Susan G. Komen Apologizes for Cutting Off Planned Parenthood Funding

These people are idiots. First they can’t be honest about why they pulled grants, now they are going to lose the support of all the anti-choicers who rallied behind them.

it wont let me post the link but there was an article this morning on Motherjones pointing out they haven’t cut off the funding to Penn even though they are undergoing a criminal inverstigation,I dont buy that this wasn’t political caving to anti choice groups

Nancy Brinker stated they pulled funding for Planned Parenthood and they would not bow to political influence. Nancy you just ate your own words-caving to political pressure. As a Breast Cancer
survivor I will not support or endorse your organization ever again.

I’m so glad to hear that organizations actually are listening to the public. Thankful for technology that allows us to express our approval or outrage about what companies that our money supports are doing with their funds. But will you continue to fund Penn State- an organization that IS under criminal investigation?! I sure hope to hear next that you’ve decided to suspend their funding “due to your new policy”….

I don’t really care who they give their funding to, but when an organization is big enough to tell you that you are NOT going to pull funding and they get their way…then they wield to much power

I’m really glad to hear this. The anti-choice people will never understand that Planned Parenthood does so much good for poor and uninsured women. All they see is abortion and that is such a tiny part of what PP does. If it wasn’t for PP, I’d be dead from cancer. When I was young and had no insurance, I went there for my health exams. They caught my cervical cancer in the early stages and I was referred to an oncologist who worked with PP patients. I know my story is only one of tens of thousands. Thank you Komen for coming to your senses.

I want to understand this….A breast cancer foundation is giving money to other foundations? I thought the money went to breast cancer research, cure, … If this group is giving money toward abortions, then i will stop my monthly donations! Please clear this up….

Way to manage a charity! Conservatives not only polarized govt since the days of Gingrich, the country since Nixon decided to use abortion as a way to divide democrats, now even charities are politicized. Congratulations!

What a cowardly decision Planned Patent Hood is not about Breast cancer but about abortions This is a cowardly decision to fold under pressure from a bunch of people who are liberal and pro choice so to hell with those of us who are pro life Never again will we consider helping the great cause of breast cancer if it involves this organization

Well, I guess I have also changed my mind to give the SG Komen foundation any money. I will not be supporting you in any way in fact I have taken PINK off my list as favorite color. Good luck in the future I am sure that my small donation meant nothing to you and there will be much more money coming from the spiket of Big Brother. Nice going.

The Komen Foundation will recover from this, and move forward. Glad they owned up to their mistake, and are setting things right.

Any thoughts I had of EVER giving you any money have evaporated. How much funding does Planned Parenthood need to rub around on a woman’s breasts? They still won’t provide any mammorgrams to these women they supposedly care about. And now more abortions, i.e. KILLINGS, will take place, thanks to this switch. This is a sad, sad day.

Too bad, too late. No more help from me.

This is a clear thermometer test for how Americans feel about fairness to ALL of us, not the ideology of a select few.

SAMEAGAIN, yes, it’s clearly necessary to reming the anti-choice camp that they are, no matter how vocal, a minority.

Maybe the Komen Foundation should just change their funding of any and all other groups to strictly breast cancer research! That will take care of it. Most people probably thought that’s where their money was going in the first place!

WOW!!! SGK caved. Now they have lost respect from everyone.

I don’t understand why Susan G Komen is giving money to Planned Parenthood. They don’t even do the breast exams as they don’t have the equipment. They send the women to other facilities to have the exams. So if SGK knows they are doing this, then why not send their money to these other facilities instead of paying a middle man to do it. Middle man being Planned Parenthood. Then everyone is happy.

One more thing…I work for a very large school system that supports SG Komen every year with the walk and funds. I will pass this information around to every school in our district as well as the school board. I have a feeling SGK will be losing funding from this school system and its employees…I know this will just be a small dent, but if everyone that works pass this info to their employees, maybe it will make a difference. SIGNED, Roscosmom…Liberal, Gay, Agnostic, Mother of 3 that DOES NOT support abortion! Have a nice day….

So, do all those people who donated money to both sides out of anger get their money back now..Of course not KOMEN and PP are laughing their butts off about how they just doubled their donations for the year.

So here’s the standard to be applied. People who believe abortion is homicide are supposed to ignore that because it’s only 3% of Planned Parenthood’s budget while 97% goes to good stuff and admin costs. The Pro-Choice crowd was excoriating and boycotting the Komen Foundation because it was shifting less than 1% of its budget in a way that required Planned Parenthood the inconvenience of fundraising for one day. It didn’t matter to them that 99% of Komen’s funding went to great stuff. So, who are the extremists?

This was not about saving lives. It was about power. You have to admit, it would sure be nice to impose standards on others that you don’t have to meet yourself.

