The Susan G. Komen Foundation did not reverse course as many have thought, suggested, or commented all over the Interwebs today.
Even Austin Ruse President of C-FAM is not sure and has issued this press release:
Statement by Austin Ruse on the Susan G. Komen Foundation
“Today the Susan G. Komen Foundation made an announcement that appears that they have reversed themselves on funding of Planned Parenthood. While I do not believe they have reversed themselves, it may turn out to be the case. We do not know.
What happened this week was nothing short of a Mafia shakedown campaign by Planned Parenthood against the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Planned Parenthood told the Komen Foundation “either give us money or we will destroy you.” They were aided and abetted in this hostage taking by the mainstream media.
At this point, pro-lifers should cease their support of the Susan G. Komen Foundation. We should wait and see what happens. We know there are five more Komen grants to Planned Parenthood in the pipeline. If any more come up, we will know we have lost and Planned Parenthood has won.
I do not regret the work I did over the past days on this issue, neither should any pro-lifer. I only regret we could not have done more to make Komen strong and able to fight off the thuggish abortion giant, Planned Parenthood.
What the week has shown is that Planned Parenthood, an organization that is under criminal investigation all over this country, will stop at nothing to maintain their stranglehold on organizations like the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
We should continue to pray for Nancy Brinker and all of her colleagues at the Susan G. Komen Foundation.”
The American Papist and Steven D. Greydanus agree with me on this one.
Look at it from Komen’s perspective, they’re taking a public relations hit by the punks and thugs from Planned Parenthood and their allies. It’s a war, a Culture War out there!
If you don’t believe me, try this email I received from the Daily Kos:
Tito Edwards, the Susan G. Komen foundation just released an “apology” for its decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood breast cancer prevention programs. However, Komen is still refusing to commit to future grants to Planned Parenthood, so nothing has really changed.
The right-wing crusade to shut down Planned Parenthood continues unabated. Not only are future grants from Komen not guaranteed, around the country, state governments controlled by Republicans are cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood as part of their war on women.
In order to make sure that Planned Parenthood can continue providing essential health care services for low-income women, including breast cancer screenings and prevention education, we have to give them our direct support.
Please, chip in $5 to Planned Parenthood.
Keep fighting,
Kaili Joy Gray, Daily Kos
We need to pray and fight like Macabbees right now.
2012 is a pivotal year for all of us in the Culture of Life. Let’s stand with the Susan G. Komen Foundation and see if they follow through when those grants expire to Planned Parenthood.
Post-script: We can now identify some of the members of the Culture of Death as they come out and openly defend Planned Parenthood like the scumbag Lance Armstrong.
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What no one’s picking up on is that Nancy Brinker isn’t just some ingenue who got taken advantage of by PP. Brinker has served on a Planned Parenthood board. She has accepted a personal award from PP. She has steered a fortune to PP, over many years. The woman is a savvy insider, not a well-meaning innocent who fell in with the wrong bunch. The Komen organization is fundamentally corrupt, infected with an anti-life ethos.
So, Lance Armstrong donates $100,000 to Planned Parenthood.
On the exact same-day, the Obama Justice Dept., without explanation, drops its doping case against Lance Armstrong:
http://espn.go.com/oly/conversations/_/id/7538482/federal-prosecutors-close-lance-armstrong-doping-case-press-charges
Yeah, nothing fishy about that at all.
Re your postscript, hopefully NRTL is watching and adding to the boycott list.
[…] February 3, 2012 by Mark Sheato Murder Inc’s Protection Racket.Sad.Some liberalism.Update: Komen may not have exactly reversed course, so now they appear to be alienating everybody. The Mafiosi at PP have demanded to extort what is, after all, free money from them, while they seem […]
Jay Anderson’s observation will sadly never find the light of day in main stream media.
Was’nt the woman herself, Susan G. Komen, Pro-Life? Susan G. Komen would have been ashamed to know that the foundation that bears her name is helping to support a business that provides abortions!
I guess the Susan G.Komen foundation found out what real political pressure is like.
Oh great. I once gave the LAF $100 out of my meager wallet. Cross him off the list too. What planet am I living on? Did the magnetic poles reverse and now we’re living in Bizarro World? All the donors are dogpiling on the one that doesn’t even DO mammograms!
A “mafia shakedown campaign by Planned Parenthood”? Really? We do ourselves no favors by finding hyperbole to delude ourselves. What it was a great wash of supporters from all over who reacted in knee-jerk opposition to what they saw as a hostile action.
Planned Parenthood may act in some ways we strongly oppose, but blind demonizing and making them out to be the organized kingpin of some vast conspiracy only makes us the fool, and tools of those who have their own agendas. Austin Ruse is doing us no favors. Let’s keep a level head.
enness: I once admired Lance Armstrong very much myself. Then he hooked up with left-wing whacko Sheryl Crowe (who lectured us on the necessary of using only 1 square of toliet tissue per bathroom visit – to save Gaia) , which was a tip-off to Lance’s politics and ideology.
I’m very happy I didn’t actually mail in a check to Komen the other day, although I considered doing so. Then I checked my bank balance. The few bucks I have to give to charity this month went to my parish and to the Scott Walker campaign (no, giving to a a political candidate isn’t charity, but it is a very good cause.)
When my mother died of cancer back in the ’80’s, I, and my siblings began giving to the American Cancer Society. I haven’t sent them a check in years. I will again, but only after I look into them to ensure they aren’t relying on fetal stem cell research, or are aligned with some nefarious organization.
If there is one lesson this whole nasty business has taught us it is: research your charities. I’ve been reading about the reaction to this on secular sites and there are plenty of pro-lifers who had given to SGK in good faith for years, without ever suspecting they were in league with PP. The only way I discovered the link was because of Catholic blogs.
Donna, ugh, I’d almost forgotten about that.
I donated, taking the B.F. Skinner approach, as I’ve been calling it — heaping rewards on the smallest step in the right direction. For the briefest second I considered a chargeback, but I feel like that would be appalling ettiquette and I can’t bring myself to do it. I will say that I certainly would respect them more if they returned the money.