Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s founder and CEO is stepping down.

Nancy Brinker is joined on her fall on the sword by her president and two board members, all denying the Planned Parenthood debacle had anything to do with it.

It didn’t have to be this way. They could have stood strong in their decision to defund the United States’ largest abortion provider, but they couldn’t handle the heat.

Since then no one has been happy. While MSM consistently portrays Komen’s loss of revenue as a show of displeasure by abortion proponents, it is just as likely disappointed and previously unaware pro-lifers are now withholding donations.

I don’t feel one ounce of sympathy for Brinker. She, as a friend of Planned Parenthood, got Komen into its mess. In 1996 Planned Parenthood of North Texas gave her the Gertrude Shelburne Humanitarian Award, and as recently as 2011 Komen sat on that affiliate’s advisory council. (MSM never mentions this part of Brinker’s bio, because it doesn’t fit their portrayal of Brinker as a Republican hack.)

Brinker learned too late Planned Parenthood is as friendly as a scorpion, and her beloved organization paid dearly for her miscalculation. Ultimately, so did she.

Meanwhile, a Washington Post op ed on Brinker’s demise, “Nancy Brinker’s Komen shakeup too little and way too late,” had nary a contrary word to say about Planned Parenthood or its CEO while noting:

Brinker’s own reputation was on the line as her $417,000 salary and the top executive’s first-class air travel became part of the debate about whether the organization had strayed from its mission.

The link goes back to a February 2012 WashPo hit piece on Brinker, noting also that Komen “paid 50 top executive more than $100,000 each” in 2010.

Interesting, but not surprising, is the media’s complete disinterest in the salary of Planned Parenthood’s CEO, Cecile Richards, and her top execs.

Like Komen, PP is also a nonprofit, and ss Komen’s nemesis, PP would seem an obvious target for a compensation comparison. WashPo came so close but averted its eyes:

Komen operations have been under intense scrutiny since last week when a plan to stop giving grants to Planned Parenthood triggered blistering criticism of Komen’s leadership.

But no scrutiny of Planned Parenthood, the recipient of Komen’s grant. Wouldn’t it have made sense to find out whether PP was worthy? Liberal ideology, of course, says no. I doubt journalists even considered the thought.

Learning this information took me all of five minutes. According to Planned Parenthood’s 2010 IRS Form 990, Cecile Richards earned a total of $420,153 at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a few grand more than Brinker.

PPFA’s other top execs all made between $250-$325k, a couple hundred thousand more than Komen’s…

The February WashPo piece also noted:

Brinker, who also serves on Komen’s board of directors, traveled first class on airlines with the explicit permission of the board she chairs.

Just a hunch, but I don’t think Richards flies coach either.

China has joined Kenya’s family planning campaign by donating contraceptives worth Sh4 millions to the Kenyan government….

“We are handing the contraceptives to the ministry of health which will contribute towards achieving aspirations of Vision 2030,” [Minister for Planning Wycliffe Oparanya] said on receiving 5000 contraceptives….

[Oparanya] said that Kenya and China are cooperating in many fields of socio-economic development and that both countries are aware of the challenges of population and development.

“While China is grappling with a large and aging population, Kenya is struggling with a youth and rapidly growing population,” he said.

… [T]he government has set a target of having 52% of all women of reproductive age on contraceptives by the year 2015.

She said that current figure stands at 46% and is one of the factors behind Kenya’s high population growth.

… Catholic bishops of Kenya have strongly opposed [the] global initiative… [and] have reminded the Government of Kenya that many countries, which took such decisions, are now regretting with declining populations and nobody to consume or enjoy the much hyped development.

~ All Africa, August 2

[Photo via Bayer]

An ABC headline today reports, “Obama to Stoke ‘War on Women’ Debate in Colorado,” confirming the president’s “return to the gender politics of earlier in the cycle,” as reported by Politico a few days ago.

Obama is upping the ante, taking Georgetown Law School grad Sandra Fluke on the road with him on a two-day campaign trek through Colorado. Rush Limbaugh infamously called (then retracted) Fluke a “slut” for testifying in Congress she thought she should get free contraceptive through her Catholic university’s insurance plan.

Obama also continues to further tie himself to Planned Parenthood. In addition to a television ad released over the weekend touting the United States’ largest abortion chain, the Obama campaign released a web ad yesterday, discussed here. This ad marked Obama’s fourth pitch for Planned Parenthood, free contraceptives, and “family planning services” in a month.  (Also see “Troubled” and “Women’s Choices”.)

It is fascinating to watch Obama promote Planned Parenthood to the extent that he is. He could certainly push the pro-contraception/abortion agenda without mentioning the abortion giant.

I go back to the fact that Planned Parenthood must be scoring well in his internal polls.

Or it could be that Planned Parenthood isn’t scoring so well in the polls, and Obama needs to raise its favorables so any advertising it does on his behalf gets a better response. Synergy.

But Planned Parenthood sure is a risky dance partner.

[Photo via Politico]

by LauraLoo

By ChurchMilitant.TV, this video describes how Romania (no longer communist) is embracing a more subtle, yet evil ideology – namely the contraception/abortion mentality of Planned Parenthood.

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A web ad released by the Obama campaign yesterday features actress Elizabeth Banks touting both Planned Parenthood and Barack Obama.

Banks promotes Planned Parenthood as a provider of ”essential services for women all over this country.” What about abortion? Pfff.

