Please read the rest of the thread, and then come back and ask this again if you still don’t understand.
Pay particular attention to posts 81-85, 102, 108 and 113. Or you could just go to post 27, where the SGK Foundation actually answers your question themselves (several years ago).
Because there is nothing wrong with what PP is doing and I am grateful they do it. I support PP because they will perform abortions for women who need them, among the other things they do for women and families.
They are the good guys.
And more importantly, SGK funding does nothing but provide breast exams for women’s health. Why shouldn’t they give money to an org that directly achieves what SGK’s mission is.
For many women and a lot of college students, it’s the only women’s health organization they can afford.
Newsflash: Abortion is legal. No one - I repeat in large letters - NO ONE is forcing or encouraging anyone to get an abortion. It is a legal medical procedure provided by some PP clinics for women who have made the decision that they need such a procedure.
My last mammogram was borderline; I was instructed to have followups every 6 months. I no longer have health insurance. Guess who wishes there was a PP clinic in her city?
…What a bizarre take this is. Out of the blue, SGK just happened to realize that Planned Parenthood is a controversial organization and decided they should do something about it. They made the decision unbidden, weren’t lobbied, and it had nothing to do with the stated goals of someone who recently joined their company or their links to Republicans. It has nothing to do with the fact that Republicans have been pushing harder and harder to make Planned Parenthood synonymous with abortions (John Kyl) and eliminate it. They just woke up and discovered that some people didn’t like it, so they decided to sever their link to it even though the money they send to Planned Parenthood doesn’t fund abortions. Of course rather than discussing the controversial nature of Planned Parenthood and citing their wish to remain nonpartisan, they adopted a new rule about groups under investigation that just happened to apply to Planned Parenthood, which is the subject of a politically motivated investigation. You might think that if they were reallocating their funds because of Planned Parenthood’s abortion activities and because they respect pro-choice and pro-life views and wanted to stay out of the issue, they might just say so. But they didn’t. They made their funding choices, innocent as the undriven snow, and then the feminist harpies came a-lobbying and a-banging on their doors, howling for blood. Yes, this is exactly what happened. It’s so unfair.
If one were of a conspiratorial mind the heat, and smoke, generated by cutting off Planned Parenthood’s $680,000 would be excellent cover to obscure the $12,000,000 they cut from stem cell research given that only hysterical Jacobinist feminists care about all of this.
CMC fnord!
Jacobins? :rolleyes: I’ll take the Enragés, long live Jacques Roux!
And isn’t it quite a coincidence that this is another issue that’s a big deal for the religious right. There’s no agenda here. No siree Bob. All of those research organizations were under governmental investigation and hey, gotta follow our rules. :rolleyes:
I’m hoping that people start asking questions about this. I’d love to see their contrived reasons for those cuts.
While that may be true, women with limited access to healthcare may not know if they are in a sub population at risk until they come in and discuss it and get a baseline exam. So by defunding it, you put another barrier in place for low income women to have that conversation with a doctor.
It sounded more like lawyers and publicists carefully nuanced blather.
Not a real woman that created this foundation in honor of her deceased sister.. Fifteen years ago SGK felt like it had a real soul and heartbeat. Still feels that way at the local level. A lot of breast cancer survivors work at the local level. At the top its turned into a faceless corporate entity.