Breaking News: Komen Apologizes; Pledges To Continue Planned Parenthood Grants

Planned Parenthood does a lot more than just abortions. Services provided at locations include contraceptives (birth control); emergency contraception; screening for breast, cervical and testicular cancers; pregnancy testing and pregnancy options counseling; testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases; comprehensive sexuality education, menopause treatments; vasectomies, tubal ligations, and, of course, abortion.

So how many abortions do they actually perform? As demonized as this organization is, you would think it ranks in the millions. Actually, here's a numbers breakdown from 2009:
4,009,549 contraceptive services (35% of total)
3,955,926 sexually transmitted disease services (35% of total)
1,830,811 cancer related services (16% of total)
1,178,369 pregnancy/prenatal/midlife services (10% of total)
332,278 abortion services (3% of total)
76,977 other services (1% of total)
In all, 11,383,900 services
They also annually conduct 1 million screenings for cervical cancer and 830,000 breast exams.

Just take a look at the Board of Directors for the Komen Foundation. Brinker maker over $460K and her son is also a board member. Brinker was married to Norman Brinker, founder of Brinker International which made Chili's a national brand, and daughter of Marvin Goodman who owned the largest shopping center in Peoria, that his grandson now runs. This is just another non-profit that profits the people at the top. So they are both independently wealthy, why take a salary? And do you think that these two would be anything other than RIPublicans? I do not know their political affiliation, but it would seem that they made a really political decision about PP and would never consider changing that if they did not get lambasted on social media and threatened with the loss of millions of dollars in support and countless bad posts even on their own message boards. I have so little faith in "non-profits", they seem to be just less bad than corporations. Administrative costs are out of control. If the non-profit has more than 20% admin costs, something is wrong.

Komen has nothing to apologize for.
The "war" the wing nut left waged on Komen says more negative things about the them than Komen. Komen cuts off funding for reasons that don't have anything to do with abortion yet in the liberal world, anything that infringes with killing children brings out the long knives. Breast cancer is a terrible disease for a woman to get. Komen should be put on a pedestal for the work it does yet it seems that only abortion rights should be supported.
Planned Parenthood and its supporters have made it plain that this is agenda driven, they really care nothing for women but are only about killing children. I have always said that the abortion issue should be between the mother, father and the doctor. I still think that is the case but I cannot support the organization of PP any longer. I will contact my elected reps to agitate for the cutting of funding to Planned Parenthood. I am completely disgusted with the lefts reaction and behavior toward Komen. It is the lowest form of behavior I have seen yet coming from them and that says a LOT. Taxpayer money should not go to that organization, not because of abortions but because of the scorched earth knee jerk reaction toward Komen which, and I reiterate, shows that the organization cares nothing for women medical issues. This dovetails very neatly with what I have observed after posting here for a while in that there is nothing worse than going against one of the lefts sacred cows, particularly a shibboleth such as abortion.

Dam has Broken, It's Too Late for KOMENby LOrion

So, it seems SGK is scrambling to reverse itself. But they can't it's too late.
"Susan G. Komen For The Cure has just reversed its decision to drop Planned Parenthood funding, after a week of national outrage that took the Texas-based cancer non-profit by surprise." KOMEN reverses and apologizes
And as noted in this KOS piece from yesterday, KOMEN supporters jump ship, even before this decision "people have been uncomfortable with SGK's marketing, SUPPRESSION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (my cap), and pushing small groups around over copyright and trademark. This Planned Parenthood thing has just finally pushed them over the edge."
As a physician, I am very concerned. They made a medically unethical decision without hesitating. Just how many others have they made over the years? If they allowed one big funder to tell them to do this, what pressure have they bowed too previously from Big for-profit Health? You know the Right Wing/Big Health mantra is 'die quick, die cheap'...and that most especially goes for women.
I am about to propose to those who ask, that any woman getting treated for breast cancer discuss with her doctor if he uses any KOMEN funded research, asks why...and then asks to be treated by another standard!

Actually, I guess I have just done that, for any woman or family member who reads this. I am serious, this was a very medically unethical decision that they didn't even notice it as such.

A woman's right to choose will be under attack for the rest of time. The reasoning is froth with contradiction. Life is uncertain.

At least it is mostly undesirables that are getting the abortions.

It was just a logical decision by the Komen Foundation because they were about to get their brand culturally raped by the left wing hate machine. Planned Parenthood doesn't do mammograms. But they blackmail money out of the Komen Foundation by claiming they are a "women's health organization". The banshees of the left went into full thundercunt mode on cue from their puppetmasters at the usual left wing sites.

