"...cancer doesn't care if you're pro-choice, anti-choice, progressive, conservative."

[ProSense]

Komen abandons Planned Parenthood

By Steve Benen

When the nation's most prominent breast-cancer organization abandons Planned Parenthood, it's a stunning development for women's health.

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A spokesperson for the Komen foundation claims the group recently adopted new funding standards, cutting off grants to organizations facing investigations by local, state, or federal authorities. To put it mildly, that's a terribly weak explanation -- by this standard, if one far-right official targets Planned Parenthood anywhere in the country, for any reason at all, Komen for the Cure will simply cut off all grants.

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The result is fewer exams, fewer mammograms, more treatment delays, and an unnecessary setback for the health care needs for thousands of women.

Patrick Hurd, the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia, told the Associated Press, "It sounds almost trite ... but cancer doesn't care if you're pro-choice, anti-choice, progressive, conservative. Victims of cancer could care less about people's politics."

If only Komen for the Cure felt the same way.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/01/10288091-komen-abandons-planned-parenthood

[rfranklin]

1. Komen pro-life VP promised to defund Planned Parenthood, and they have

2011: Republican politico and anti-choice activist Handel is hired by Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an organization that runs the annual breast cancer fundraiser "Race for the Cure," and that gives hundreds of thousands of dollars to Planned Parenthood to conduct breast exams on women around the country

2012: Komen stops funding Planned Parenthood's breast exams after pressure from who? Republicans!

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http://www.americablog.com/2012/01/komen-pro-life-vp-promised-to-defund.html

[niyad]

4. well, good luck to them with their new bed partners. any group that caves to pressure from the

woman-hating reichwing fundies gets not one cent from me.

have you seen barbara ehrenreich's "welcome to cancerland"? most interesting.

http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/cancerland.htm

[wtmusic]

2. Not a justification, but non-profit fundraising is extremely vulnerable to controversy.

Komen probably thought they were avoiding it but created it instead.

[niyad]

3. they could not have been so stupid that they would not have realized the backlash this would create

but, as I told them yesterday, they can now look for their funding from the reichwing fundies and good luck with that

[Armin-A]

5. I'm sure they will get plenty of support still

but as for me....I think i've done my last race for the cure until it changes

[wtmusic]

6. After reading #1 above, I may have to change my opinion. nt