Health

Susan G. Komen Foundation Halts Partnership With Planned Parenthood, Creates Bitter Rift

Susan B. Komen Race for the CureNEW YORK (The Blaze/AP) — The nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates – creating a bitter rift, linked to the abortion debate, between two iconic organizations that have assisted millions of women.

The change will mean a cutoff of hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants, mainly for breast exams.

Planned Parenthood says the move results from Komen bowing to pressure from anti-abortion activists. Komen says the key reason is that Planned Parenthood is under investigation in Congress – a probe launched by a conservative Republican who was urged to act by anti-abortion groups.

The rupture, which has not been publicly announced as it unfolded, is wrenching for some of those who’ve learned about it and admire both organizations.

“We’re kind of reeling,” said Patrick Hurd, who is CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia – recipient of a 2010 grant from Komen – and whose wife, Betsi, is a veteran of several Komen fundraising races and is currently battling breast cancer.

“It sounds almost trite, going through this with Betsi, but cancer doesn‘t care if you’re pro-choice, anti-choice, progressive, conservative,” Hurd said. “Victims of cancer could care less about people’s politics.”

Planned Parenthood said the Komen grants totaled roughly $680,000 last year and $580,000 the year before, going to at least 19 of its affiliates for breast-cancer screening and other breast-health services.

Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun said the cutoff results from the charity’s newly adopted criteria barring grants to organizations that are under investigation by local, state or federal authorities. According to Komen, this applies to Planned Parenthood because it’s the focus of an inquiry launched by Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., seeking to determine whether public money was improperly spent on abortions.

Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, has depicted Stearns‘ probe as politically motivated and said she was dismayed that it had contributed to Komen’s decision to halt the grants to PPFA affiliates.

“It‘s hard to understand how an organization with whom we share a mission of saving women’s lives could have bowed to this kind of bullying,” Richards told The Associated Press. “It’s really hurtful.”

Planned Parenthood has been a perennial target of protests, boycotts and funding cutoffs because of its role as the largest provider of abortions in the United States. Its nearly 800 health centers nationwide provide an array of other services, including birth control, testing for sexually transmitted diseases, and cancer screening.

According to Planned Parenthood, its centers performed more than 4 million breast exams over the past five years, including nearly 170,000 as a result of Komen grants.

Komen, founded in 1982, has invested more than $1.9 billion since then in breast-cancer research, health services and advocacy. Its Race for the Cure fundraising events have become a global phenomenon.

For all its mainstream popularity, however, Komen has been a target of anti-abortion groups since it began its partnerships with Planned Parenthood in 2005.

Life Decisions International includes Komen on its “boycott list” of companies and organizations that support or collaborate with Planned Parenthood. In December, Lifeway Christian Resources, the publishing division of the Southern Baptist Convention announced a recall of pink Bibles it had sold because some of the money generated for Komen was being routed to Planned Parenthood.

Aun, the Komen spokeswoman, said such pressure tactics were not the reason for the funding cutoff and cited Stearns’ House investigation as a key factor.

That investigation, which has no set timetable, was launched in September when Stearns asked Planned Parenthood for more than a decade’s worth of documents.

Stearns, in a statement emailed to the AP on Monday, said he is still working with Planned Parenthood on getting the requested documents. He said he is looking into possible violations of state and local reporting requirements, as well as allegations of financial abuse, and would consider holding a hearing depending on what he learns.

Many of the allegations were outlined in a report presented to Stearns last year by Americans United for Life, a national anti-abortion group, which urged him to investigate.

Democrats and Planned Parenthood supporters have assailed the probe as an unwarranted political ploy.

Komen, while not publicly announcing its decision to halt the grants, has conveyed the news to its 100-plus U.S. affiliates. Richards said she was informed via a phone call from Komen’s president, Elizabeth Thompson, in December.

“It was incredibly surprising,” Richards said. “It wasn’t even a conversation – it was an announcement.”

