Top Susan G. Komen Official Resigned Over Planned Parenthood Cave-In

[kpete]

Top Susan G. Komen Official Resigned Over Planned Parenthood Cave-In
FEB 2 2012, 9:28 AM ET 59
Sources with direct knowledge of the Koman decision-making process said recent policies were adopted specifically to cut funding to Planned Parenthood.

The decision, made in December, caused an uproar inside Komen. Three sources told me that the organization's top public health official, Mollie Williams, resigned in protest immediately following the Komen board's decision to cut off Planned Parenthood. Williams, who served as the managing director of community health programs, was responsible for directing the distribution of $93 million in annual grants. Williams declined to comment when I reached her yesterday on whether she had resigned her position in protest, and she declined to speak about any other aspects of the controversy.

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Komen, the marketing juggernaut that brought the world the ubiquitous pink ribbon campaign, says it cut-off Planned Parenthood because of a newly adopted foundation rule prohibiting it from funding any group that is under formal investigation by a government body. (Planned Parenthood is being investigated by Rep. Cliff Stearns, an anti-abortion Florida Republican, who says he is trying to learn if the group spent public money to provide abortions.)

But three sources with direct knowledge of the Komen decision-making process told me that the rule was adopted in order to create an excuse to cut-off Planned Parenthood. (Komen gives out grants to roughly 2,000 organizations, and the new "no-investigations" rule applies to only one so far.) The decision to create a rule that would cut funding to Planned Parenthood, according to these sources, was driven by the organization's new senior vice-president for public policy, Karen Handel, a former gubernatorial candidate from Georgia who is staunchly anti-abortion and who has said that since she is "pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood."

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/02/top-susan-g-komen-official-resigned-over-planned-parenthood-cave-in/252405/

[Skinner]

1. "the rule was adopted in order to create an excuse to cut-off Planned Parenthood."

This is so outrageous.

[MicaelS]

8. The real questions is "Who made the decision to hire Karen Handel?"

With her making her position so obvious during her failed campaign, they knew what they were getting into when they hired her.

[Skinner]

11. On NPR this morning they were talking about how the founder of Komen is a big GOP supporter.

I just found this from Mother Jones:

Susan G. Komen's Founder Is Major GOP Donor, Ex-Bush Ambassador

Tuesday's news that Susan G. Komen for the Cure is ending funding it provided to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings has led to increased scrutiny of Komen's staff, which—as I reported previously—includes a federal lobbyist who pledged to defund Planned Parenthood while campaigning for governor of Georgia.

Komen's founder is pretty conservative, too. Komen CEO Nancy G. Brinker, who founded the foundation in memory of a sister who died from breast cancer, was the chief protocol officer for the United States from 2007 to 2009 under the George W. Bush administration, and before that served as his ambassador to Hungary.

Brinker is also a major Republican donor, and has given more than $175,000 to Republican candidates and the Republican National Committee since 1990, according to donor data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. Her late husband, Norman Brinker, was the chairman of Brinker International Restaurants, which owns the chains Chili's, Maggiano's, and Macaroni Grill. Norman Brinker gave more than $440,000 to Republicans between 1990 and his death in 2009.

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/02/komen-founder-republican-donor

[leftynyc]

26. How nice

Then they can get their funds from sarah palin,michelle bachman and phyllis schafley. I told them to take me off all lists - email and mailings - and then doubled my monthly contribution to Planned Parenthood. There are plenty of organizations to donate to instead.

[SusanaMontana41]

31. Yup, yup and yup. I'm with you. n/t

[donquijoterocket]

38. it's

Reactions like yours, and the many others who've joined you that makes me believe that in the long run this will not work out for either Komen, the Republican party, or their T-bag fringe as they had hoped it would.
I'm sure they wished the same end for PP as they got for ACORN with nearly the same tactics. With enough direct support for PP they could tell Komen to urinate up a rope.It trends that direction.

[leftynyc]

42. I contacted every person

in my address book (the same people I hit up to sponor walks for Komen), told them what happened and why and asked them to consider putting their money elsewhere (while including a link to the Planned Parenthood page). I got a lot of good feedback - people are horrified.