I’m done supporting Komen. Planned Parenthood is nothing more than an abortion factory outlet. The money from Komen allows PP to shuffle money and do more abortions. This is not about breast exams for PP, it never has been. Komen could have done as they said they would do and give the same money to other groups to do the exams. But the left and Democrats in particular want abortion on demand so their constituants are never inconvenienced by a child.

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As a breast cancer survivor I was outraged that this organization was giving to Planned Parenthood.
You won’t get my support anymore – I am prolife and think you need to get your support for and against things straightened out. We need a new organization that will be prolife, pro breast cancer cure, pro women who believe that life begins a conception!

If the Komen foundation spent as much money on cancer research as they do on co-branding themselves with household goods, pink t-shirts, key chains, water bottles and other pink ribbon-themed chachkis, they’d probably make some real progress towards finding a cure!

This is what happens when politics and religion mix. Two organizations that help women are in the middle of a political battle that neither can win.

While I disagree with the reversal I stand by their integrity in saying “We messed up.” That is, at least according to popular consensus but not necessarily the conviction of the majority. My last word on this subject is that I stand by the rights of unborn women. And can’t we discuss this without everyone callin geach other names?

PP provided my mammogram and hormone testing free of charge when I was without insurance. The mammogram was paid for by Komen and was performed at a breast cancer center that women who have the best insurance go to. They treat women without insurance very well and make us feel like we are not at some back alley clinic with 1/2 rate care. I have had used PP over the years many times and never for an abortion. They do much more.

I am trying to understand this new policy:
“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.”
If an investigation is “conclusive” then it is completed, which means there is no longer an investigation. Making the policy a moot point, yes?

“But the decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood comes shortly after Komen unveiled a new partnership that strengthens its ties to the George W. Bush Institute. The institute is the policy-making arm of Bush’s presidential library, which is scheduled to open in Dallas next year.”

Oh sure, it wasn’t political.

Too late. Once I saw how little of their money went to actual research and how much went to executive salaries, I knew I could no longer support them. They are just another profit center posing as a charity.

I remain hestitant to support an organization like Komen when they can be so easily swayed. Like any big corporation, they found out that their politically motivated actions might cost them $$$ and support so now they’re gonna back-pedal? A little much for me to want to jump back in. They need to prove that ALL womens’ health is their mission, not just those that conform to antiquated ideas about a woman’s right to choose.

@Librarians53 I’m not sure you want to go down that road on salaries. According to STOPP Int’l 18 of the top Executives at PP earn in excess of $250,000 per year. Cecile Richards the CEO makes $353,819. Pretty good gig if you can get it, that is if your conscience will allow you oversee aborted young children.

I am glad they reversed their decision but I won’t be supporting them anymore unless they fire Handel and even then… I just don’t know.

Baby Killing is a billion dollar a year business and the left is not going to let any money stream dissipate. There have been studies that link Breast Cancer to abortions yet that has not been mentioned.

Komen will not get a penny from me so long as they support PP. PP does not even provide mammograms. PP aborts millions of unborn babies. They kill more than breast cancer.

Baby Killing is a billion dollar a year business and the left is not going to let any money stream dissipate. There have been studies that link Breast Cancer to abortions yet that has not been mentioned. Posted by: ND | February 3, 2012, 12:42 pm……………………………This is the most ignorant and misinformed statement posted on this page.

I guess when all your friends stop returning your calls, or end up hanging up on you, these things can make a person change their minds about their position on things. GOOD for Komen. Remember everyone, conservatives hate free will and individual liberties and want GOVERNMENT to decide for you what you can, or cannot, do with your own body. They’re all about CONTROLLING the individual and limiting their rights. It’s essential for the forces of Good (liberals) to fight and defeat the “conservative” forces of evil and hate.

I would not give one dime to anyone that supports abortion and the lies they tell you.Why would they even be connected????They shoul never have given in.

Miike, I think Brinkers salary is excessive, Just as I think some of the salaries of the Red Cross execs (ceo gets over $650,000) or the American Cancer Society ($2 million!) are too high. I think salaries for non-profits should be capped at $300,000. They will still get very good people working for them at that price and more money will go toward the actual work of the charity.
No one aborts young children, as you put it. They are embryos or fetuses or very early on just a bunch of cells. Try to understand that most women who get abortions are in dire straits. Half of them are married women who have children, are in financial trouble or have health problems or take care of ill family members or have some other problem that being pregnant would be disastrous. I know of one married, working woman, who had two kids, her husband had cancer, couldn’t work and she got pregnant. Why should anyone tell that woman she shouldn’t get an abortion?
Planned Parenthood’s abortions account for only 3% of all they do. They mainly do exams, education and are the only source of seeing a doctor for many poor people. They did over 700,000 breast exams and the same number of cervical exams on women who wouldn’t have access to them otherwise.