Richards subsequently sent a letter to Komen’s top leaders – CEO Nancy Brinker and board chairman Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr. – requesting a meeting with the board and asserting that Komen had misrepresented Planned Parenthood’s funding-eligibility status in some states.

According to Planned Parenthood, the Komen leaders replied to Richards with a brief letter ignoring the request for a meeting, defending the new grant criteria, and adding, “We understand the disappointment of any organization that is affected by these policy and strategy updates.”

Aun, in a telephone interview, said Komen was not accusing Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing.

“We want to maintain a positive relationship with them,” she said. “We’re not making any judgment.”

Richards said Planned Parenthood is intent on raising funds quickly to replace the lost grants so that women in need do not go without breast-screening services. Already, the family foundation of Dallas oilman/philanthropist Lee Fikes and his wife, Amy, has donated $250,000 for this purpose, Planned Parenthood said.

The Komen decision was perplexing to Dottie Lamm, a Denver newspaper columnist and breast cancer survivor. She has done fundraising for Planned Parenthood, participated in several Races for the Cure, and serves on an honorary advisory council for the local Komen affiliate.

“It really makes me sad,” said Lamm, wife of former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm. “I kind of suspect there’s a political agenda that got to Komen … I hope it can be worked out.”

Stephanie Kight, a vice president with Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties, said her affiliate in Southern California received a Komen grant for 2011 and was able to obtain an additional grant of $120,000 for 2012 by signing the deal with its local Komen counterpart just before Komen’s new criteria took effect. Under the criteria, no further grants will be allowed unless the pending House inquiry is resolved in Planned Parenthood’s favor.

Kight said her conversations with local Komen leaders indicated there was a shared sense of frustration over the national Komen decision.

“One of the things these organizations share is the trust of women across the United States,” Kight said. “That‘s what we’re concerned about – not losing the trust of these women, who turn to both of us at their most difficult moments.”

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  • spirited
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:48pm

    The cure is the mission …. saving women’s lives.

    Planned Parenthood provides breast exams etc.., and

    >how many fetus extractions ?

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:19pm

      The last figure I heard proudly reported by Planned Parenthood (now there’s an oxymoron ) was Eight Million “Life saving abortions”.

      I do not know the time frame, nor the geographic parameters. It had something to do with Illinois.

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    • Kankokage
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:25pm

      Am I the only one who noticed the choice of wording by the PP guy: pro-choice, anti-choice. Not pro-life, or anti-abortion, but anti-choice. This isn’t the first time I have heard this term used by abortion advocates. It is pretty despicable use of the language, in my opinion.

      And if Susan G Komen foundation ditched PP over abortion, then I think I might have a few dollars to send their way.

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    • RabidPatriot
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:37pm

      It seems absurd that a group with the main objective of saving the lives of women would be giving money to a group that is responsible for more death every year than breast cancer.

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:54pm

      Planned Parenthood is a joke. They did 329,445 abortions in 2010 at an average of $455 each. That comes to $149 million. PP does 25% of all abortions in the United States. They are a killing machine, it is their primary business.

      Read the stats here:
      http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html
      http://liveaction.org/blog/pps-new-abortion-numbers-going-nowhere-but-up/

      Not emotion, facts! Can you liberals handle that?

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    • chigger
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:48pm

      I have never bought anything with Komen on it because of their support for PP. If Komen really wanted to help women they can open their own clinics to provide breast exams without abortions attached to it. What really surprises me is that Komen supports PP at all with the all the studies that have shown women are at a higher risk of breast cancer if she has an abortion (or more than one) at an early age. They are suporting a place that provides a service that increases the chance of breast cancer!

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:59am

      My daughter is walking to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Foundation…If you wish to put your money where your mouth is, you will help find a cure for breast cancer. click link below
      Thanks blazers!!! Banjarmon

      http://www.the3day.org/site/TR?px=3050921&pg=personal&fr_id=1772&et=Ct4iNEseLEDi0EeCMzfO8w&s_tafId=478343

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    • Charity in Truth
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:57am

      Let me get this straight, if you don’t want to support the largest abortion business in the US you are anti-choice. Why would anyone want to donate to a business which kills babies in their mothers wombs? Now, if we could just defund abortions from any of our taxpayer dollars.

