened to The Decemberists before.

Really?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fczvWSANXdo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpnAb2KJ8n0

They have also preformed for the Bridge School Benefit Concert.

Newch91

SweetChildofMine wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

That's great!

I've never listened to The Decemberists before.

Really?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fczvWSANXdo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpnAb2KJ8n0

They have also preformed for the Bridge School Benefit Concert.

The first song I have heard, never knew it was them.

The second song reminds me a little bit of Bruce Springsteen.

pandora

"The Komen Foundation had been giving Planned Parenthood about $700,000 a year. In one 24-hour timespan since Komen announced that they were cutting funding, Planned Parenthood received $400,000 in donations. A Texas couple donated another $250,000. Bloomberg's pledge raises the total to $900,000."


sweet and there are so many billionaires to help out

cincybearcat

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

Prince Of Dorkness wrote:

I think it's funny when Christians call themselves "pro life" and then do shit like this, proving that they're really "pro-death."

they are pro life until you are born. after that, you are on your own.

Ok, can we stop with the dumbass comments now. Please. I know it seems like you are really upset, but this statement is just ridiculous. Unless of course I can call you a baby killer for the entire month.

SweetChildofMine

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/opini ... ef=opinion

gimmesometruth27

cincybearcat wrote:

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

Prince Of Dorkness wrote:

I think it's funny when Christians call themselves "pro life" and then do shit like this, proving that they're really "pro-death."

they are pro life until you are born. after that, you are on your own.

Ok, can we stop with the dumbass comments now. Please. I know it seems like you are really upset, but this statement is just ridiculous. Unless of course I can call you a baby killer for the entire month.

how about you try to debunk what i said instead of labeling it a dumbass comment... :roll:

republicans only care about you until your are born. and if you are born poor they don't care. you are on your own. or at least in their ideal world you are on your own. look at the republicans' actions and proposed policies and try to tell me different please...

you can't...

why don't they stay the fuck out of a woman's life and out of her body?? her body is not a damn battlefield. that is the only thing she has, and the republicans, who are so for FREEDOM in all other situations choose instead to take away a woman's freedom to choose..... if there is another case of outright blatant hypocracy i have not seen it...except maybe the hilarious failed forray into trying to save terri shiavo...

cincybearcat

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

cincybearcat wrote:

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

they are pro life until you are born. after that, you are on your own.

Ok, can we stop with the dumbass comments now. Please. I know it seems like you are really upset, but this statement is just ridiculous. Unless of course I can call you a baby killer for the entire month.

how about you try to debunk what i said instead of labeling it a dumbass comment... :roll:

republicans only care about you until your are born. and if you are born poor they don't care. you are on your own. or at least in their ideal world you are on your own. look at the republicans' actions and proposed policies and try to tell me different please...

you can't...

why don't they stay the fuck out of a woman's life and out of her body?? her body is not a damn battlefield. that is the only thing she has, and the republicans, who are so for FREEDOM in all other situations choose instead to take away a woman's freedom to choose..... if there is another case of outright blatant hypocracy i have not seen it...except maybe the hilarious failed forray into trying to save terri shiavo...

Try and debunk what you said??? That's pretty easy. There are plenty of people that are pro-life that also give to charities, donate time and $. Your comment was such an over generalization and then you even improved upon it by now including all republicans. If you actually thought about it for a while, you would know what you said was bullshit.

Just like calling pro-choice people all baby killers. That was my point.

I'm not going to get into a debate with you about abortion as neither one of us will change each others mind, especially if you are going to just going to paint everyone that disagrees with you with the same brush. Some people fit your description...a lot of people don't.

Don't try and bring up hypocrisy. There is no hypocrisy there. It's just who's freedom you are more concerned with. You post only stiles any possibility for rational discussion.

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Komen RE-funds Planned Parenthood!