[MicaelS]

27. Well this looks like this fish stinks straight from the head..

Just one more reason for any self-respecting supporter of reproductive choice to sever all ties with Komen.

[supernova]

34. So they get their $$ from shitty chain restaurants

Last edited Thu Feb 2, 2012, 01:44 PM - Edit history (1)

Maggiano's = The MacDonald's of Italian food.

I will have nothing further to do with SGK foundation. I never gave them money, never had that much extra but did participate in a couple of R4C events with my sister. No more.

[lark]

51. No wonder they are toeing the right wing line

I am so very glad I emailed them yesterday, as a 2x cancer survivor, and advised I would no longer contribute even one dime to them and that included cancelling the $500 check I had just contributed the day previous. I said when you decide to care about preventing cancer in poor women, when the care of poor women comes before right wing politics, me and others like me might come back to the fold. For now, I have cancelled my donation and will making no more to you. I am re-writing the check to go to the American Cancer Society. Yhey were actually really good to me when I needed them.

[Irishonly]

53. I thought everyone knew that

I don't remember when I found out but it has been years. I also knew about how the small per centage of money given to research because of my very republican aunt. She gave a donation to Lomen and was furious at how little went to research and this was in 1999. I didn't know until reading some of the threads there was a promise given for financial support for women fighting breast cancer that was never, ever given.

I support our local Breast Cancer Center. They do so much for the community and for women's health. The Breast Cancer Site funds free mammograms and also supports free trade.

[avaistheone1]

67. Check this out.

Nancy Brinker posted this youtube video today in an attempt to defend her position:

Look at the youtube cover page she set up to launch the video in the lower right hand corner there is a notation "As Seen On: The Corner" When I clicked on The Corner. It took me to the National Review's youtube page. IMO Komen is is flaunting her relationship with the Republican Party. I have provided a link to a clipped image of Komen's youtube page for the video she published today. I have highlighed in purple the link she provides to the National Review.
http://screencast.com/t/dnrNaFgu

'nough said.

[BeHereNow]

76. Honey, you are the POSTER child for birth control-

What a despicable person.
PP will survive and flourish thanks to women who hate women
like this lying SOS.
Sorry talking mouth piece, we don't buy your bullshit and
will no longer support your fascist foundation.
Our funds will go exclusively to PP from here out.

BHN

[Alcibiades]

106. She's eveil to the core

Just oozes out of her. Amazing she's been able to restrain herself this long.

It would be interesting to see what other supposed charities are actiually GOP front organizations.

[Fla Dem]

108. Yes, I found this out a while ago and discontinued my generous support.

I also sent them a letter at the time telling them why, 1. As she was a financial supporter of GWB and the GOP, I could no longer support her organization, 2. I felt the whole "pink" thing was getting completely out of hand with trade marking on everything. This was a difficult decision for me as I had lost family members to Breast Cancer. But, in the end I could not support an organization whose Chairperson had such deep roots in a political party that had such opposing views and beliefs to my own.

[MsPithy]

36. She very well might have downplayed her views, or outright lied to get the job.

The forced pregnancy cabal will stop at nothing to advance their agenda. Even lying.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/owning-pink/201004/oklahoma-law-allows-doctors-lie-women

[obamanut2012]

104. It's HER foundation -- she is the CEO and Founder

[The Doctor.]

59. The other REAL question is, "How are Handel and Stearns related?"

I got $20 that says they know each-other.

[Justice wanted]

2. GOOD!!! I'm sooooo freakin happy. Now perhaps they get this rule off the book and KOmen can go

back doing the GOOD and MUCH needed help that they have always done.

[Lex]

14. The right-winger didn't resign, someone resigned in protest

so I'm not sure how that means anything will change?

[Justice wanted]

17. I stand corrected. I'm sorry I was getting confused with the names. Me Bad. They needed to

toss the right winger out ASAP

[obamanut2012]

105. I think you may have them mixed up with another org

They have never done that much "good," especially when compared to other national, state, and local cancer organizations.