      For the record the Church teaches: 2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law:

      You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish.

      CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH http://www.scborromeo.org/mobileccc/p3s2c2a5.htm#2271

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    • Cousin_of_Marx
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:07am

      @Gold Coin & Economic News
      Your handle is some kind of ad. Good show, capitalist.
      As for liberals, how many of them do you think read TheBlaze?
      One more thing: if you start to think of calling me a liberal, you can stop right there.
      I’m a capital “C” Communist, thanks very much.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:10am

      @Kankokage

      Yes, I noticed that too…pro-choice and anti-choice. And yet they get mad when we call them pro-abortion or pro-murder. I still like what Alveeda King said….where are the lawyers for the babies? It IS a woman’s right to choose what to do with her body, but the baby is not her body.

      If that were the case, I could just take someone’s kidney if mine failed, because I get to choose what happens to my body. That baby is a separate person, and deciding to kill him/her is not the right of the mother just because it would be inconvenient.

      I’m glad to see that pressure on Susan Komen society worked. I quit supporting them, and I have stage 4 breast cancer.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:16am

      I think I can be the one to say it, since I have breast cancer: They will NEVER find a cure for it, since it makes so much money. It makes money for the fund raisers (who until now donated to an organization that caused more cases of breast cancer through abortions), it makes money for pharmiceutical companies who sell the chemo, the doctors who “treat” it, etc. I’m trying a new route (as this is my 3rd time fighting the beast) and eating more raw foods and going the nutrition route.

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    • carbonyes
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:51am

      Great move by Komen Foundation. Now instead of killing babies, Planned Parenthood can take those funds for murdering innocent lives and allocate it to breast exams to save lives. If Planned Parenthood should choose otherwise and continue to allocate moneys to abortion, the taking of lives, then we know where their heart attitudes and motivations lie.

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    • carbonyes
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:06am

      As usual, ENCINOM continues to play itself as the azz that it is. Not sure if it’s a Stepford or a no brain and no brand robot with a direct feed from Huffpo.

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    • Melvin Spittle
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:02am

      I would love to be a fly on the wall the day Cecile Richards stands in front of our Lord and attempts to justify herself and lecture Him that life does not begin at conception.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:09am

      Where is the concern for mens health….men die disproportionately of prostate cancer….why are they not out walking for mens prostates, testicular cancer, colon cancer etc? This is just another way to politicize womens rights by elevating them above everyone else. Right to Breast cancer screenings, rights to kill the unborn. If you elevate you discriminate.

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    • Melvin Spittle
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:11am

      Eight Million “Life saving abortions”

      We as a “civilized” society have become numb to what is happening behind the closed doors of these modern day death camps. We are no better than the German civilians that lived in the towns these camps were in. We are worse because there is no plausible denial: We KNOW that it is happening and good men have chosen to do nothing.

      What would Jesus have to say about this? Every last one of us on both sides of this issue already know the answer yet choose to ignore it.

      Evil is winning: For now.

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    • no_more_harkin
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:33am

      I guess the Komen foundation should take comfort in knowing that aborted children will never have to suffer through breast cancer.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:20pm

      Smart move by the Komen folks. Planned Parenthood will be defunded, it’s only a matter of time at this point. Better to cut ties now and budget accordingly. Good move.

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    • guntotinsquaw
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 2:12pm

      @Charity for truth…does the church know that 31.3% of abortions are had by Catholics??

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    • guntotinsquaw
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 2:39pm

      @Kankokage…It is pro-choice vs anti-choice…one can be pro-choice and not be pro-abortion…we will just tell you, don’t have an abortion that is your choice…but it is none of your business what I choose.

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    • coot
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:09pm

      Honey, it’s time to wake up.

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  • bwrobida
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:41pm

    It is a well known fact that abortion, which planned parenthood provides, increases the risk of breast cancer. What is the primary mission of Komen for the Cure? Finding a cure for breast cancer! Funding planned parenthood is counter productive don’t you think?

