Media ignores pro-life ire over Komen-Planned Parenthood bond
Yet another mainstream media outlet is crediting – or blaming, depending on one’s viewpoint – abortion supporters for the fundraising woes Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure has experienced in the aftermath of its realliance with Planned Parenthood, while ignoring any ire pro-life proponents may be demonstrating with their closed wallets.
From TribLive.com, June 23, which also perpetuates another falsehood:
The Komen Pittsburgh chapter raised more than $2.4 million in fiscal 2013, compared with nearly $3 million the prior year….
Affiliates across the country reported similar declines. The national group raised about $78 million less in gifts, sponsorships and race entry fees in 2013 than it did in 2012….
The national organization upset many donors by cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood, which performs mammograms, because of its involvement with abortion.
For undoubtedly not the last time, Planned Parenthood does not perform mammograms.
A Planned Parenthood zealot scorned…
On the topic of Komen’s drop in donations, prevailing liberal mainstream media wisdom has been that abortion proponents carry grudges a long, long time – forever maybe – which explains the decline.
So, the thinking goes, even after Komen sought to pacify abortion zealots by lifting its mere 3-day funding moratorium against Planned Parenthood, an organization that does nothing to stop breast cancer other than give the same breast exams women give themselves in the shower, the betrayal was fait accompli. Spiteful people, pro-choicers are.
This is the explanation that makes sense to the liberal media. It suits their agenda. Don’t mess with Planned Parenthood or abortion zealots.
Pro-life movement apparently blind to Komen-Planned Parenthood link?
It has apparently never occurred to them that pro-lifers might actually be the force behind the donation drop. This actually makes more sense and is more likely, since pro-lifers are the ones Komen ended up double-crossing.
There is no abortion organization pro-lifers detest more than Planned Parenthood, the United States’ largest abortion provider. Everyone knows it. We do not want one red pro-life cent to go to Planned Parenthood, even if through another source. The government almost ground to a halt over this fact. (Plus conservatives are more generous than liberals.) From The New Yorker, 2011:
The campaign against Planned Parenthood has been unrelenting….
“We would wake up and, every day, it would be about something else,” [Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile] Richards said. “Some days it was about abortion. Some days it was about race. Some days it was about me. Some days it was about kids.”
That was 2011. Things haven’t changed. Komen can try to woo abortion supporters back all they want. They’re wooing the wrong funding source. And the right funding source will never come back as long as Komen subsidizes its poisonous partner, Planned Parenthood.
[Bottom image via Texas Tribune]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Pro-lifers are generous givers. Many of us want to help see the end to breast cancer. There is a lot of pent-up demand that wants to give to Komen — but Komen sponsors Planned Parenthood and their contraception and abortion that increase breast cancer. So we can’t.
During the short week when Komen announced that they were not funding Planned Parenthood… their donations spiked with support from pro-lifers.
After billion-dollar Planned Parenthood caught little Susan G. Komen under their thumb — a great mass of the public realized that Komen was more than just breast cancer. And Planned Parenthood is unsavory.
It’s not the pro-lifers who quit donating to Komen. We never did donate to the abortion-supporting fundraiser. Nor was it the abortion supporters, who are essentially selfish, and only donate to causes that serve their self-interest.
Donations are down from the general public, who are responding adversely to the Planned Parenthood link.
I’m pretty sure that Komen realizes this now.
Besides its abortion connection, much of the funds Komen collects goes to salaries and other administrative costs. Relatively little goes to breast cancer research. which is another reason why I would never give them a penny.
If pro-aborts aren’t willing to pay their own way for contraception they’re certainly not going to give their money away as a donation.
It is a minority of Komen affiliates that have tarnished the name of the Komen Foundation by making grants to Planned Parenthood–the nation’s #1 killer of babies in the womb and arguably the #1 promoter of sexual promiscuity. Sadly the Komen affiliate in Waco (Central Texas Komen Race for the Cure) is one of the 20-25% of Komen affiliates that makes grants to Planned Parenthood. Pro-Life Waco will not give Central Texas Komen a pass on this outrageous entanglement. Planned Parenthood is sinking in Waco and Texas. Silly Komen is hanging on for the fall.
Susan Komen was having a cookie sale in front of a department store once. This woman with very little hair ( Im assuming she was a BC survivor ) asked me for a donation in exchange for a bag of cookies. I replied ” Nope sorry. I dont give to Komen because they give it back to PP which causes BC after abortions and passing out birth control.” She was nice about it and thanked me for my time. I got on with my day.