[truthisfreedom]

3. So, single-handedly, Karen Handel has made pink the new brown.

Pink stinks.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

19. so do "Chili's, Maggiano's, and Macaroni Grill"

women should refuse to eat there.

[texshelters]

81. Hold on their TTF

Code Pink is still awesome in my book, so lets be careful about which pink stinks.

Komen for the Cure, kills. That's my sign for them at the "Race" here.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[TheMastersNemesis]

5. Let'sJust Deport These Christians

Let's just deport these fundamentalists. They do this country no good. They are not religions but just businesses. Any fool can pull out a Bible and start preaching. They should get rid of that VP.

[Justice wanted]

6. These "christians"-i use the term loosely- are just as dangerous in not more so than radical muslims

and they do perform terroists acts but We are not allow to call them terrorists. Look the idiot who murder Dr Tiller. Look at that website that gives the name of Abortion doctors.

[baldguy]

16. Make no mistake: these "Christians" are **far more** dangerous than radical Muslims.

Mainly because they're here already.

[leftynyc]

29. Deport citizens?

I have no desire to live in a fascist state, thank you very much. How about we just get more choosy in who we contribute to? How about that?

[xfundy]

41. Gosh, this sure sounds like bait

This is the sort of 'message' fundies and other turds LOVE to pick up and run with--"Look what the evil libruls done done this time!"

I've assigned my made-in-China official plastic Baby Jesus™ to keep an eye on you.

[atreides1]

73. I have a better idea

Get all the religious fanantics gathered in one place...arm them all with bow& arrow, sword, spears, leather armor...and let them have the war they all seem to have an orgasm about...the winner gets to keep the territory.

And the rest of us will try to work things out without their constant interference!

[Trajan]

93. Oh .... and their god wins ....

by default ....

We will finally know which god is the 'true god' and stop the mamby pamby rigamarole about who owns the truth !

[dmr]

6. I'm too angry to form words right now

K&R

[aquart]

54. Thank you for your concern.

Anything that leeches Republican money works for me.

[Stuart G]

10. k & r Thank you for you, and for sharing this with us.

[Raster]

12. I have supported Komen in the past and thought I would again.

However, they will no longer get a dime of my money.

A woman's right to choose is my personal line in the sand. I am NOT pro-abortion. I AM PRO-CHOICE.

[LynneSin]

13. "I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood" means....

I don't get a rats ass about poor people. Let's keep them poor by denying them affordable birth control and let's watch them die by taking away affordable diagnostic tests for Breast and other women related cancers.

THe woman is not pro-life. No one who is pro-life would deny women affordable healthcare

[Raster]

15. The anti-choice, anti-woman crowd was NEVER pro-life.

That's just a dishonest moniker for the rubes. Anti-choice is anti-woman and anti-life.

[avaistheone1]

63. Brilliantly said.

[baldguy]

18. .

More proof that "pro-life conservatives" don't give a shit about life.

[tallahasseedem]

28. I LOVE this!

I was thinking just this weekend when I saw one of those spatulas how crazy all of this was getting.

[Lex]

35. Hear, hear.

nt

[renate]

69. oh that is GOOD n/t

[jeaps]

20. I have given my last

donation to the pink ribbon crew, sponsored my last walker, and purchased my last merchandising tie-in.

Even if this travesty is reversed, I will never support this organization again because it can be so easily manipulated.

I intend to write to companies who use "pink" merchandising to let them know I will avoid those products in the future.

[stopbush]

21. How long before we learn that the dirtbag R Rep who launched the PP "investigation"

colluded with dirtbag Handel to provide the excuse to cut off funding to PP?

The e-mails are out there. Believe me.

[gopiscrap]

110. Just what I was thinking

[NAO]

22. Ask congress to investigate Komen, then they will defund themselves -nt

[deurbano]

44. Perfect!

[Critters2]

87. Brilliant! Call congress RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!

[Javaman]

23. I have a feeling that this won't end well for Komen...

And is that the repukes final aim?