I’m canceling my monthly donation now.

****They did over 700,000 breast exams and the same number of cervical exams on women who wouldn’t have access to them otherwise.****

THis is a false statement. You can get those services at any county health unit

The mothers that aborted their babies needs to get right w/the Lord, & ask for forgiveness for killing the greatest gift that God gives us to take care of.
So I do try & watch who I give my money too. if they support anything that I don’t agree w/I don’t support.

WE ALL WILL BE JUDGED IN THE END.

Love the GOP hypocrisy. I am pretty sure lots of GOP women have had abortions. Let’s cut off the B.S. Abortion is a choice just as much as lying and stealing are. And please don’t associate abortions with the left. Most abortions take place in GOP states. Look it up.

Planning parenthood one abortion at a time.

You must look at this in a different way. Planned Parenthood started in England and is based on the principles of EUGENICS. You MUST know your history or you will repeat it!! The woman from Koman buckled under hateful liberals who love Eugenics. Eugenics is based on an elitist idea to do away with those in our society that are “undesirable”. Hitler used Eugenics and actually supported Margart Saegar-the originator of Planned Parenthoods ideals!

VERYFUNNY-
Why don’t you ask your mother did she think about killing you while you were in the womb. & see how you would feel if she said she thought about it.

Too little, too late, Komen. Your face mask has been ripped off. Your reversal is weasel-worded, and, you STILL are nothing but a front for a radical, extremist RW agenda that is anti-womens’ health. I will still send my donations direct to Planned Parenthood whose only objective is womens’ health.

abortions should be stoopped. They don’t have to put themselves in that position. Society needs to train teeagers and loose women they don’t have to get pregnant to begin with. Teach them what to do or confine them to taking care and work for their babies and then they will know better.

SHAME on you KOMEN!!!! Dis GRACE ful!

No guts no glory.

The Komen Foundation will never see another penny from me! Never in wildest imagination thought this “work for the cure” foundation supported planned parenthood in any way, shape or form. What a major disappointment!

Guess What I will not give you one penny for your cause that kills babies / You give in to political pressures / SHAME ON YOU / GUTLESS

Robert, I believe this is a FREE country where you can choose to whom you want to give your money. Apparently that’s not the case anymore. Bleeding heart liberals only see what’s in their interest but not what’s for the greater good. Are you a bleeding heart liberal, that rather then fight for life abort it.

I think we should have another breast cancer charity open up that really does care about finding a cure and early detection. This just shows once they have all the money we donate for the cause, it does not go where it needs to. I bet she does not have to worry about her bills or if she can afford medical to take care of her. No because american stand up she is going to reverse the decision. How about it should have never happened. I know they get a lot of money donate.

Nancy Brinker stated they pulled funding for Planned Parenthood and they would not bow to political influence. Nancy you just ate your own words-caving to political pressure. As a Breast Cancer
survivor I will NEVER support or endorse your organization ever again.

It does not support abortion’s what the hell is wrong with you people. It supports breast cancer screening and it should not matter where they get the screening done!

The Headline is a LIE! Poor reporting by ABC – no surprise there. Komen will never support any abortion provider ever again. Period. At least all the Pro-Life press releases got it straight.

Mathew 6: 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Abortions are a small part of what PPH does. My sister had no insurance after she graduated High School at 16, she went to PPH for her yearly exams, they caught her uterine cancer at 19. If it wasn’t for their OBGYN services she would not be here. I didn’t have insurance through my job, nor could I afford private insurance, I used their services for almost 10 years – yearly OBGYN services & birth control. The location I went to only did abortions 1 day a week, the rest of the time they offered STD testing, OBGYN services, birth control and yes, they did breast cancer screenings (I’ve personally been screened there). The sheeple like to focus on one part of the services they offer. If that’s how it is you should boycott Kaiser Permanente as well, they perform abortions, and that is how your logic works, close your eyes and refuse to see anything else they do, just focus on that one thing. I am a pro-choice, mother of 2, I choose not to have abortions but I don’t feel my views or beliefs should be forced on anyone else.

I WANT MY FREEDOM TO MAKE MY OWN CHOICES!! I don’t need the government MAKING DECISIONS FOR ME! OK…so all your pro-lifers–what do we do with the 300,000 babies?? Are you taking them and raising them? Who will take care of the — the government??? Women are not having abortions because its a fun thing to do!!! So you pro-lifers — your daughter gets raped by her uncle or brother or dad or the sicko down the street — you gonna keep that kid and raise it and love it?? Give me an effing break–you’ll be first in line at PP. WE NEED TO KEEP OUR FREEDOM TO MAKE OUR OWN CHOICES!!!

