Posted on 02/04/2012 12:57:36 AM PST by Las Vegas Dave
Edited on 02/04/2012 8:57:44 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
NEW YORK -- For leaders of the nation's pre-eminent breast-cancer charity, it was a firestorm they didn't see coming
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So, will the people who donated to Komen when they announced no more $$ to PP get their donations returned?
Isn’t it true that PP has never perforemd a single mammogram at their facilities?
oops, performed, not perforemd...past my bedtime.
< snip > During a conference call with reporters this afternoon, Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure CEO Nancy Brinker and President Elizabeth Thompson revealed the main reason why the Planned Parenthood abortion business lost its funding. It doesn’t do mammograms. < /snip >
liberals threatened to saw off komen unless it continued its alliance with the ever troubled planned barrenhood
Komen is not a charity as much as it is a business. The pink ribbon is used as a sales gimmick for soft drinks and laundry products. Komen even has gone so far as to sue to protect the use of the words “the Cure.”
I wonder what abortion has to do with curing breast cancer. People donate to Komen, or buy products with Komen decorations on them, expecting that the money will be spent researching the causes of breast cancer, methods of detection and prevention, and hopefully curing the disease. If Komen is spending money to fund abortion clinics, they must not be working all that hard on curing breast cancer. Every dime that goes to abortion is a dime not spent on breast cancer research. That means they are lying.
Anyway, I stopped buying into the whole Susan G. Komen thing years ago.
What got me in all of this, with all the liberals screaming on Facebook, was when I pointed out, using PP’s 990 tax filings (from their website) showing that the entire grant from Komen went to increase the salaries of the top ten people in the organization (actually, the raises were 735k), the rose colored glasses came out and the statements were that ‘they do hard work, they deserve to be compensated.’ When I pointed out that these raises accompanied reductions in hours from 40 to 35 a week, it was again stated that it was just compensation. When I pointed out that in the last filing, the hours per week had drifted down to just a mere 30 hours, it was again stated that they work hard for their money.
When I pointed out that every single one of them were in the top 1% income bracket, the outrage was directed at me for wanting to shut down women's health clinics.
And three unfriended me when I pointed out that the only standard being applied in this whole argument was the typical refuge of the liberal - a double standard.
So they instead bowed to pro-abortion pressure. It isn't what is right any longer; it's who can bring the most pressure.
Some womens lives. Obviously if you fund planned parenthood you will not be saving tens of thousands of innocent unborn women..
You caved to the extremists. Shame on you
This kind of political bullying — folks are just saying, `Enough.“’
Your organization and the extremist it draws are the bullies.
I am sure the babies you kill would believe that........
What a tragedy. Have you heard of any other breast cancer charity that doesn’t support pp? Maybe Komen needs competition.
Like most of the so called “Planned Parenthood” they just cannot form nor speak the words”Pro-Life.”
Our daughter will be 39 this year, and she is the mother of 4 children. If we had followed the so called “Planned Parenthood” advise none of those living precious children would be living.
The only true plans of “Planned Parenthood” is is to have no children at all, then you would not be a parent.
If the truth be known, abortions contribute to the cause of breast cancer.
My wife and I only give to charities that are end users rather than middlemen that take a chunk out.
Hey, at least you tried. The statement below typifies what comes out of the mouths of progressives when their pig gets stuck. Tell me what association there should be between a public funded abortion facility and a private group seeking a cure for breast cancer? Actually the question is rhetorical.
The insane ramblings of one responsible in large part for the out of control spending that has resulted in a mountain of debt secured by the past present and future labor of the entire population of the American people. “It’s a great day when our deeply held belief that breast cancer can only be wiped out if we all work together has triumphed over right-wing politics,” said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.
We have never donated to the Komen fund and never will!
Beware the pink ribbon on products you might not dream are supporting Komen.
When a movement gets to the point Komen has reached, they become a financial freight train, nearly impossible to stop.
One can very easily understand motivations, core beliefs, nature of supporters, foundational principles, when one observes how easily they align with PP, where no understandable link exists except that mythical do good statement of “women’s health”. Most folks with half a brain, know the translation of “women’s health” in polyspeak.
LLS
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