It’s extremely disappointing that Komen has caved. But it’s hardly surprising given the onslaught they’ve endured over the course of the last few days. The American Association of University Women announced that it would no longer include Komen among community-service opportunities for young women, more than two dozen members of Congress signed a letter urging Komen to reverse its decision, and the press has had a hissy fit of major proportions.
But the language of the climb down is truly infuriating. Komen CEO Nancy Brinker released a statement saying: “We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.”
There is no inconsistency in trying to save the lives of women afflicted with breast cancer and declining to provide funding for an organization that takes the lives of women (albeit unborn ones) every day.
So Komen caved to political pressure from the Left? Maybe they need some pressure from the Right. Everyone who recently donated to Komen based on Komen's original decision should call and cancel their donation now. Let Komen know that they can either help women with breast cancer, or they can help kill unborn babies. Our money should support Option 1, not Option 2.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSo, even at Komen, baby killing > cancer killing. Glad I didn't rush out and write a check like so many others apparently did. Their funding was up 100% after the announcement.
Left got you again, suckers.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseJim Cramer at CNBC has a show called "Mad Money", where he talks about stocks and the markets. Whenever he says a stock is a buy or sell, it tends to go up the next day on his buy recommendation, or or down when he says to sell.
He always advises his viewers to wait a few days before acting so that they can perform their own due diligence and wait for the initial frenzy to settle down. He also says to never buy or sell in the after hours market.
This situation with Komen shows that the same advice can be applied to charitable organizations, i.e., wait until the dust settles before committing.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseKomen got played, as PP used the opportunity to gin up its supporters in advance of what will be a very uncomfortable Congressional investigation (or at least the parts of it played on Fox News as the rest of the MSM will dutifully ignore it as much as possible).
However, what the American public got to see are the priorities of a large number of liberal "pro-choice" types. Clearly, abortion is more important to them than cancer prevention. The only possible way to describe this is "sick." Komen funded, what, $600,000 a year? That's a pittance of PP's annual budget. Once Komen made their decision, PP's response was all about the politics of it. This, even as PP supporters were screeching about Komen "caving in to politics."
I'll still probably give to Komen at some point. It's a good cause, despite this black eye. I will however write on my checks that none of my money can be used to fund PP, for all the good it will do.
PP is as morally bankrupt a business as their is in this country. But we live in an age where killing unborn children is only seen by some as a form of "family planning." We are still crawling out of barbarism, for all our pretensions otherwise. God help us.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt always disgusts me than anyone involved in the abortion industry, which routinely murders countless innocents, can use the phrase "saving lives" and still look themselves in the face every morning.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis whole fiasco is a lesson to me to do some due diligence before donating to charities. I have donated to Komen many times in the past, but I would not have if I had known about their partnership with PP. I have requested a refund of my hastily-made donation, and will not be donating to them in the future. There are plenty of other deserving charities.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse$600,000/year? How many abortions/year is that? Just trying to quantify how many peoples' deaths Komen is responsible for.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhy do you support killing poor and uninsured women? <-- that question is just about aas silly as your question...
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNot surprised in the least by this cave-in. Today, most people don't have the guts to stand up to the torrent of abuse and vitriol heaped upon them by the "tolerant" Left and their media hand-maidens. I can tell you this, I will not make any contribution that comes within a mile of PP, a group that ranks with the Khmer Rouge and the Order of the Death's Head in its contempt for innocent human life.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIsn't it a little ironic that those who proclaim that they are for "choice" just because it is a choice seem to be so anti-choice when it come's to not choosing to give to Planned Parenthood? All of a sudden, there is no respect for freedom, or choice, but only slavish obedience, coercion and vitriol for any independence.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThose who attacked Komen have revealed that they are not, in fact, pro-choice at all, but, as we all suspected, simply pro-abortion. Komen has no choice, but to give money to the nation's largest abortion provider.
I have walked a hundred miles for SGK at their walks and raised a nice pile of money for them (and apparently PP). Not any more...
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