The outrage about the Susan G. Foundation *retraction* shows that where there’s smoke there is indeed fire. I wonder just how much funding the Susan G. Foundation stood to lose when it hopped on the hysterical “kill the baby-kiilers” bandwagon? KBKs scream too loudly and think too little to care what the facts are. Therefore it is pointless to repeat the facts about Planned Parenthood services in this country where health care is rationed not by national policy but by personal economic status. Much better to send funds directly where they will help women most directly; all the pink ribbons and fancy pink sugar in the world won’t take away the bad taste of this sad little incident.

Sad and Ironic. Statistically, women who have had abortions are at higher risk for Breast Cancer. So Why is this organization whose goal is to aid in the cure for Breast Cancer, supporting Planned Parenthood, an organization that is known for advocating and funding more abortions than any other. Sounds a little self-defeating to me!

Abortions cause breast cancer. It has been scientifically proven. The noble and courageous doctors and scientists who are not afraid of planned parenthood openly say it. The others know it’s true but are somehow under the power of p.p. as is the Komen Foundation. How can Komen F. operate under such a dichotomy??? This will prove to be the beginning of the end of the Komen Foundation. Sad, very sad indeed.

Komen has opened the door to their inner workings and that exposes their policy changes since hiring Karen Handel. They have dropped their funding of stem cell research which involves millions of dollars to various research universities around the country.. WOW.. what a decision that is, given stem cells appear to hold the solution to finding cancer cures. Who is making these idiotic decisions?

I think Komen is all hype anyway. While breast cancer is a mega-killer, heart disease & stroke kill more women than all forms of cancer combined. You might want to talk to your doctor & go the the website for the American Heart Association to verify.

The outrage about the SGK Foundation *retraction* shows that where there’s smoke there is indeed fire. I wonder just how much funding SGK stood to lose when it hopped on the hysterical “kill the baby-kiilers” bandwagon? KBKs scream too loudly and think too little to care what the facts are. Therefore it is pointless to repeat the facts about Planned Parenthood services in this country where health care is rationed not by national policy but by personal economic status.
I agree — I thought SGK funded research. Is all the research done?
I agree that it is much better to send funds directly where they will help women most directly, or where the research is actually being done. All the pink ribbons and fancy pink sugar in the world won’t take away the bad taste of this sad little incident. On the bright side, it does clearly show once again how the dumbing down of America works.

Shame on them for even considering the cuts, they are there to help these women not pass judgmet on their choices, no wonder we are never going to beat this disease when all they want to do is save a buck and please the politicians and religious wackos.

India aborts 1 million females/year with gender selection. China is doing the same thing. Assuming one-half of all abortions in the U.S. are aborted females, 25 million girls have been aborted. Can anyone explain how abortion is good for women, when it is being used to kill females?

Planned parenthood provides awesome support for low income women. I got birth control (an IUD) that I don’t have to take out for 10 years from them for $120.

People are confusing what is actually being funded by Komen to PP… which is breast exams, not abortions.

And even though PP does provide abortions, most of the stuff I see them doing is educational/providing contraception. Prevents abortions to begin with right?

And to all the people bashing pro-choicers, all I have to say is nature. When a mother of 3 can commit to another child because it would detract from her others, is it unnatural to want to give up the baby? I don’t think so. Hamster mothers, for instance, will cannibalize their offspring when they feel they can’t provide properly for them.

It doesn’t matter. I will never trust them again — they have broken my trust in them. I walk no more; I buy pink no more. I will give directly to those agencies who truly care about women and are not interested in political agendas.

Man there are entirely too many men in this country up in women’s business. Hey boys, go after that billions in back child support if you want to help cut abortions. You have this entire area heaped unfairly on women and keep giving your friends a big pass.

There is a reason that politics and religion were kept separate…you are reading it ! HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE All in the name of GOD and POLITICS stop the spread of HATE !!! Stop watching shows that preach Hate or Radio that stir the pot of HATE for anyone who does not share the same points of view! We are all HIS children…..ONLY HE CAN JUDGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will no longer support Komen in any way. I can’t stand by and do nothing knowing Komen supports PP. My donations will now go to a local cancer agency.

They need to change the ribbon color from pink to BLACK. Please direct your donations to a charity that supports life.

“We are all HIS children…..ONLY HE CAN JUDGE !” True, but there is a difference between judging people and and their actions, and the admonition of not judging others does not absolve us of our responsibility to individually decide what is right and what is wrong and then acting accordingly. God did not sign up for the aggravation to come from giving people free will just so that they could simply follow the crowd and justify themselves for not taking a stand by “refusing to judge”.