They take over and stop their contributions to Planned Parenthood. Check.

People stop donating to Komen.
Check.

Komen goes bankrupt.
Check.

Another domino for Pro-Choice knocked down by the repukes.

They are like a parasitic invader.

[MicaelS]

61. I don't understand....

What would be in it for the RW if Komen goes bankrupt, since Komen is funding breast cancer research?

[Javaman]

62. to them, that doesn't matter...

they were donating to planned parenthood.

all is blind to them as long as they believe "SOMEONE IS SUPPORTING ABORTIONS!!!11!11"

They have done things like this in minor ways before, this is their first real big public score.

[MicaelS]

64. OK, I see your point n/t

[texshelters]

82. There are other places that fund breast cancer screenings and research

ALTERNATIVES TO KOMEN:

Planned Parenthood
https://secure.ppaction.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=pp_ppol_Nondirected_OneTimeGift

Breast Cancer Research Foundation
http://www.bcrfcure.org/

Avon Foundation Breast Centre
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/avon_foundation_breast_center/make_a_gift.html

Breast Cancer Action (vocally opposed to Komen's cutting funding to PP)
https://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6098/content_item/donatenow

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[JHB]

65. Oh, I don't think it'll go bankrupt...

...it'll morph into something else to provide a cash cow for its executives.

[Javaman]

102. Good point. nt

[JHB]

107. Yeah, but won't make much difference for people who do actual work n/t

[hay rick]

24. Fight breast cancer without supporting Komen.

My mother had breast cancer and I am disgusted with this development. I did a quick search to locate other charitable organizations that fight breast cancer and came up with the following. Any information about these organizations or others involved in the fight against breast cancer would be much appreciated.

http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/

http://www.dana-farber.org/

Dana-Farber is supported in part by the Jimmy fund. This is one time a Yankee fan can get on board with all those Red Sox fans.

[xxqqqzme]

40. On Planned Parenthood's

home page http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ you can contribute directly to a breast cancer screening fund.

[HockeyMom]

52. $650,000 in donations to PP in past 24 hours per MSNBC

"Thousands of small donations". Telling?

[Raster]

100. I just donated to Planned Parenthood.

I urge others to do the same.

[hay rick]

56. Even better.

Went to their site and donated. Thanks for the heads up.

[angel823]

58. just donated

Use my donation where the need is greatest!

Angel in Texas

[Critters2]

88. The Avon Foundation for Women Breast Cancer Crusade

A pretty impressive list of grants in 2010. Doesn't include Planned Parenthood, but breast cancer screening centers in such diverse places as New York and LA to the Three Affiliated Tribes Reservation in North Dakota. Pretty strict guidelines as to who they won't fund as well.

http://www.avonfoundation.org/breast-cancer-crusade/

2010 grants: http://www.avonfoundation.org/assets/2010-approved-foundation-grants-website-final-2.pdf

[tallahasseedem]

25. I encourage everyone to go to their...

Facebook page and let them know what you think about their decision!

[myrna minx]

30. This adds another layer of sleaze to this awful decision. Wow. What hackery.

They've lost all credibility -you can't un-ring this bell.

[tularetom]

32. Looks to me like they knew what they were doing

when they hired a vocal anti abortionist for a responsible position in their organization.

They really didn't want to support PP in the first place.

[GoCubsGo]

74. Yep, and they're also purging all the decent people from the organization.

The L.A. head also resigned in protest. Get rid of all the employees with consciences, and they're home free.

[kpete]

33. Check out this tweet

Check out this tweet sent yesterday by Komen Senior Vice President, and self-proclaimed "Lifelong Conservative Republican," Karen Handel, who promised less than two years ago to kill funding for Planned Parenthood (several friends here in DC saw the tweet live before Handel apparently deleted it). And while Handel is simply "retweeting" something another abortion critic said, it does the beg question why she retweeted it, and then deleted it, if she didn't agree with it



http://www.americablog.com/2012/02/top-race-for-cure-official-lifelong.html

[renate]

70. "cry me a freaking river"

The slogan of compassionate conservatives everywhere.

