Posted on 02/03/2012 9:17:40 AM PST by Morgana
February 3, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a new statement on the Susan G Komen Foundation website, the organization says it wants “to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.” The statement is from Susan G. Komen Board of Directors and Founder and CEO Nancy G. Brinker.
It purports the foundation will amend its funding criteria to indicate “disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political.” Congressman Cliff Stearns of Florida launched an investigation of Planned Parenthood to determine whether it misuses federal funds to promote abortion.
It is not yet clear how this will affect the foundation’s new commitment to directly fund organizations that provide mammograms. This would exclude Planned Parenthood, which does not perform the procedure.
The statement adds it will meet with local affiliates this afternoon. Many are reportedly in uproar over the decision to cut ties with Planned Parenthood.
The statement says, “We do not want our mission marred or affected by politics – anyone’s politics.” It concludes, “we sincerely hope that these changes will be welcomed by those who have expressed their concern.”
Pro-life leaders say that the exact import of the statement is not yet clear. Austin Ruse of C-Fam, who has been in close communication with Komen since the decision was announced, said, “The mafia shakedown tactics may have worked, but we’re not sure.”
Ruse advised that pro-lifers should “take a wait and see attitude.”
Developing…
Read the full statement here
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.
The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not.
Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation. We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. That is what is right and fair.
Our only goal for our granting process is to support women and families in the fight against breast cancer. Amending our criteria will ensure that politics has no place in our grant process. We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities.
It is our hope and we believe it is time for everyone involved to pause, slow down and reflect on how grants can most effectively and directly be administered without controversies that hurt the cause of women. We urge everyone who has participated in this conversation across the country over the last few days to help us move past this issue. We do not want our mission marred or affected by politics – anyone’s politics.
Starting this afternoon, we will have calls with our network and key supporters to refocus our attention on our mission and get back to doing our work. We ask for the public’s understanding and patience as we gather our Komen affiliates from around the country to determine how to move forward in the best interests of the women and people we serve.
We extend our deepest thanks for the outpouring of support we have received from so many in the past few days and we sincerely hope that these changes will be welcomed by those who have expressed their concern.
They got caught, lost donations, now they are changing tactics and will go under the table to continue to fund the #1 GENOCIDE provider PP with funds. Any one who believes they have had a change of heart, is a fool!
We need a new foundation to cure Spinal Cancer. Apparently the Komen Foundation’s spine is eaten up with Cancer.
How do you save women from cancer by supporting abortion? How do you juggle finding a cure to an illness by supporting a culture of death? Is the NFL going to still wear pink? How does the founder tell her dead sister that she’s helping women by killing them? I’m confused.
The earlier posts today were pretty clear. The Komenists fired the pro-lifer who defunded Planned Parenthood, and now they have agreed again to fund them.
I read this latest statement through, however, and can’t make heads nor tails of it. It sounds as if they are trying to talk out of the third side of their mouth, and that is very hard to do.
Do you have a link to the story about who was fired?
Breast cancer will kill approximately 40,000 women this year. Abortion will kill 650,000 unborn women. I guess Komen’s commitment to saving women’s lives depends on their age and location.
our mission of saving women’s lives.
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54,000,000 success stories in 40 years
if you listen real hard, you can almost hear them clapping
This makes perfect sense.
They support womem’s health - by supporting those who kill baby women.
They support mammograms - by funding a company that doesn’t provide mammograms.
They support cancer reduction - by funding an organization whose primary product results in an increase in cancer.
And then - they want to lecture us - that it isn’t poltical, and why can’t we all just get along.
Very modern. Very Left.
I think it was inevitable that Komen would continue to fund PP, and I bet they will continue to fund embryonic stem cell research, too. Komen’s been joined at the hip to the culture of death almost from the beginning of its existence-that’s why it got so big, so fast, and the pigs who run Komen want to keep on feeding at that trough. At one time, Komen may have been concerned about women’s health, but no more. Now it’s all about keeping their own trough full.
Then, in the eyes of many observers, Komen decided to talk abortion at the Thanksgiving dinner table - and it shows how totally out of touch leadership was with the political and social realities that they were surprised about how that was going to work out.
Now that franchise is shot to pieces, there is no way to retrieve it, and in addition their Komen's administrative costs, executive salaries and funding decision process are getting a close look - often a public relations disaster in the case of high-budget charities.
I will give them this though: the current crisis management strategy is a brilliant example of how to have everyone furious at you, and will be taught as a classic case study of how not to do it for years if not decades.
Name?
Lowest risk: women who had one child.
Higher risk: women who had only one pregnancy that was terminated either deliberately or spontaneously in the third trimester.
Even higher risk: women who had only one pregnancy that was terminated either deliberately or spontaneously in the first trimester.
Highest risk: women who were never pregnant.
Sad.
My company sponsors Komen. I told a guy I work with that they fund PP, and he wasn’t even aware. Now that they’ve laid this turd in the punchbowl, everyone will know.
I looked at their IRS 990 filings. This is a badly run “charity”.
Revenue
Contributions
$285,794,584
Program Services
$34,417,471
Membership Dues
$0
Special Events
$27,473,679
Other
$1,623,681
Total Revenue
$357,832,083
Expenses
Program Services
$282,981,996
Administrative Costs
$26,276,602
Fundraising Costs
$33,720,165
Payments to Affiliates
$0
Total Expenses
$342,978,763
guidestar.org is the site for tracking nonprofits. Koman is getting killed there today:
Would imagine that if you asked 100 random people they would best answer, “...they collect funding to help fight cancer.” I highly doubt that any of those same 100 random people would say, “...they help fund abortions.”
Perhaps this isn’t fraud, but it certainly seems like something arguably close to it. Would think that most persons donating to fight cancer would draw absolutely no link to their donations flowing to any other purpose.
Remember, these are some of the folks that politicized breast cancer. It’s wise to never trust them, as we found out during this brief episode.
There is strong indication that abortion makes women susceptable to breast cancer. If it is true, these abortion fanatics would not care. For them, any rational thinking about abortion is off the table. It has become a religion.
There. Fixed it.
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