Let’s Definitely Celebrate Girl Gamers — Just Not With Susan G. Komen, Right Now

Amen! I’m a fan of the American Cancer Society. Not every woman is going to have breast cancer, but a lot of us are going to have carious other kinds of cancer, and they’re approach serves the greatest part of the population.

Who better for Evil Controllers to support than an Evil Charity? :-P 

The political left is convinced it was a political decision, yet they insisted all along it wasn’t, at least not in the way you mean.  Planned Parenthood is under a cloud, similar to Acorn, and that ‘cloud’ may have been part of the reason.  If they pulled funding out of fear of being involved in a controversy they failed, and became the controversy.  If they pulled the funding because they don’t like abortion then you are correct, and they are hypocrites for funding them in the first place.   While they mishandled the media storm, I think the political attacks against them are purely political and unjust.

While they mishandled the media storm, I think the political attacks against them are purely political and unjust.

You’re either uninformed or misinformed.  There are two women executives Karen Handel and Nancy Brinker who are both staunchly anti-choice.  Karen Handel ran for Governor of Georgia on an anti-choice platform and has never bothered to hide her conservative politics despite taking on a job where a lack of politics is important.  Furthermore, most of the folks on the Komen board are wealthy conservatives from Texas who have donated quite a bit of money to conservative political groups over the past while.  Komen is, in fact, run by a very political group of people, which it shouldn’t be  According to internal documents and numerous anonymous folks from inside the foundation, Karen Handel, from the moment she was hired, has been on a political crusade to change Komen’s rules for funding in such a way as to target PP and only PP, despite strong objections from folks working for Komen who have medical degrees and a better understanding of women’s healthcare and breast cancer. 
This mess was entirely Komen’s responsibility, and thank the gods they did it too.  It’s brought to light a whole bunch of problems with Komen, and how they use the money donated to them (lots and lots of 200k+ salaries, very little funding for *preventative* research) and just what sort of corporations they work closely with.

Planned Parenthood is under the cloud of faithfully providing reproductive services to women since 1921.  Just because conservatives are trying to restart decades-old battles about women’s reproductive rights, that doesn’t mean Planned Parenthood is under a cloud, does it?  Is Planned Parenthood doing something different today than they were a year ago that would necessitate their defunding? Or is there just more attention being thrown at them because of the Republican primary?  And are the attacks being thrown at the Komen people really worse than what pro-lifers have to say about Planned Parenthood?  I would doubt it.

 To
be fair, they probably did not plan an push through this partnership in
the last two weeks or even month. In all likelihood, it was in the
works for quite some time and it would have been difficult, if not
contractually impossible, to pull out after the Planned Parenthood
controversy. Of course, I don’t know for sure, so if that’s not the
case, then yeah, major fail, Evil Controllers.

The charity doesn’t actually funnel the money to political causes though right? Its still a charity that helps people?

Pulling funding is the opposite of helping people. Why was it pulled? Political reasons.

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The funding wasn’t EVER “pulled” ….existing grants were never in jeopardy & remained funded including those of Planned Parenthood. That was never an issue, though it’s been repeated regularly. What became an issue was newly revised language in grant criteria, which among other changes, made organizations under investigation ineligible. So, Planned Parenthood became ineligible to apply for new grants, because they were under federal investigation.  Remember too, that the initial “Announcement” wasn’t made by Komen on January 31st, though it’s also been stated repeatedly that it was. The announcement was made by Planned Parenthood, weeks after notification by SGK and with plenty of time to mount a political campaign. Words like “defunded & political decision” were used by the media & Planned Parenthood from the initial announcement onward. Linking the decision to politics and an anti abortion issue was a calculated and very effective move by Planned Parenthood, who subsequently raised several million dollars.
  Susan G. Komen has strongly supported PP & the breast health programs provided by them, throughout the years, despite years of ongoing pressure from Pro-Life groups. 
 Another key factor to keep in mind, funding decisions are made on a LOCAL level and determined in part by the results of a Community Profile, conducted every 2 years by local SGK affiliates. Based on these results, funding is prioritized and a Request for Applications is sent to local organizations that might fill identified gaps in service.  A volunteer Grants Committee then reviews funding priorities, based on information in the Community Profile and reviews proposals based on these priorities, sustainability, capacity etc, & recommending a slate of grants to the LOCAL Board of Directors of SGK.
What’s MOST unfortunate is that because SGK failed to foresee the media campaign and subsequent backlash, they are now in the position of explaining ad nauseum, rather than remaining focused on the mission of providing uninsured and underinsured women breast health programs.  

I’m flattered, but I didn’t read most of that. I’ve heard this move justified and explained every-which-way. There’s nothing you could say to me that would make me side with Komen on this. And you being pro-life had nothing to do with this incredibly long reply, I bet? Yes, I know. Heard it before.

To your comment below, no need to be flattered…I was clarifying your incorrect statement with factual information. No funding was pulled. I had little doubt that you would be swayed by my reply..it wasn’t neccesarily for your benefit. Your other assumption that I’m pro-life is also inaccurate…..for the record.   

The reason they gave for pulling from PP should have had them pulling funding from Penn State due to it being investigated because of the ongoing decades of sexual abuse against minors… Penn State has not had its funding pulled (or even mention of it).  PP was targeted and was the only group the rule was applied to.

Komen never PULLED funding from PP. The grants that were in place remained funded. They became ineligible to apply for NEW grants, until that language was clarified. Penn State was given a multiple year grant, before the recent controversy involving child molestation allegations.