[truth2power]

37. Here's the crux of it. Handel said...

'that since she is "pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood." '

When you hold an official position in an organization or agency, you keep your personal point of view out of your policy decisions. Policy decisions should be made on the merits of the issue at hand.

Doesn't that worthless cretin know the meaning of the word "objective"?

[xxqqqzme]

39. Cecile Richards, Planned

Parenthood head, last night on O'Donnell's The Last Word hinted at this. She did not directly say it but the subtext was there. Richards was determined to take the high road and not make breast exams political. Evidently koman has no problem w/ doing that.

O'Donnell was spitting fire over this. A woman he knows, w/ no health insurance, had her breast cancer detected and treated through Planned Parenthood. He said he had contributed to koman in the past but no more. He told Richards his contributions would go to Planned Parenthood from now on.

[avebury]

43. Link to Corporate Sponsors of Susan G. Komen

http://ww5.komen.org/CorporatePartners.aspx

[rocktivity]

45. Three sources with direct knowledge of the Komen decision-making process told me

...that the rule was adopted in order to create an excuse to cut-off Planned Parenthood. (Komen gives out grants to roughly 2,000 organizations, and the new "no-investigations" rule applies to only one so far.) The decision...was driven by the organization's new senior vice-president for public policy...a former gubernatorial candidate...who has said that since she is "pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood."

Well, surprise surprise surprise!



Maybe Komen should be investigated for discrimination and de-fund THEMSELVES!


rocktivity

[wordpix]

46. VA debating bill to end state subsidies for poor women to abort fetuses w/ serious birth defects

TODAY.

So I assume the same VA legislators, if this bill passes, will take care of those babies and children through their adulthood, right? These legislators will appropriate the billions of dollars these families will need once the babies are born and throughout their lives for health care, right?

Dream on.

[LostinRed]

47. The so-called investigation is simply bogus n/t

[Iliyah]

48. Bank of America

is also under investigation?

[MACARD]

49. since i live in Georgia, Glad i didn't vote for her.

The Problem is the guy who was elected Governor (again i did not vote for him either), is an even Bigger Prick, who has caused Georgia to sink ever lower into the muck of Recession.

[AmericaIsGreat]

50. So once the investigation is over, did they say they will resume the funding?

I don't get it.

[Lex]

60. The "investigation rule" is just a ruse.

A cover for the fact the right-winger VP of Komen wants to screw Planned Parenthood out of funds.

[AmericaIsGreat]

85. Right, but if the rule is that they can't fund an org when it's under investigation

Does that mean the funding will be back when it's not under investigation?

[SoapBox]

55. Stunning...

Looks like the Susan G. Komen Organization needs an investigation.

[Uncle Joe]

57. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[JHB]

66. PP is a symbol to them, they want to kill it and mount its head on their wall.

It's really just that simple.

[Lex]

68. Sometimes the lion eats the hunter. nt

[freshwest]

71. Now SHE did the right thing. Keep the heat on, kpete. Thanks.

[Hubert Flottz]

72. "Bush Family Planning,"

Snip...

Margaret Sanger shared the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) masthead with the current president’s grandfather and George Bush, Sr.’s father, businessman Prescott S. Bush, who in 1947 served as the treasurer of Planned Parenthood’s first nationwide fund-raising campaign. This at a time when contraception was illegal in his home state of Connecticut. A moderate Republican, Prescott Bush soon regretted this gesture. During a tight senate race in 1950, columnist Drew Pearson disclosed Bush’s PPFA ties in a national television commentary just days before the election. Bush lost by about a thousand votes in a state with a large Catholic population quite used to organizing to oppose birth control. “Many political observers felt a sufficient number of voters were swayed by his alleged contacts with the birth controllers to cost him the election,” wrote Prescott’s son, George H.W. Bush, years later. “The subject was taboo–not only because of religious opposition but because at that time a lot of people were unwilling to discuss in public what they considered a private matter.” It is interesting to note that George Bush, Sr. characterized his father’s contact with the birth control movement as “alleged.” The family vehemently denied that Prescott Bush had any association with the PPFA, a denial, as Kitty Kelley pointed out in her 2004 biography of the Bush clan, that the family never retracted. Turning his back on years of support for PPFA, Prescott Bush was elected to the Senate in 1952. (George H. Bush, foreword to Phyllis Tilson Piotrow, World Population Crisis: The United States Response [1973], vii; Kitty Kelley, The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty [2004], 114-16.)