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  • patbarker
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:38pm

    in Margaret’s own words

    http://www.dianedew.com/sanger.htm

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    • Tower7_TRUTH
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:43pm

      When Does Sponsored Positive, Uncritical Coverage of Controversial Global Medical, Food Programs Become a Conflict of Interest?

      A big part of the problem is that Bill Gates, son of a top Planned Parenthood official, is in league with a group of wealthy eugencists working to reduce the world’s population. But instead of admitting the agenda he is working towards, much of his heavily-backed efforts are branded in “the media” under hopeful sounding terms like “global health,” “feeding the world’s poor,” “fighting disease” and other positive buzz terms. Look at the secret meeting of billionaires back in 2009, at which Bill Gates, David Rockefeller and numerous other celebrity elites gathered to coordinate population reduction-targeted programs. http://www.infowars.com/bill-gates-media-partners-praise-vaccine-gmo-programs-led-by-microsoft-founder/

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  • airhead0
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:38pm

    none of the planned parenthoods in my city have the equipment to do mammograms. hum? I live in the second largest city in Indiana. we have about 250k.

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  • Jeffersonian in CA
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:36pm

    PP works to stop as many beating hearts as they can,
    Komen works to keep them beating.
    Two diametrically opposed goals.
    This is a good thing.

    Isolate PP to expose them for what they really stand for.

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  • patbarker
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:36pm

    planned parenthood is nothing more than murder inc.

    Google margaret sanger…the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

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    • integrican
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:03am

      Margret only wanted to kill black fetuses!!!
      PP is an equal opportunity killing center!!!

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  • margiericco
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:36pm

    Maybe Komen was told the truth about contraception. Women who use contraception have a 60 percent higher rate of breast cancer. Let’s see – that means a group dedicated to the end of breast cancer – actually contributes to it.

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    • SHOWMESTATEGUY
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:20pm

      Maybe the Catholic Church is on to something here. They have always been against birth control. I would bet that the breast cancer rate is lower in the women that practice adherence to the true teaching of the Catholic Church- vs – the population of the Catholic Church that subscribe to the Nancy Pelosi type Catholic faith.

      Maybe God does have a plan.

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:05am

      Debunked myths that fundies tell themselves.

      http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/abortion-miscarriage

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  • Waterlylys
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:34pm

    Dear Blaze writers,

    You are misrepresenting the pro-life movement with your derogatory reference to people who want to encourage life affirming actions as “anti-abortion” please refer to us as pro-life. To do otherwise is to bow to the main stream media who refer to abortionists as “pro-choice“ and people who encourage life as ”anti-abortion.” Words count. The way words are used is important. I am not anti-abortion, I am pro-life. The Susan G. Komen foundation has made the best choice.

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:06am

      You are not pro-life, you are Anti-Women, Anti-Constitution, and Anti-Choice.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 2:04am

      Encinom,

      And you are…………..worthless.

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    • hoopsgulch
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:12am

      Encinom,

      As a BC survivor and a Catholic, I could not donate to Komen due to their ties to PP. I just gave 10 years worth of retroactive donations this morning.

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    • guntotinsquaw
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 2:23pm

      Waterlylys…Here is a great idea…instead of worrying about the 23% of non Christian women that have an abortion, why don’t you teach the 83% that is Christian not to have an abortion….since I am as far to the right as you can get and pro-choice…can’t I just refer to pro-lifers as NOSEY! And just so you know while you stand on the revised version of the word…Mosaic Law does not recognize the unborn as alive.

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    • RagingJudge
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 2:44pm

      What could be more un-American than ending a life before it has a chance to fight for and defend itself? What is it guilty of, “inconvenience”? Is that a capital offense? If so, should we just skip the trial? Guilty without a chance to defend its case?

      You may call me “anti-Choice” all you want. Everyone has the right to life, nobody has the right to make a choice of whether or not someone lives, at least until they violate someone ELSE’s rights.