I’m so over all of this. both organizations have their faults, both organizations care about the health of women and thats ultimately whats important. Women, especially those who have a lower income are dependent on both organizations. We need to stop fighting each other and start fighting alongside each other. For those of you who are pro-life-offering abortion service are only a small part of what planned parenthood does, if a women wants an abortion there are tons of other clinics as well as obgyn’s that offer those service. Planned Parenthood does pap smears, hiv/stv testing for men and women and they also offer birth control….thank about that they offer birth control. Instead of fighting abortion and making it illegal why not try to eradicate the need for abortion. Minister to low income women, teach families and young women about safe sex and abstinence and if they can’t commit to abstinence and can’t afford proper birth control then help then to get on birth control. Women get abortions because of un-wanted pregnancies so if women have affordable birth control available to them (most often provided by planned parenthood especially in these lower income areas) then they won’t get pregnant therefore they wont have an abortion. Instead of fighting the people who are trying to help these women out, help the women yourselves! Eliminate the need for abortion by teaching abstinence outside the four walls of your church and those who don’t want to be abstinent get on birth control. If you can eliminate the need for abortion then you have won your battle. We all need to realize that we will never all agree on this. We need to be tolerent of other peoples opinions and respect one another.

I will avoid any pink Komen sponsored product from now on and will not participate in the Komen run. I support research for breast cancer, I do not support abortion and do not want my money going to that. It is a free country so I will express my freedom in that way.

There is a reason Politics and Religion were kept separate……… your reading it HATE HATE HATE all in the name of GOD and Politics . If we spent as much time remembering that we are all children of GOD as we do watching HATE TV and listening to some radio that only stir HATE for anyone that does not share the same points of view I believe GOD would be happier. After all he sent us here to be witness…….never forget ONLY HE CAN JUDGE ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

All you people who talk about rape do not realize that for all the abortions less than 1% are attributed to rape. There are women who continually get abortions and the sex trafficking trade has their girls get abortions so they can keep using them. Planned Parenthood plays a huge part in this and does not care. QUIT ACTING LIKE YOU WANT WOMEN’S RIGHTS, THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR WOMEN, THIS IS BAD FOR WOMEN!

Well I can go back to not giving a cent to Komen. I hope their folks suffer ..

The fact remains that the majority of Americans, especially American women, are pro-choice and support the work of Planned Parenthood. Most Americans do not favor governmental interference in how individuals choose to live their own lives, whether related to gender issues or carrying pregnancy to term. Do what you want for yourselves, but do not attempt to tell others how to conduct their “pursuit of happiness.” You cannot inflict your personal beliefs on everyone else. You need to convince your opponents to come over to your point of view and not use coercion.

They have done the right thing! The “right to choose” should not be a factor in this matter. Saving the lives of women with cancer is all that matters.

Jerry where do you get your statistics, most women would not support an abortion provider to donate for a charity. Quit twisting the facts.

Killing unborn children will never be something we can agree on so all of the posters saying we should all hold hands and sing kumba-ya or very naive. This is about the killing of unborn children and how are society tries to deem this as acceptable. Murder of any kind is never acceptable unless the mothers life is at stake.

If I donated to this organization, I would never in a million years have envisioned that my money would be going to an organization that I disapprove of in terms of grants. Never again shall I donate and that makes me very sad. I lost an aunt to breast cancer and have long felt this organization was worthy. No more.
If this Komen provides a way to donate and specify that planned parenthood wouldn’t get a dime and it all goes to research for breast cancer, only then would I consider it. Otherwise, never ever again will one cent of my money go to them.
It pays to really look into an organization. Where you think your money is going, isn’t the case. How underhanded and an absolute sham. Planned parenthood is purely an abortion clinic in my eyes, I disregard anything they do and would never use or donate to them due to their KILLING. Isn’t Komen about life? How awful.

I can’t understand why the Komen Foundation hasn’t been hit with Federal Anti-Trust laws for preventing other organizations from raising money to fight cancer. This is called Restaint of Free Trade. It is punishable by a $10,000.00 fine for each count and ten years in prison. If a real estate broker did this or an insurance agent did this they would be in jail!!!!!!!!!

This is truly the work of the devil! We will continue to pray for an end to Planned Parenthood!

WOW..MYTAKE …WE have a responsibility to hold ourselves accountable to God… I don’t recall God telling me to pass judgement on everyone around me …….How selfrighteous ! “Let he who is with out sin” Only He can Judge as we stand before Him. YOU ARE NOT GOD ! and I don’t think he told you to do it for him. Like I said SELFRIGHTEOUS ! !

It is our duty as a citizen to vote and we can and will pass judgement on election day! To stay silent and allow the murder of defensless babies is a sin.