Following his father, Prescott, George H. W. Bush became a vocal advocate for family planning while he served as a U. S. Congressman from Texas. He wrote a constituent in 1970: “I introduced legislation earlier this year which would provide federal funds for research in family planning devices and increased services to people who need them but cannot afford them. We must help our young people become aware of the fact that families can be planned and that there are benefits economically and socially to be derived from small families.” (George Bush to Mrs. Jim Hunter, Jr., Oct. 23, 1970 [Virginia B. Whitehill Papers, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University].)

Congressman Bush worked in a bipartisan spirit and carefully considered PPFA proposals in helping to craft family planning bills in the late 1960s. “. . . I was impressed,” he wrote several years later, “by the sensible approach of Alan Guttmacher the obstetrician who served as president of Planned Parenthood. It was ridiculous, he told the committee, to blame mothers on welfare for having too many children when the clinics and hospitals they used were absolutely prohibited from saying a word about birth control. So we took the lead in Congress in providing money and urging - in fact, even requiring – that in the United States family planning services be available for every woman, not just the private patient with her own gynecologist.” (Bush, foreword to Piotrow, World Population Crisis, vii.)

Bush also backed increased U. S. support for international family planning programs. As chairman of the special Republican Task Force on Population and Earth resources, he was “impressed by the arguments of William H. Draper, Jr. that economic development overseas would be a miserable failure unless the developing countries had the knowledge and supplies their families needed to control fertility.” As the U.S. Representative to the United Nations he emphasized the need for a strong UN population control program. (Bush, foreword to Piotrow, World Population Crisis, viii.) Read more...

http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/secure/newsletter/articles/bush_family_planning.htm

The Flipflopper in chief was for family planning before he was against it.

[Hubert Flottz]

75. Victims speak out about North Carolina sterilization program...

Victims speak out about North Carolina sterilization program, which targeted women, young girls and blacks

Snip...

North Carolina sterilization program targeted women, young girls, and blacks. Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in 1967. The state ordered that immediately after giving birth, she should be sterilized. Doctors cut and tied off her fallopian tubes. “I have to carry these scars with me. I have to live with this for the rest of my life,” she said. Riddick was never told what was happening. “Got to the hospital and they put me in a room and that’s all I remember, that’s all I remember,” she said. “When I woke up, I woke up with bandages on my stomach.” Riddick’s records reveal that a five-person state eugenics board in Raleigh had approved a recommendation that she be sterilized. The records label Riddick as “feebleminded” and “promiscuous.” They said her schoolwork was poor and that she “does not get along well with others.” “I was raped by a perpetrator [who was never charged] and then I was raped by the state of North Carolina. They took something from me both times,” she said. “The state of North Carolina, they took something so dearly from me, something that was God given.” Read more here...

http://www.whale.to/b/sterilisation_usa.html

[Hubert Flottz]

77. Native Americans Secretly Sterilized - George H.W. Bush

&feature=player_embedded

[Chakaconcarne]

78. Just Sent Komen Foundation an email....

indicating my disapproval and wavering support. Didn't know this PP thing had occurred. Total Crap!

Guess I'll have to find another Women's health advocate to donate my money to.

[still_one]

79. That the Komen organization wants to make this political is an outrage. Planned Parenthood helps

those who need it most who otherwise could not afford it

[texastoast]

80. No more pink for me

I've collected Yoplait lids for years. I've worn my pink ribbons. I've given money to walkers. I've bought the pretty pink jewelry, tools, and attended and contributed to the Parties in Pink sponsored by Zumba.