      You, on the other hand, are anti-Life. Beware of the double-edged sword.

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  • matinva
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:31pm

    It is time. Time for those who cherish life to separate themselves from those who consider a fetus (it’s not a fish or a raccoon, is it?) ‘expendable’ so as not to inconvenience one’s life.

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  • bikerr
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:28pm

    Great decision!

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:28pm

    Both are sham organizations – they deserve each other.

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:23pm

    Well let’s see, one tries to save lives, one ends them before they can even start. I guess I would know which I would support, in fact when I found out they supported planned parenthood, I no longer bought anything pink of theirs, and won‘t for awhile until I’m convinced they mean it. I can’t understand why they hooked up with them in the first place. Didn’t seem like a good match.

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    • pghpatriot
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:00pm

      good decision Jenny! Positive Action. I would suggest you, and all the others who feel as you do, if you haven’t already, send your responses to the SGK fund so THEY know how you feel. Responding here is fine, but you all are preaching to the choir. The SGK fund might feel better and justified with this kind of support. Keep up the good work!!!!

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  • possom
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:20pm

    I wonder if this would have anything to do with obama telling the pope that the chatholic hospital‘s had one year to offer abortion’s and birth control or else?

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  • TimeForReason
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:20pm

    That’s wonderful news! It was always a ridiculous alliance. One is for saving life from cancer, the other is for murdering innocent babies in the womb for money or a convenient life.

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    • angelcat
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:19am

      Now I can contribute to the Koman foundation again. I stopped when I learned it had an alliance with Planned Parenthood. As a practing Catholic, I couldn’t it good conscience contribute to them any longer. I wonder if they will have a significant increase in contributions from this?

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    • hoopsgulch
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:40am

      Angel:

      They will.

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  • absolutelynot
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:15pm

    Bet ya the attack on the Catholic Church and religion plays a part

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  • David, the Constitutional Libertarian
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:14pm

    The US Progressives are giving Mao a run for the title.

    Us Progressives have killed 50 million and counting within the US. I wonder how many they have killed around the world?

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    • guntotinsquaw
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 2:35pm

      I think the Christian women that are responsible for 83% of abortions would probably tell you they are not progressives…

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    • David, the Constitutional Libertarian
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:14am

      I guess that would be a guess by you right?
      By the way, calling yourself a gun toting squaw kind of ticks me off.
      I loved an Ojibwa-Chippewa woman and she died, you miss really TICK ME OFF!

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  • Unix
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:10pm

    WE need to HALT Planned Parenthood period, they are no better than murderers, oh wait, they are murderers, sorry, my bad.

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  • kapu
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:06pm

    to preserve and/or keep any of their credibility in their true mission, they had to severe ties, methinks–end of story for my mind.

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  • Beachplum
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:04pm

    Fact number 1 – Not even one Planned Parenthood in the US has a mammogram machine.

    Fact number 2 – Abortion causes breast cancer..a PROVEN fact in many recent studies…yet SGK refuses to believe it?

    http://breastcancerawarenessnews.blogspot.com/2010/11/six-breast-cancer-research-papers-five.html

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:08am

      Lies and more lies by the Anti-Constitutionalists and Anti-Women fundies.

      http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/abortion-miscarriage

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    • Jbones
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:49am

      @Encinom, you have just exposed your ignorance. You keep posting your cancer.gov link without bothering to read the link you are purporting to rebut. I did read your linked article and the one before it (as any truth-seeker would) and saw that beachplum’s link specifically refers to your “study”.
      “To further read how the National Cancer Institute deliberately orchestrated the breast cancer workshop to suppress the discussion of research linking induced abortion to elevated breast cancer risk, please visit http://www.bcpinstitute.org/abc_nci.htm”
      You probably thought there was no link between smoking and cancer during the National Cancer Institute’s several-decade long denial of it.
      Why don’t you read first, think, then rebut?

