Susan G. Komen & Planned Parenthood?

towermonkey wrote: I have to wonder how much SGK will lose in donations because they apologized and reinstated their donations to planned parenthood. Many people were unaware of this and now will avoid donating money in that direction.

They apologized but if I read this right they have not reinstated the funding. Corporate smokescreen and mirrors...

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GRANT GATE

During all this, Susan G Komen pulled over 12 million dollars from research hospitals (funding breast cancer research) that were also involved in stem cell research:

Komen Also Stops Funding Embryonic Stem Cell Research Centers
by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 2/1/12 6:54 PM

In addition to stopping funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business, Komen for the Cure has also quietly stopped funding embryonic stem cell research centers, another concern for pro-life advocates.

As LifeNews reported last July, Karen Malec of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer spent time examining Komen’s 990 Forms for the IRS for 2010 and she found that Komen has active relationships with at least five research groups or educational facilities that engage in embryonic stem cell research, which requires the destruction of unborn children in their earliest days for stem cells that have yet to help any patients.

The return showed donations from Komen totaling
$3.75 million to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
$4.5 million to the University of Kansas Medical Center,
$1 million to the U.S. National Cancer Institute,
$1 million to the Society for Women’s Health Research,
$600,000 to Yale University.

All of them have embryonic stem cell research programs.

On November 30, 2011, Komen quietly added a new statement to its web site stating that it does not support embryonic stem cell research but supports the kinds that do not involve the destruction of human life.


http://www.lifenews.com/2012/02/01/kome ... h-centers/

Shouldn't they be allowed to decide who they grant money to? How is this "Grant Gate"?

it is a drastic change in less than 6 months. all of these funding decisions appear to be based upon politics, not women's health. btw, Did you know that Ari Fleischer was hired on last year?
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/05/a ... arenthood/

Interesting, it does look like SGK has moved to the right.

And even though SGK denies it it appears that the shift is due to Karen Handel's involvement.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/0 ... 55948.html

O my.....WHAT a surprise.....(not)........insidious,yes, not a surprise,tho.

I see once again my post didn't get in here.

More cynical perspective? Since religious right people do tend to donate more to charities than those on the left, SGK might have cut donations to lefty darling organizations to increase fundraising.
Republican politicians have earned a lot of donations by appealing to the pro-life wing of the party.

Not much comment because I was too busy signing petitions, writing to Komen Foundation personally to tell them that "my decision wasn't political either, but until they backed off I would not be supporting them any more..."

And other personal matters that made it impossible to login for a day or two...

In the meantime, here the reason behind the whole brouhaha:

Karen Handel, Susan G. Komen's Anti-Abortion VP, Drove Decision To Defund Planned Parenthood

Karen Handel, Komen's staunchly anti-abortion vice president for public policy, was the main force behind the decision to defund Planned Parenthood and the attempt to make that decision look nonpolitical.

"Karen Handel was the prime instigator of this effort, and she herself personally came up with investigation criteria," the source, who requested anonymity for professional reasons, told HuffPost. "She said, 'If we just say it's about investigations, we can defund Planned Parenthood and no one can blame us for being political.'"

Emails between Komen leadership on the day the Planned Parenthood decision was announced, which were reviewed by HuffPost under the condition they not be published, confirm the source's description of Handel's sole "authority" in crafting and implementing the Planned Parenthood policy.

Handel's strategy to cut off Planned Parenthood involved drafting new guidelines that would prevent Komen from funding any organization that was under investigation by local, state or federal authorities. Since Planned Parenthood is currently the target of a congressional inquiry prompted by House Republicans into the way it uses government funds, the family planning provider would have been immediately disqualified from receiving new Komen grants.

In light of the political damage and the abrupt reversal of the Planned Parenthood funding decision, pressure has mounted inside Komen for Handel to resign. "Everybody in the organization wishes she would do the right thing," the Komen insider said.

So far, Handel hasn't indicated an intention to step down. Nor does it appear that she's been formally asked to do so. But as a result of her efforts, Komen has been left reeling and its reputation as a top charity endangered.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/0 ... f=politics

I shall await the news of the expected resignation for politicizing something that shouldn't have been politicized...