No more. Nada. There are plenty of worthy charities that will be getting Komen's money.

Who knew that Komen could be so easily swayed by their wingnut board member? Stupid shame.

[texshelters]

83. Hold on

YES! to _Code Pink_

http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?list=type&type=3

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[texastoast]

94. Oh, hell yeah

HOT pink forever!

[texshelters]

111. Great photo

of Code Pink in action!

PTxs

[texshelters]

84. Let's not confuse

the Komen dirty pink ribbon with the awesome and talented

_Code Pink_ organization working for peace.

http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?list=type&type=3

PTxS

[Raffi Ella]

86. K&R

[Fiber Lady]

89. Women's rights

I donated to Planned Parenthood today. It angers me that the religious right wants to take away women's rights.

[fantomas]

90. Congress needs to investigate Komen

Then, by their rules, they would have to stop accepting money, right?

[Paladin]

91. Not Another Pink Cent, Komen. Not From Me. (n/t)

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

92. What the .... WRONG PERSON WHO NEEDS TO RESIGN!

ugh, this whole thing just makes me sick.

[workinclasszero]

95. The teabag war on the poor and women rages on

These people are despicable. I always got something pink for my wife every year from this now right wing rethug outfit.

Never again!

They collect money every year for these republican stepford wife's at work so everyone needs to educate your friends about these haters of poor women masquerading as a charity. They are actually a front for the worst teabagger fanatics in the country it would seem.

[Badsam]

96. I am a big supporter of Planned Parenthood

[nolabear]

97. Sisters be doin' it for themselves!!

THAT's the way to take it to them.

[SoapBox]

98. CONTACT Komen here:

http://ww5.komen.org/Contact.aspx


5005 LBJ Freeway, Suite 250
Dallas, TX 75244

1-877 GO KOMEN(1-877-465-6636)

[spicegal]

99. Of course this rule was created as an excuse. Did the SGK foundation really believe people wouldn't

see right through it. Then I heard some incoherent gibberish from one of their members saying it was about some kind of new standards, "tightening up their metrics". Huh? I guess the first excuse just wasn't believable enough.

[Doctor_J]

101. As I have said previously, conservativism is a cancer

that spreads throughout the entire country until it kills it, just like untreated cancer kills a human.

[stillwaiting]

103. Interesting comment posted on Brinker's/Komen's youtube video...

...

"Nancy, do you really expect those who support your organization to believe that this sudden change in policies is not politically motivated? What else could have so quickly caused your organization to turn your back on a Planned Parenthood. According to a recent statement from your own organization "In some areas of the U.S., our affiliates have determined a Planned Parenthood clinic to be the best or only local place where women can receive breast health care." How did that suddenly change?"

So, Komen previously stated the truth that Planned Parenthood was the "best or ONLY local place where women can receive breast health care". And now, Komen has pulled their funding for Planned Parenthood. Gee, they really do CARE about women's health issues, don't they?!?!

Another comment within the ridiculous video Nancy posted to Youtube stated that Komen only donated about $700,000 per year to PP, while Nancy's salary was $500,000 per year. I think that this PR catastrophe for Komen just might end up being financially advantageous for PP. I certainly hope it will be. Sending donations to PP instead of to Komen by so many caring, informed people should result in much more than an extra $700,000 being sent to PP.

At least I strongly hope that's the case!

[Swede Atlanta]

109. My last dollar to the Race for the Cure has been given.......

I will no longer contribute to the Race for the Cure, support it in any way including links or other positive information about this corrupt organization. I contributed what I could normally contribute to each of the walkers I usually sponsor to Planned Parenthood last night.

We will ensure that women with few other options do get the medical care, including breast examinations, despite the wishes of that hateful Karen Handel. When she didn't succeed in even becoming the GOP nominee for governor of Georgia she had to decide what other community of unsuspecting victims could she terrorize with her wacky immoral beliefs. Now we know.

[Poll_Blind]

112. Perfect ending to a troubling story! A big K&R!

PB