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  • Taquoshi
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:03pm

    Although I admire the Komen foundation, I will not donate to them because of their ties with Planned Parenthood. Also, it seems to me that PP claims to give breast exams, but I’ve never heard of any location where they actually do that.

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    • Jenny Lind
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:25pm

      I think that’s the real reason, think they found out they had been lied to.

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  • disenlightened
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:02pm

    Glad to hear it. I’ve been spreading the word that Planned Parenthood is taking unknowing, well-intentioned people’s money and performing abortions with it.

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    • encinom
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:28pm

      disenlightened great screen name, taking pride in your ignorance.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:02pm

    You also can be Pro-Choice.

    Choose Christ!

    Choose Life!

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  • SHOWMESTATEGUY
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 8:55pm

    It would seem to me that Planned Parenthood will have to change its name if it wishes to continue to receive govenment, or money from any other source. Just change your name, kinda like ACORN did. You can continue to do your bad stuff and still get the MONEY.

    Just change the name.

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  • Rational Man
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 8:53pm

    Seems like a strange partnership anyway.
    One is a foundation for the health of women and curing cancer.
    The other is about killing babies and hurting the mental and emotional health of women.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:05pm

      Hurd said. “Victims of cancer could care less about people’s politics.”

      It’s not about “politics”, stupid!……It’s about people!…..Little people!

      I have no stats, but I bet abortion kills more babies than breast cancer kills women.
      I‘ve seen the undercover videos where a young woman couldn’t get a breast exam at PP. But she could get an abortion. Why would Komen want to help legitimize an abortion mill when they are all about finding a cure for breast cancer?

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    • 3monkeysmomma
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:17pm

      @rational man
      I just looked it up. You won’t believe it:

      -about 40k women die in the US annually from breast cancer.
      -about 1.3 to 1.4 MILLION unborn children are aborted in the US each year.

      That’s shocking.

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    • encinom
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:29pm

      a mass of cells is not a baby.

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    • Tired of Code Names
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:00pm

      @encinom…we’ve watched many of your posts for a long time. This probably does not sit well with my faith….but, since you feel so strong about how a fetus is just a “grouping of cells”….it’s a shame your mother did not feel similarly years ago and had your “grouping of cells” aborted. The rest of of would not then be required to see your complete ignorance of morality. Are you a member of legion?

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    • SHOWMESTATEGUY
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:35pm

      @ENCINOM————–

      A mass of cells my not be a life to you but it is for me. Get over it. Life begins at conception and you really can’t change that Nancy.

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    • Tresse
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:54pm

      ENCINOM, What part of race for the CURE don’t you understand? How is giving money to this organization helping to find a CURE?

      “I kind of suspect there’s a political agenda that got to Komen …” The people on the left sure can‘t take it when it isn’t their political agenda!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 8:50pm

    Better for Komen; bitter for PP. But, PP deserves failure; it could only save lives.

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    • encinom
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:30pm

      Komen has just punished the women it claims with was helping and has lost donor because of their political cowardice.

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    • margiericco
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:39pm

      @Encinom
      You have exactly backward. Komen was punishing the women it claimed to be helping by selling them to contraceptive lie. It causes breast cancer at a much higher rate than in women who do not contracept – 60 percent higher.

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    • Smokey_Bojangles
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:41pm

      Save the Ta Tas and kill the babies that feed off of them?

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:58pm

      @Encinom

      YOU ARE LOSING.
      THE WAR HAS TURNED, AND THEIR IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.

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    • Cousin_of_Marx
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:09am

      @TulsaYeeHaw YOU ARE THE VOICE IN YOUR HEAD THAT YOU HEAR.
      STOP COMMUNICATING WITH OTHERS AND START TAKING YOUR MEDS AGAIN.
      THAT IS ALL.

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    • Link8on
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:32am

      @Encinom

      What you called a group of cells is your future brother, or your future sister.

      BHO says be your ” brother’s keeper.”

      After a few years of spotlighting this fact;
      SGK finally sees the other sister murdering the future brother, and took courageous action.

      Only cowards would keep a faulty tradition when they know there is a better way.

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