The New York Times 02/01/12
“Cancer Group Halts Financing to Planned Parenthood”
In a decision that is inflaming passions on both sides of the abortion debate, the world’s largest breast cancer organization, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is cutting off its financing of breast cancer screening and education programs run by Planned Parenthood affiliates.
The move will halt financing to 19 of Planned Parenthood’s 83 affiliates which received nearly $700,000 from the Komen foundation last year and have been receiving similar grants since at least 2005.
A spokeswoman for the Komen foundation, Leslie Aun, told the Associated Press that the main rule adopted by Komen that prohibits grants to organizations being investigated by local, states or federal authorities. Aun continued that Planned Parenthood was therefore disqualified from financing therefore disqualified from financing because of an inquiry being conducted by Rep Cliff Stearns (R-FL), who is looking at how Planned Parenthood spends and report its money.
Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, said that the decision “came so abruptly n the face of a long, good, working relationship with Komen” and that the change in financing criteria “was written specifically to address the political pressure that they’ve been under.”
Commons Sense Review
If you are an organization that is controversial, would it be smart to secure fund with a person or organization similar to you that with stand the heat from those who don’t agree…. So what I see is that Planned Parenthood has no business sense but thinks that due to Roe v. Wade they must exist…. Good luck with kind of thinking …
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