If the Komen Foundation didn't relent and cough up the money originally donated for preventing breast cancer to be used by Planned Parenthood for abortions then the left would pull out all the stops and the Komen Foundation would be vilified in the news and online. There would be snarky, shitty comments about the Komen Foundation on every talk show, sitcom and Law and Order spinoff episode and The View and The Bill "Penis Nose" Mahar Show and Comedy Central, etc. Current corporate sponsors concerned about their brand integrity would dump Komen. This includes the NFL, the NBA, MLB, NCAA, Starbucks, etc.

This was a classic left wing shake down. You pay money to someone who'll use it for something completely different than what you donated it for, or they'll send their legions of conformist shitbags out there to trash your organization all over hell and gone.

Fuck you Planned Parenthood. You're just a baby killing factory; nothing more.

hoosierdaddy below is right, READ and read again. They are replacing thier long term standing funding with the promise to "consider" limited scope funding.

THIS IS BULLSHIT. READ CLOSELY. More here: http://current.com/community/93647578_komen-foundation-pretends-to-change-its-mi...

While I appreciate the apology and Komen's ability to step back from a very bad decision, Planned Parenthood has a proven track record for making a difference in the lives of women, and Komen will have to prove itself in my book. What they did was so obviously politically motivated that it will be a long, long time before I ever again donate to Komen, or support them in any way. My support will be with Planned Parenthood, an organization that does not discriminate based upon political or religious persuasion.

This is an interesting year. So far public outcry has killed SOPA/PIPA and now made Komen change their minds. It's awesome when the public actually cares.

I still don't trust Komen...people should start making donations directly to Planned Parenthood instead.

Too late

There are lots and lots of great charities out there that DON'T play politics with breast cancer. Give to them from now on.

Bill Gates has a lot money why these people are giving him more money ?

Oui et Non, C'est tout

I'm sure they hoped their announcement on Tuesday would get lost in the Floriday primary hoopla. A cold day in Hell would have been a better choice.

komen your apology is not accepted. I will be sending my donation directly to planned parenthood.

Too late. I lost my 3d wife to cancer, my present wife is a cancer survivor and I have just been diagnosed with lung cancer. I just sent Planned Parenthood a check for $500 and will never support the Komen Foundation again. I will continue to support Planned Parenthood.

I will still not support them ever again. They only apologized because they saw a major impact on their gravy train. The President of National Organization for Women said that because of this very political decision by the SKC that she predicted that this organization would not be around in three years. I say let's make it happen. What have they really done to find a cure for breast cancer? Just making people aware of breast cancer is not enough.

Awwww, Susan G Komen got hit in the pocket book and now want to get the cash flow back - such nice, wonderful people

Power to the people.

Keep it up everyone.

Clff Stearns is the old white guy who is conducting the HUAC McCarthy era style "investigation" of Planned Parenthood. The forced reversal of the decision by Komen's board to defund Planned Parenthood is a good sign that the reign of the Tea Party tyrants will come to an end in 2012.

Clifford Bundy "Cliff" Stearns, Sr. (born April 16, 1941) is the U.S. Representative for Florida's 6th congressional district, serving since 1989. He is a member of the Republican Party.

As Chairman of the Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Cliff Stearns conducted the first-ever oversight on taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider. National Public Radio reported, "Planned Parenthood is the nation's largest single provider of abortions, yet it gets millions of dollars in federal funding with which to provide other services." .[15]

The heat needs to remain on then demand transparency. Demand an investigation of The Komen foundation lets see what atrocities happen behind the scenes.

I wouldn't rest easy just because they reversed their decision. The wacko fringe on the right really, really, really, really wants to impose its way on the rest of us and they won't be deterred by public opinion. They will likely try to find another way to attack PP.

This whole event is just the kind of crap the Religious right has been doing for far too long. STOP IT you idiots before your ABORTED!

Good on the board members who resigned to protest this attempted political coup in a public health organization.
To really save the Koman Foundation long term harm the Komen board members who supported the original move to attack Planned Parenthood services and funding should resign.

Yayyyy! Good guys win!

Not good enough for me. That was a political hit on the people, saying I give when the nation and it's own contributors turned on Komen for being a compromised organization. I don't trust them anymore, and nobody should,
I do not accept the apology. To hell with them.

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.

It is my hope that the idiot repTEAtard congressmen that started this will now finally STFU and realize they are on the WRONG side of history if they pursue this in any way!

Pwr 2 all women! Go all Lorena Bobbitt on repTEAtard legislators!

Komen Apologizes; Pledges To Continue Planned Parenthood Grants