Should the Komen Foundation Stop Funding Planned Parenthood?

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Don't be fooled. This organization is in the murder business and makes a profit killing innocent babies. Shame on all of you that support it and work for it.

Bill of CA 8:03PM February 17, 2012

This whole episode reveals one salient fact: Those who politically bully (right wing) and those who succumb to that same bullying will receive no countenance from the vast majority of rational people in this country. They will suffer the backlash of those, like me, who detest the tactics, as well as the vision of those power greedy and wealth controlling groups who form a cancer upon this nation.
Religion has no place in the governance of this nation. If those who claim religion enhances the moral fiber of the society, all they need do is look at the damage their pseudo values do to the poor, the minorities and our middle class. They claim to honor the "founding fathers", yet all they rant about is constitutional amendments that further their narrow agenda. We're too smart for the likes of them.

Concerned citizen of PA 1:07PM February 04, 2012

Even if I believed the Komen statement and didn't know about the position of Karen Handel on wanting to get rid of Planned Parenthood (her standing when she ran a failed campaign for the governor of Georgia), I would be suspicious. She is blatantly anti-abortion and sees only red flags of her cause and not the well-being of women in their search for low cost breast screening. It isn't regrettable it's unreasonable for a foundation of this magnitude to take such a foolish position.

Susan M Mc Iver of NV 1:15AM February 03, 2012

I wonder how many critics of Planned Parenthood have ever found themselves in a situation where the only healthcare they could afford was at a clinic such as those run by PP. While I was in graduate school, I had no insurance and Planned Parenthood was the only place available for preventative care and treatment of a painful medical condition. Without PP, I would have had no care at all. Depriving women of those services because of the other services they offer punishes women who need the healthcare. Any organization that claims to support women's health must support clinics such as PP.

h Greene of NY 4:42PM February 02, 2012

I admire the foundation for sticking to their rule. Until it is proven that their funds are being used for breast screening and breast cancer education then the foundation has every right to withdrawal their funds. What the foundation should do is support more traveling free breast care screening clinics. I have seen them in my neighborhood and the line of women waiting was very long.

Sheila davis of CA 1:24PM February 02, 2012

The Susan G. Komen Foundation saves lives and has now proved that the Komen Foundation will save even MORE lives -- the lives of women's children.
Thank you, Komen Foundation, for defunding Planned Parenthood.
Howzat?!
747,000 breast exams at Planned Parenthood
1,791,261 abortions at Planned Parenthood
For every Komen-funded breast exam at Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood aborts 2.4 pregnancies*. And we're not talking about turtles, monkeys, or blobs of tissue. Abortion terminates living, human children. Each abortion snuffs out the life of a unique human being with its own DNA. Talk about human rights or civil rights!!! 53 million children aborted since 1970 in the U.S.
When Komen donates funds to Planned Parenthood for breast exams, that allows Planned Parenthood to take credit for a service funded by Komen. Komen's generosity also frees up Planned Parenthood net assets of $1.2 Billion U.S. dollars to encourage sexual activity among adolescents and college-age youths. That's $487 Million tax dollars each year that you and I pay for Planned Parenthood to prey on our nation's youth. (46% of PP annual income comes from the government.)
Planned Parenthood is the nation's largest network of sex education. They zero in on adolescents (1.1 million in 2010 alone), promoting "reproductive health" through the use of surgical abortion, chemical abortion (ie, emergency contraception), contraceptives, and sterilizations. The slick marketing of Planned Parenthood sells kids on this life style of "freedom to explore and the right to choose."
What is the outcome?
An explosion in sexually transmitted diseases, especially among young people. Treatment of sexually transmitted diseases is the only category of service that grew at Planned Parenthood from 2009 - 2010.
Worse, since when do abortive surgeries, death dealing chemical abortions, and high-powered hormones promote health among the developing bodies of young people? In fact, much research shows that abortion as well as the use of pharmaceutical hormones such as steroids and contraception has life-long damaging effects on people's reproductive health and increases the risk for breast cancer.
Thank you, Komen Foundation, for focusing on true women's well being and for making it just a little bit harder for Planned Parenthood to prey on the young people of this nation.
You did the right thing.
* All statistics cited are taken from the Planned Parenthood Annual Report 2009 - 2010 available online at Plannedparenthood.org/about-us/annual-report-4661.htm

Jeanne Valjean 10:34AM February 02, 2012

Thank you for no longer funding the planned parenthood organization. They shouldn't be funded with taxpayer dollars either.
On the surface "planned parenthood" would seem to be a much needed service. Unfortunately it seems to have become an abortion mill. If only 17% of your contributions are used for cancer screening then one would assume the rest (83%) is going for something else. Not a good return for the work your organization does.
Planned parenthood advocates abortions for teens without informing their parents. I find this to be way out of line for our society. Abortion should not be used as a birth control system.

Jerry Kaser of AZ 9:24AM February 02, 2012

I fully support the Susan G. Komen Foundation's decision.

Supporter of SC 8:37PM February 01, 2012

It's a shame when the extreme political polarization of this country begins to spill over into organizations trying to raise money for cancer patients and cancer research. The Komen foundation should think twice about this decision. In healthcare many of us try out hardest to care for patients regardless of religion, political affiliation, level of income, age, sexual orientation or anything else. If the Komen foundation was truly concerned about the individual person/patient with breast cancer and not politics, it would probably have thought this decision through a little more. In this country regardless of allocation of funds on the part of planned parenthood, you are innocent until proven guilty. I will no longer be wearing my pink ribbon and will be sending my donations to other causes.

Concerned physician of UT 8:25PM February 01, 2012