Good job, everyone who spoke out! :thumbup:


http://www.marketwatch.com/story/statem ... 2012-02-03
press release

Feb. 3, 2012, 11:14 a.m. EST

Statement from Susan G. Komen Board of Directors and Founder and CEO Nancy G. Brinker
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.

About Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R)

Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer. Today, Susan G. Komen for the Cure works to end breast cancer in the U.S. and throughout the world through ground-breaking research, community health outreach, advocacy and programs in more than 50 countries with a special focus on low-resource and developing nations.

SOURCE: Susan G. Komen for the Cure

norm

Susan G. Komen for the Cure to restore Planned Parenthood breast cancer screening funds, Sen. Frank Lautenberg says.

vduboise

I like that they have changed their stance, but their reputation is now questionable and will remain so.
I don't know if I would support them anymore. Like someone said- I'll just donate to the Cancer Society.

gimmesometruth27

first off...people who are pro choice are not pro abortion or pro baby killing.

we are for the right to choose. i don't like abortion and i don't know anyone who does. quite frankly i am disgusted by it, but i love the fact that the woman has a right to choose what happens within her own body. the republicans who spout off about freedom on here all day should be pro choice, but they are not. therein lies the hypocracy. "we are for freedom for all, unless you are a woman who got knocked up accidently..."

i am talking about the republican establishment in this federal government and the national GOP, and those running for president.

so what is the republican party's official stance on abortion? what is their stance on what they will do with medicaid? what is their official stance on planned parenthood?

when is the last time a group of republican politicians got together and said, "geeee, you know, i believe in freedom for everyone,and i believe in keeping government out of reproductive health and that we should not be trying to legislate what women can and can't do with their bodies..."

they can't say that, or else the national party will not fund their re-election bid...

those positions do not allow for debate.

but since komen has come to its senses this is all moot anyway.

i will still not give another dime to komen.

cincybearcat wrote:

Try and debunk what you said??? That's pretty easy. There are plenty of people that are pro-life that also give to charities, donate time and $. Your comment was such an over generalization and then you even improved upon it by now including all republicans. If you actually thought about it for a while, you would know what you said was bullshit.

Just like calling pro-choice people all baby killers. That was my point.

I'm not going to get into a debate with you about abortion as neither one of us will change each others mind, especially if you are going to just going to paint everyone that disagrees with you with the same brush. Some people fit your description...a lot of people don't.

Don't try and bring up hypocrisy. There is no hypocrisy there. It's just who's freedom you are more concerned with. You post only stiles any possibility for rational discussion.

cincybearcat

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

first off...people who are pro choice are not pro abortion or pro baby killing.

Oh the irony. Getting upset about generalizations while continuing to make them yourself. hey, whatever helps you sleep at night.

Personally, They can do whatever they want with their funding. But it makes sense to make sure that the people that support the funding in the first place are in agreement with your decisions.

JaneNY

vduboise wrote:

I like that they have changed their stance, but their reputation is now questionable and will remain so.
I don't know if I would support them anymore. Like someone said- I'll just donate to the Cancer Society.

That was me, regarding that I prefer to donate to the American Cancer Society, and I believe the Komen decision was reversed simply as damage control and to stop the public fallout. I do not think Komen has changed its spots, and I think they will try more behind the scenes strategies to effect the changes they were trying to make here, but they will try to do it quietly - I don't trust them.

vduboise

JaneNY wrote:

vduboise wrote:

I like that they have changed their stance, but their reputation is now questionable and will remain so.
I don't know if I would support them anymore. Like someone said- I'll just donate to the Cancer Society.

That was me, regarding that I prefer to donate to the American Cancer Society, and I believe the Komen decision was reversed simply as damage control and to stop the public fallout. I do not think Komen has changed its spots, and I think they will try more behind the scenes strategies to effect the changes they were trying to make here, but they will try to do it quietly - I don't trust them.

I agree. The same people who originally made the decision are still in power. So they will just do something else.