As someone who doesn’t really care about breast cancer, but really wants more abortions performed, I’m a bit confused on where I stand on this issue…

I have never believed that any of the money the SGK foundation raises is used for the purpose for which they say it is for. This is just another organization greedy for money and they use breast cancer to pull on our heart strings. Kind of like when the State of Texas agreed to have a lottery with promises to give money to schools and we all know it’s went everywhere but the schools. It’s all dirty politics and dirtier tactics.

The level of misinformation about Planned Parenthood is staggering in this day and age with the internet readily available to most.
Planned Parenthood doesn’t mix up funds. The money that the Komen Foundation gave was to enable poor women to get breast exams and mammograms. (And to those uninformed, women need breast exams as well as mammograms to have the best chance of detecting cancer in the early stages.) The abortions that PP does is only 3% of what they do. The rest is healthcare like exams, screenings as well as education.

Focus on cancer, not on politcal issues

I don’t know why anyone would donate ANY money to Komen. They spend 1 million $ of donated money every year on lawsuits to keep smaller charities from using the words “for the cure”. Komen thinks they OWN the words “for the cure.” 1 million $ a year could be better spent!

In all the posts I read I never saw anyone mention that it doesn’t matter what side of the fence you’re on, abortions will never stop. I happen to be pro choice (by choice) but I’m also a Christian. If I would ever have had to make the decision about abortion I recognize that it would have been MY choice and I would have to face my God and answer for it. For others to push their beliefs off on people who believe differently is just plain wrong. All that will change in this terrible battle over abortion is where women will get them. If abortion were outlawed today, rich women would go to Europe and poor women would go to back alleys! Is that what you really want? And frankly, men should stay the hell out of this discussion. Until they can become pregnant….they should just be silent. Funny thing is though, most of the loudest voices are men. Take care of you own body and soul and let GOD sort the rest out!

Trust needs years to build, seconds to destroy, anda lifetime to regain. I will need a number of years before I am willing to trust the Komen Foundation with my funding again, if ever, after this week.

Remember this lesson when you vote ladies. There isn’t republican running for office that thinks you should have control over your own body. Every one of the gop candidates for President want to outlaw abortion. The decision to have an abortion should be up to a women and not some radical republican. Remember this in Nov. This was our warning of what could be if they gain total control.

Susan G Komen-I hope you’re prepared for the fall-out of your decision to apologize to Planned Parenthood. God will not be mocked.It’s a sad day when women ignore fact that abortion increases a womans chance of getting breast cancer. It’s THEIR CHOICE afterall I guess. When you finally stand before God, and He asks why you thought it was ok to fund an orginization that sacrifices unborn children-what will you say? I’m sad for you, by continuing to fund them, you make yourself as culpable as they are:..( I don’t mean to condemn you, but search your heart and go with your instinct’s. God see’s you and love’s you.

Ilva-a BABY’s health and life is worth every penny! They are the innocent’s! PP is ANYTHING but innocent! Have you ever actually checked out the PP website? I have! It made me SICK. At least check it out before you endorse it.

Twilight-focus on the LIFE in the womb, not political issues! Cancer is heartbreaking, but the life inutero is as valuable as the life of the mother-and abortion CAUSES an increased risk of breast cancer!

God forgive us and help us all.

Geesh! sgk can say good-bye to my support. pink you sgk. thank you planned parenthood for helping empower women to keep themselves healthy and have families when they are physically, socially, emotionally and economically ready to parent our nation’s children. shame on sgk for disgracing a campaign that began under such purely good intentions.

Abortion has nothing to do with breast cancer. Pro-lifers as well as Pro-choicers should stop invading every forum with their lies and scare tactics.

Chris; abortion will NEVER be made illegal, it’s a booming business and has made many millionaires. Not the republicans or the pro-lifers will ever change it.

Holly, I’m not sure that PP uses money donated from SGKF for abortions, but they definatly use TAX money for them, they just don’t call them abortions, they are D&C’s for endometrial problems and just happen to find “products of concerption”.

This is insane. Lies and more lies from PP and SGKF, it’s all political.

What a hypocritical foundation. On one hand they are trying to save lives and on the other hand they contibuting to the murder of a child. You can quote the 3%, but Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion factory in the country. This is not about money, this is about the right of the unborn child! Get off your high horse and realize that a majority of this country against abortion! As far aes not supporting the social services, we wouldn’t have to have men and women were thinking about the consequences of what they are doing.

Very well said Theresa. God will be the ultimate judge, and all those associated with this terrible decision will regret ever having anything to do with it. To think you can put a price on the life of a human being, to serve your own selfish purposes is reprehensible.

