Race for the Cure-All Solution

[XLFD]

This last week, the Susan G Komen Foundation decided to cease its funding of Planned Parenthood, an amount of about $700,000 per year.  As first reported by The Associated Press on Tuesday, Komen had adopted criteria excluding Planned Parenthood from future grants for breast-cancer screenings because it was under government investigation, citing a probe launched by a Florida congressman.

 

Under pressure, they reversed their decision by the week's end: 

“We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political,” Komen said Friday. “That is what is right and fair.  We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants.”

More here.

 

The Susan G Komen Foundation is linked to finding a cure for breast cancer and to early diagnosis of that ailment.  It is under this guise that it invested in Planned Parenthood, where it's money was to go for mammograms and other breast cancer screenings.  Planned Parenthood is also this country's largest and most well known abortion services provider.  There are those critical of Komen's contributions to such an organization, when some of that money might be put towards the ending of a life, rather than extending the life of women suffering from breast cancer.

 

Undoubtedly, Komen's announcement for its defunding and then refunding of Planned Parenthood have made this issue a hot point of discussion among those that have or will contribute to that foundation.  Is this last week's actions going to make you more or less likely to support the Susan G Komen various fundraising events, Race for the Cure,  etc. ?

[Willy]

They have no business giving the money contributed to them to Planned Parenthood. I for one will not support them if my donations are funneled to pay for abortions.

[XLFD]

I agree; before the firestorm of last week most people, including I, would have never known that some of the money used for buying Yoplait was used to help fund Planned Parenthood, not cancer research.  Most liberals don't understand that this is deplorable to those that believe abortions are bad.

[Willy]

Aside from being deplorable, which I agree with, It is unethical to take a charitable contribution that someone has given in good faith and "regift" it. It also, in my opinion, may be fraud and possibly a criminal offense. What's the difference between that and someone collecting money during a fundraiser to pay for someones heart operation and then turning around and giving it to a freind for an abortion.