Posted on 01/31/2012 2:23:00 PM PST by Yossarian
NEW YORK — 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.
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.
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“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.
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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.
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Pro-life victory (a battle, in a larger war) PING!
Very good news indeed!
Unreal.
Hi AM-
I just realized when I posted this article, that I left the “AP Exclusive:” off the start of the article title.
The full article title is: “AP Exclusive: Amid abortion debate, Komen cancer charity halting grants to Planned Parenthood”
If that needs changing, please change it, and my apologies....
I thought the Komen people have claimed for years they HAD no association with Planned Parenthood.
Yay!!!!
Thank You Holy Lord for prayers answered.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!
Just looked at Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s Facebook page. The demons are out with their knives now. Very vile creatures.
https://www.facebook.com/susangkomenforthecure?sk=wall&filter=12
It’s a PR embarrassment for Komen and PP, but I would not be surprised to learn that funds are being smuggled to PP through a friendly intermediary. God rot them all.
This is a big victory!
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/01/31/komen-to-stop-grants-to-planned-parenthood-abortion-biz/
Listen to them squeal...
Now we will need to pray that they receive enough money to make up for the donations they will lose from the choicers.
HAH!
The liberal lefties at NPR have their pink panites all in a knot.
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/31/146160911/susan-g-komen-halts-grants-to-planned-parenthood
Every year there is a benifit run for Susan G. Komen group in Austin... not only will I be boycotting it this year, I will actively protest it.
So I take it that means you are for the early death of hundreds of thousands of women because they could not get access to the free breast examines offerred by PP because of the previous grants? Wow, you really are evil.
Why does the right wing care nothing about the lives and well being of women? Do they really think that women are just empty vessels for having babies?
more....
Figures.
Those posts at NPR are unbelievable! Is Komen about fighting cancer or funding abortions?, how revealing!
They KILLED 25 million of them. A real big help. 25 million female babies who will never become women. So sad, to say they are “helping” women. As if “helping” women kill their babies is virtuous.
These Lyrics from Keith Green's, A billion Starving People, tell it like it is.
I find it hard to just ignore, the murdered unborn children,
Yes times have changed, but still God warns, you shall not take a life.
I want to save a life today, I want to keep one alive for my Father,
Who will avenge the blood!
Of weak and helpless ones someday - whose lives are spilled out like water,
Lambs in the slaughter, and each one is handmade by Jesus.
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