This has been an ongoing controversy and now that LiveAction has come out with another sting on Planned Parenthood, this is significant. The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation states in its March 2011 Statement on Planned Parenthood:
Early screening through mammograms and education is critical to end the suffering from this disease: 98 percent of women treated for early stage breast cancer, before it spreads, are alive five years later. The widespread use of mammography and heightened public awareness of breast cancer both contribute to these favorable statistics.
And while Komen Affiliates provide funds to pay for screening, education and treatment programs in dozens of communities, in some areas, the only place that poor, uninsured or under-insured women can receive these services are through programs run by Planned Parenthood. emphasis mine
More information provided on the PP homepage shows they clearly refer out for these mammography services:
Where Can I Get a Mammogram?
Ask your health care provider, health department, or staff at your local Planned Parenthood health center about where you can get a mammogram in your area.
Additionally, it appears that PP does provide breast exams only. However, the Komen memo links mammography, screenings, education, and treatment of breast cancer as their list of reasons it contributes to PP.
Now that Live Action has proved that PP does NOT provide mammography services to its clients, what is the money being used for, because clearly is not for mammography screenings? Education, treatment?
The Komen Foundation needs to come clean on specifically what those PP contributions are designated and why they really continue to support PP.
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Thanks for posting about Komen and PP
GregInFla (Diary) Wednesday, March 30th at 5:51PM EST (link)I think Komen better come up with a better story.
I read the Komen website statement, which says this:
“No conclusive link”? What they don’t realize is that abortion itself kills baby girls who would become women. And quite possibly the woman or women (and men too) who may be destined to cure breast cancer.
– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.
killing children...... Men , women.
volunteerstate (Diary) Wednesday, March 30th at 6:22PM EST (link)It is all for the children. Kill all of them …… get them youg, get them early…..in the womb. Planned Parenthood with our tax dollars. Is that a problem ? Will the Republican PRO-LIFE representatives we just elected SHOW a BACKBONE ?
I have been wondering where the Susan G Komen money is goung
nivlem (Diary) Wednesday, March 30th at 11:27PM EST (link)I do not mean to insinuate it is going to PPH. However, you cannot turn around in any store without a pink ribbon taking a portion of you expenditure. It truly
has gotten ridiculous.
Where is this enormous amount of money going to? I no longer give any money to them. I donate to my local groups that I know are accomplishing things other than marathons, football players wearing pink shoes and other idiotic mega expensive generating media programs.
Show me the money trail, and remake me into a believer. I have serious questions about this organizations fundraising and expenditures.
That's one way to prevent cancer.
Menlo (Diary) Thursday, March 31st at 12:02AM EST (link)Kill them before they get a chance to get it.
There certainly are some who will liken an unborn child to a tumor.
“The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.” -Felix Frankfurter
Sorry, not meant as reply. nt
Menlo (Diary) Thursday, March 31st at 12:02AM EST (link)“The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.” -Felix Frankfurter
nivlem, I totally agree with you
heartlander (Diary) Friday, April 1st at 2:49AM EST (link)Everybody is on the dang pink-ribbon bandwagon these days.
It reminds me a lot of the March of Dimes mania. March of Dimes seems to spend most of their money paying staffers who organize fancy fundraisers to raise money to pay staffers to organize fundraisers to raise money…… round and round and round she goes, and where she stops, nobody knows.
Kind of like the Democrat Party and the public sector unions!
Scams, scams and more scams.
PLUS…the March of Dimes was instrumental in the development of amniocentesis — and the promotion and mainstreaming of the practice of coercing pregnant women at younger and younger ages to get amnio done, and then, if a “defect” is found, aborting the baby. Well, that’s one way to get rid of birth defects…
I don’t give my money to ANY of these scoundrels!
“The still, small voice of God in every human soul is the greatest ally of the pro-life cause, and why it will ultimately prevail.”
–Donald R. McClarey
Look, I'm sorry...
rcatheart Sunday, April 3rd at 2:04PM EST (link)But with the amount of money that is ostensibly being shoveled toward breast cancer research from all of these private entities, every last federal agency (they get millions in gov’t grants/funding authorization/appropriations from: Labor, HHS, Dept of Energy, Dept of Defense, and who knows where else…)
If they can’t cure it with that amount of money…it probably can’t be cured. The other thing is, from a research perspective, people want cancer to be “cured” the way you cure an ear infection. You take some medicine for a few days, and it’s over and done. Cancer is crazy complicated, and even if we find “the cure” (which, I might suggest that a 98% survival rate for Stage I is darn near to “a cure”), it’s unlikely ever to be that simple or surefire, for any type of cancer.
In fact, as any cancer survivor can tell you, there’s really no such thing as a “cure.” All that can be said is, every that goes by that you don’t relapse, there are fewer and fewer cancer cells in your body. Will there ever be zero? Mmm…probably not.
Also, since I’m on a roll here…breast cancer “awareness”? NFL players now have to wear girly pink shoes because someone might not be “aware” of the fact that breast cancer exists?
Ok, rant over.
**Disclaimer: I’m a childhood cancer survivor. Most childhood cancers are having their research funded largely by lemonade stands and local golf tournaments. So yes, I’m a little bitter.