I will never give to the Komen again. They sent my donation to an Abortion Clinic (PP) when they are telling me – it’s for Women’s Breast Cancer. What a distortion of their message. If they didn’t know before – they found out today – pulled their support … then under huge pressure from Liberals – Komen reversed and will again support PP. NOT WITH MY MONEY ANYMORE! Let NOW support abortion …. Not me. How deceptive. The Catholic Church just found out about deception … Pres. Obama really stuck it to us. Abortion, sterilization and condoms are a requirement for health care. He will not get my vote this time around. The Tea Party had been shouting “abortion is in the Healthcare” and we called them crazy. Hummmmm – They were right. No funds for Komen ….. No votes for Obama.

We will now consider any product or business sporting the PINK RIBBON or just saying SGK for the cure to be anathema and to be be avoided at all cost.

The link between abortions and breast cancer is proven so anyone posting on here that it is not has just not done the sufficient reading and research: “The National Physicians Center for Family Resources offers a CD intended for parents and health educators which cites “increased breast cancer risk” as a “long-term complication of abortion” and offers a biological explanation for the abortion-breast cancer link. The CD is entitled, “Prescriptions for Parents: A Physicians’ Guide to Adolescence and Sex.”
Denese: Don’t worry, I won’t. But don’t count on my support of any organization that supports Planned Parenthood. You support them if you want to pay for other women’s abortions.

My wife ended her 31 year battle against breast cancer in November. She and I both credited the Komen foundation and our local medical center with extending her life and the quality of her life far beyond what it would have been without them. For this I thank them and have supported them as much as financially possible in my circumstances.

If she were still with us, she would be as disappointed as I am that some person(s) in power in the Komen organization are bringing their personal politics of abortion and stem cell research to bear in the administration of the funds of trusting donors. Without a thorough and public house cleaning, I won’t trust them again. What a shame.

There’s nothing more anti-choice than denying a child any possible opportunity to choose EVER because of abortion. What cowards to deny life to these innocent little children who could have rich and fulfilling futures through adoption…and maybe develop a cure for cancer.

NORQ, I think you meant Rabbits, not ‘John’- poor John went through enough already. All the best to you, John. NORQ, I understand your point about saving lives, please understand my point is not about killing anyone who doesn’t have health care- my point is to follow through with programs that also help to save lives.The same lives you are trying to bring into this world. Government funded health care is good enough for my father who is a veteran, and good enough for all of our representatives. Why isn’t it good enough for you an me and our sons and daughters?

My apologies, John. I am used to comment sections with names above comments. My Father died of cancer at age 44. I am certainly for the research and curing of cancer. My main contention is that PP does not provide any types of these services relating to cancer. The money is taken under false pretences.

As to health care….veterans deserve better than that which they receive, and politicians should pay for their own out of their 6-figure salaries. It is not financially possible….it would be a bigger mess than the Government subsidized Mortgage fiasco.

Ever wonder why Republicans are pro life? They want all the babies to grow up so that they can be sent to fight wars. Go figure!

This organization has been hijacked by the Republicans. They have lost all their credibility. First they try to cut womens’ ability to get proper healthcare and then start yelling they are misunderstood. There’s no misunderstanding. It’s a fight for life for women. What disgusts me most is when men try to remove the right of women to control their own body. I approve the right of men to have their own children as soon as they can figure out how to do it. If men could have children, there’d be all kinds of healthcare available!

Ms. Brinker, you are but a conduit for the Republican Party and no longer can the American women count on the Komen Foundation for help. This is a perversion that can only be rectified by your resignation. It is truly mind altering to realize that even women can’t be trusted to protect other women. It’s truly disgusting and it makes me sick to my stomach. Please, please, stay far away from the Alzheimer’s Association. We can’t afford your kind of help.

Christine Lund

CHRISTINE LUND —Get a clue. I’m a republican but I am pro choice. I also believe that Komen should be able to donate to who,what and when they please. The lefts attacks on Komen are just plain wrong and unamerican. If I don’t buy girl scout cookies this year are you and your lame comrades going to show up at my door and demand that I do?

How SAD. She wants to keep giving to an organization that advocates ripping a fetus, with a beating heart, out of a woman and giving birth control for sex! They are promoting MORAL DECAY.PP is an evil organization.

I’m dubious at the outrage that many people have concerning this lack of separation of politics/women’s health. I honestly believe that this is a feigned outrage and is, in fact, absolutely motivated to support the mission of planned parenthood. I’ve no problem with the mission of planned parenthood, however, I will not be fooled by temporarily averting my attention from the existing politics and being distracted by some, so-called, moral high ground that you call “separation of women’s health/politics”. Please stand up, and make your position unambiguously clear.

“How SAD. She wants to keep giving to an organization that advocates …giving birth control for sex! They are promoting MORAL DECAY.PP is an evil organization.”

