Posted on 11/06/2014 4:33:39 PM PST by Coleus
As a two-time breast-cancer survivor, Eve Sanchez Silver once supported the Susan G. Komen organization in her personal fight against a disease affecting hundreds of thousands of U.S. women each year. But when she found out while serving on the group’s National Hispanic/Latina Advisory Council that Komen was giving money to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s No. 1 abortion provider, she knew she had a problem.
“Here was a breast-health organization — a very life-affirming organization, from my perspective — funding an organization that essentially kills people. I couldn’t understand why they thought that was okay.” Sanchez Silver, a retired medical-research analyst from Red Bank, N.J., resigned from the advisory council in 2004 and now advises people to direct their donations for breast-cancer research somewhere other than Komen. She recommends giving to local organizations, provided they are not involved with Planned Parenthood and do not perform abortions.
However, her concerns with Komen go well beyond the Planned Parenthood connection. As someone who had two abortions before her diagnosis, Sanchez Silver is troubled by Komen’s denial of abortion as a cause of breast cancer.
On its website, Komen lists abortion, along with caffeine and cellphones, as among the factors that do not increase breast-cancer risk, saying, “Although there was some debate in the past about the link between abortion (also called induced abortion) and breast-cancer risk, research clearly shows no link between the two.” The position ignores research to the contrary, as does the organization’s stance that states current or recent use of oral contraceptives only slightly increases the risk of breast cancer.
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The Komen organization tends to lead people think they are the only cancer charity out there.
I’ve been to relay for life events locally. Both in support of my teen son for leukemia and as a former cancer patient myself.
Probably insensitive to say, but going to those events you get the feeling it was for breast cancer only. Few men and my son was the only child with cancer there.
You would think such events would work with local children’s hospitals to support the kids and their families.
I tend to give to organizations like St Jude’s children’s hospital. You can “see” where they put their money. Also given my experience with local children’s hospitals, they do need support.
It gets even better the farther south you go. Hubby and I saved up enough for the Del Mem Br toll about four years ago, and didn’t stop until we got to South Carolina.
I had looked forward to missing a couple things, but we found them here. There’s a guy from Philly that makes a great cheese steak at a sandwich shop downtown. He gets his bread delivered fresh from Philly. A burger joint opened a couple months ago, and they make custard every bit as good as the Pennsville Custard Stand.
If there was anything else in NJ that I liked, I’ve torgotten it. And I sure don’t miss low tide.
Personally, I have a lot of empathy for the women that did/do all that fundraising work for SGK so they could go on those 3 day walks. It just disappointed me to not be able to find out how all that emotion, sweat, tears, and personal fulfillment of the participants translated into substantive help for research for the cure.
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