This is ridiculous. It makes me really angry…PP provides access to mammograms and breast screenings to millions of women, who will now not catch that cancer early.
One Congressman having a fit is an “investigation”?
Komen is run by idiots.
In related news, Brainiac4 cuts funding to Susan G. Komen. Seriously, if you don’t like what a charity does, don’t fund them.
I really don’t get why so called pro-life supporters want to defund Planned Parenthood. It totally baffles me. This is a foundation whose mission is to protect the reproductive health of millions of men and women who would otherwise not have access to that care. That includes DECREASING the numbers of abortions by educating both men and women about their reproductive choices. Surely they should be giving MORE money to this organisation.
Do pro-lifers offer any alternative low cost clinics where women can access the same amenities without offering abortions?
As for donating to Susan G Komen, not ever going to happen again…would rather donate directly to PP even though I’m not in the US.
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And there’s the problem right there. Most zealots fear education.
Didn’t Komen recently sue for exclusive use of the phrase “race for” or for wearing ribbons or the use of the color pink or something equally insane?
“According to Planned Parenthood, the group received $680,000 in grants from the Komen Foundation last year and $580,000 the year before. A wealthy donor in Texas has already offered to donate $250,000 to make up for part of the loss stemming from the flight of the fluffy pink cowards, but the family planning organization is scrambling to make up the rest.”
Oh good, now my mailbox will be stuffed with more end-times fundraising appeals from Planned Parenthood. Too bad, you’ll just have to get by on your Xmas allowance like always.
And too bad about Komen, especially since I never gave them money before and can’t cut my contributions now.
Except they don’t actually care much if at all about reducing the number of abortions; what they do care about is hurting women as much as possible. Abortion is just the club they’ve latched onto for the job. That’s why their behavior simply makes no sense from the viewpoint of reducing abortions; that’s not their interest in the first place.
I just bought a bottle of juice from a vending machine with a pink Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure bottle cap on it.
I can’t give the bottle back at this point, so I think I’m going to run the only protest I have left at my disposal. I’m turning this juice into piss – just watch me (if that’s your thing).
I’ve supported people raising funds for Komen before, but no longer. I’ll make sure that the fundraisers know why I’m not and I’ll look for other places to donate my money.
IMO, they do want to reduce abortions but they believe the answer lies in controlling women’s sexuality, not teaching her to control her own. And, more often than not, control via religious mandate.
I have to agree with this. I also think it’s puritanical mentality that wants to punish women for having sex.
Posts like this are why SDMB really needs a “Like” button.
Planned Parenthood has an online donation page, y’know. I won’t link to it here, but I’m sure everyone here knows how to Google. They got $25 from me this morning. Not a lot, but I hope it will help someone get a breast cancer screening, a well woman visit, an STD treatment or, yes, an abortion. Because those are all perfectly valid and appropriate medical interventions that we need to protect access to for our most vulnerable populations.
Pink ribbons always brought out my inner pinko.
My grindable ax was always that SGK was an entity of the entitled middle-class. “First World Problems,” and all that. But I kept quiet on this point during previous threads, since I’d rightly be corrected that everyone can be a victim of breast cancer, and research benefits everyone.
But this finally is open class warfare: SGK is illustrative of the conflict of charity VS socialism. Instead of government-run or government-funded programs, let’s fire up the Democracy of the Concerned; people directly funding good things instead of some government agent patting him or herself on the back for how compassionately he or she spends other people’s money.
Of course this is all bullshit. When affluent people give money to charity, they too are spending other people’s money: the wage-earning people who are short-changed by the unequal distribution of compensation and opportunity in our system. And PP relies ever and ever more on private contributions, while SGK not only channels charity dollars to research but also pays lobbyists to influence public funding there as well.
And one of the entitlements that the middle class will never rescind is access to abortions. Guys with good jobs marry women with good jobs; and good jobs require college educations. So if Alabama legislates abortion into the dirt, knocked-up yuppie Alabama women will simply hop onto planes to Oregon for an abortion/ski weekend. Poor Alabama trailer trash women will just have to adopt chaste, righteous lives.
I think it’s because the most vocal of them tend to be simpletons who are incapable of seeing past the dreaded A-word and looking at the big picture. It’s black-or-white, with-us-or-against-us, no-middle-ground thinking that is the hallmark of the weak-minded.
Either Komen is now run by these weak-minded simpletons, or they’re afraid of them. Either one is a good enough reason to decline to donate to them ever again.
Worse than that, they’ve even started suing charities that use the phrase “for the cure” as well.
They’re using SLAPP lawsuits…they never actually want to go to trial, because it’s very possible their attempt to trademark a common phrase will be found unlawful. But what inevitably ends up happening is that they go after the smaller orgs who can’t afford hours of legal help, and the smaller places cave. What a great foundation, eh, bullying the little guys?
A dear sister-in-law is undergoing breast cancer surgery at this very moment. I know her well enough to guess her opinion of SGK’s actions, especially considering she works in healthcare (like I do) and is also pro-choice and in favor of affordable healthcare of all types, especially for women in need. I’m sending them a letter telling them I’m not donating, to honor her and her struggle.
The Susan G. Komen foundation appears to believe that it owns the phrase “for a cure” and also the use of the color pink, at least for fund raising.
I’ll be donating today, also, just to make the point.
Plus sending an email to Komen telling them I just gave their money to PP.
And emailing everyone I know, especially those that FB & such (I don’t).
Because the publicity does matter - more than one org has backed down from a stupid decision if they caught enough flak for it.
Here’s Komen’s (Contact Us) page (it took a bit of digging to find it so I thought I’d share, hope that’s not a problem). I think I’m going to use “Report Improper Conduct” for my subject. 
According to the PP fundraiser I spoke to a couple-three weeks ago, they’d prefer a monthly donation to a one-time, if you’re willing. With monthly donations, they can better predict their revenue for budgeting, and they can reduce the amount they spend on fundraising efforts (thereby increasing their funds for actual healthcare). And I’m sure, also because people are lazy, and an automatic deduction is ever so much more likely to happen than someone having to make an actual effort to donate. So if you’re thinking about donating, consider that option.
I just emailed them reporting improper conduct too LOL.