Thanks for honestly declaring your ultimate goal, ANN. For too long, the anti-choice camp has been largely controlled by those who actually oppose not only abortion but BIRTH CONTROL (but who usually publicly fail to mention that or deny it).

Keep your religion to YOURSELF. If you are opposed to abortion, don’t HAVE ONE. And if you are opposed to birth control, DON’T USE IT. The rest of us prefer to live in the 21st century, not the dark ages.

Maybe I’m jumping the gun here but after reading several of the comments I just had to put in my two cents wotrh. I’m not sure people understand what was reported. The liberal media reported that “the Komen Foundation was pulling the funding of Planned Parenthood therefore leaving women not able to get mamograms”. Heads up folks Planned Parenthood does not do mamograms, they do referrals. They, the news media, just wanted to stirup trouble for an organisation that has a different point of veiw than they do. And therefore must be destroyed. Most of what Planned Parenthood does for breast cancer is “awareness of” by either a professional doing a breast exam and/or teach someone how to perform one. How much does a referral cost and how does it really effect Planned Parenthood. I suspect very little. Maybe before one starts to take literally what the news media reports they should do a little homework to ensure reliability of the news. After all as the saying goes “buyer beware”.

Ann, your premise that birth control is promoting moral decay is ignoring all the married women who want to control their family size to match their financial and emotional abilities to do a good job raising their children. And that number of children is a personal choice, as family illness, financial problems, stability of the marriage, etc. are all factors that would change that number. It is not fair that some peoples religion’s beliefs make them feel justified that women shouldn’t decide how many children are rational for them to raise. Keep your religion to yourself.

PJ ~~ You are quite wrong. The vast majority of women walking into PP clinics are not there for abortion services. They’re there for cancer screenings (breast, cervical, ovarian, other), for prenatal care, for contraception, and many other reasons. PP also provides some services for men and children. Only a small few of the women walking in there are actually there to terminate their pregnancies, although they well might wish to avoid a pregnancy. Keep in mind that contraception is by far the best abortion preventative out there. No pregnancy — no abortion.

Ok, fine. The libs on here are using other health issues as to why donations should still be given to SGK. Well, unfortunately, since PP threw such a fit, I and others like me who had NO idea that this was even happening, are NOW TOTALLY aware and, again…thanks to PP tossing their fit…are now CHOOSING to pull our donations. Since the libs are SO “concerned” over women not recieving their screenings, I have moved my bi-annual donations to the american cancer society, who provides cancer screenings FREE and LOW COST, the american heart association who gives the same for heart issues and the American kidney fund. Each will receive 1/3rd of the total of what I gave to SGK twice a year. If I discover they are also related IN ANY WAY to providing abortions through thre PP or other entity, I will shift my donations again.There, LIbs…happy now? You want pro-choice…this *IS* PRO-CHOICE!

Yes abortion is political however this raises an issue of illegal action. If government funds are being given to planned parenthood, whether directly or through the Cure foundation they still must comply with the purpose of those funds. If the funds are suppose to go towards breast exams, than they can’t go for abortions, otherwise they are breaking the law. Both the Cure Foundation and Planned Parenthood would be held responsible.

There are strict accounting rules surrounding Governmental Accounting (Single Audit, also known as the OMB A-133) in which mandates that the accounting of government funds be accurately kept and support of where the funds are spent must be kept as well. Hiding it by mixing the fund into other bank accounts or through complicated transactions is allowed. Normal practice is to use fund accounting.

I’m assuming that Planned Parenthood was using thier funds for abortions, even though its only 3% of the services they provide, it accounts for a minimum of 17% to 34% of thier revenue (based off of 2009 and 2010 financial reports) People don’t have alot of faith in statistics so i would like to define the ones i’ve listed above (i.e. 17% and 34%).

Planned Parenthood had stated in their 2010 annual report there were 331,798 and 329,455 abortion procedures performed in 2009 and 2010, respectively. Abortion prices range around $500 (base price) to $1000 maybe even more. The revenue reported by planned parenthood was $997,300,000 and $969,900,000 for 2009 and 2010 respectively. If you take the amount of abortions and multiply it by the price for an abortion and divide it by the total revenue you will get the following.

If the Price of an abortion is $500
Abortion Revenue for 2009: 16.76% of total revenue
Abortion Revenue for 2010: 16.98% of total revenue

If the Price of an abortion is $1000
Abortion Revenue for 2009: 33.52% of total revenue
Abortion Revenue for 2010: 33.97% of total revenue

Don’t be surprised if this issue is simply an illegal action being hidden by the social outcry of womens rights.

I had no CLUE they were pro-murder of innocent babies, how hypocritical. (Abstinence people. It’s a choice, too) I’ll never give a DIME to the sgk foundation.