“What is it, 95% of them don’t involve anything controversial?” asks Banks in the ad. “So for that little 5% that Mitt Romney decides he doesn’t agree with, he’s going to take away cancer screenings? What is he doing?”

Banks, of course, is referring to abortion when speaking of “that little 5%,” without, of course, saying the unpopular A-word.

But let’s stop at “that little 5%.” It really doesn’t matter whether the actual percentage of abortions Planned Parenthood commits comprises 3%, 5%, 10%, 12%, or even 36.7% of its business.

What matters are the numbers. And in 2009 “that little 5%” amounted to 329,445 children murdered by Planned Parenthood in 2010.

In total, since Planned Parenthood is on record for committing abortions since 1970, “that little 5%” amounts to over 5 MILLION children murdered by the United States’ largest abortion provider.

So just shut up with your airheaded politicking, Ms. Banks, whoever you are, and go back to acting. This isn’t about you regulating your periods, which no one wants to hear about either.

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This graphic pretty much sums up the past few years of Republican lawmaking.

~ Maya at Feministing, August 7

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This morning I read three crazy pro-choice tweets in a row. #1 was by NARAL. Next up is #2, by Planned Parenthood:

The link led to this photo…

I seriously wonder, what goes through the mind of these people?

What it is like to be the daughter of a mother who supports abortion? Does it really bring comfort to hear, “I chose you”? Does she have any dead siblings? Is she okay with that?

And same for the granddaughter. Does she realize she may have a dead brother or sister? What is it like to be hugged by two women who would have killed her had she been conceived at an inconvenient time? To be smiling with two women who advocate aborting their own children and grandchildren as simply a “choice”?

And the audacity of Planned Parenthood, which would gladly have taken money to kill that beautiful little girl, which can only display this photo in the first place as an affront to its primary business, abortion.

The whole lot of them are whacked.

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN and Kelli

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• Americans United for Life notes that FL Rep. Cliff Stearns is leading the congressional investigation of Planned Parenthood, despite major stalling on PP’s part. Stearns says that while PP has supplied him with 8,000 documents over the past 10 months, it is avoiding the ones requested. His goal is to put PP officials under oath to answer key questions of their audits, expenditures and safety aspects. Just as Planned Parenthood shows no regard for life, including that of the late Tonya Reaves of Chicago, the abortion giant also shows no regard for the law.
• At National Review Online, Michael New demolishes Harvard law professor I. Glenn Cohen’s published claims that fetal pain abortion laws are “flawed” and not based in science.
• American Life League’s Judie Brown reviews a book tracing President Obama’s community organizing days where he formed his ideals of “replacing loyalty to government [that] trumps even loyalty to God” as evidenced by the HHS mandate which “marginalizes religious freedom in favor of government ideology.”
• Down on the Pharm links to a post discussing Cuba’s open door invitation to the Catholic Church to help in ending the “plague of abortion.” 60% of the pregnancies in Cuba are aborted, and all on the government’s dime.

• Silent No More’s Kelly Clinger (pictured left) writes of her frustration with Congress’ failure to pass D.C.’s 20-week fetal pain abortion restriction:
  This is personal for me as well. The man who owns the abortion clinic I went to so many years ago has a clinic in DC. He does abortions up to 36 weeks (if not longer) with a suspended medical license. Thanks to the Democrats’ vote today, he can continue to do this.

  His website very clearly explains the process of injecting the baby’s heart with something to stop the heartbeat. Then a woman will labor to give birth to a dead baby, only they can’t guarantee the baby will be dead. He can’t do these abortions in Florida because of the laws. How kind of him since he also doesn’t have a valid medical license there.

• The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition refutes the charges leveled against them by pro-euthanasia group, Death With Dignity, following their debate in April.
• Ethika Politika compares pregnancy, childbirth and parenting trends in Sweden and the United States.
• Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life points out that the late Hubert Humphrey will be remembered and lauded by Democrats at a memorial but there is one aspect of his life that will be ignored – his opposition to abortion.
• Former pro-choice atheist Jay Watts of the Life Training Institute, shares some good talking points and the correct way to frame arguments for life.

• At Coming Home, Dr. Gerard Nadal notes the good that could result from more “accurate, sensitive, and inexpensive” early prenatal testing. While many pro-lifers believe the tests could result in search and destroy missions, Dr. Nadal says the “glass is half full”:

  
  First, letting parents know much earlier takes from the more eugenic Ob/Gyn’s the leverage that comes with the more traditional (and later) amniocentesis. Women often receive those tests results within days to a couple of weeks of the legal limit for having an abortion. It doesn’t give the woman time to emotionally digest the diagnosis, leaving her vulnerable to coercive pressure from genetic counselors, doctors and family.

  Next, the earlier blood tests allow more time for women to sit with their decision, and to seek out and receive alternative advice without the deadline for abortion looming large on the horizon. Contrary to arguments that say the abortion rate will skyrocket with such testing, as early term abortions are easier to have, one need only consider that research from Harvard University shows that 93% of all Ds babies diagnosed are being aborted; so there’s little margin for any skyrocketing of abortions.

  By itself, the technology is morally neutral. This technology can alert an Obstetrician to the need for more sonograms and the need for bringing onboard a perinatologist. Some Ds babies have anomalies that require immediate surgical intervention at birth. Early diagnostics can help to determine whether the birth should be vaginal or C-section, and whether or not a surgical team needs to be on standby.”

[Photos via razonesparaceer.com and lifeasahuman.com]