[net-gold] MEDICAL: DISEASES: CANCER: BREAST CANCER : ORGANIZATIONS : POLITICS: Uproar as Breast Cancer Group Ends Partnership With Planned Parenthood
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- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 00:31:17 -0500 (EST)
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MEDICAL: DISEASES: CANCER: BREAST CANCER :
ORGANIZATIONS :
POLITICS:
Uproar as Breast Cancer Group Ends Partnership With Planned Parenthood
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Uproar as Breast Cancer Group Ends Partnership With Planned Parenthood
By GARDINER HARRIS and PAM BELLUCK
Published: February 1, 2012
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/us/
uproar-as-komen-foundation-cuts-money-to-planned-parenthood.html
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Pink ribbons have for decades been a symbol of resolve and compassion in
the face of the deadly disease of breast cancer. Now, that nearly
ubiquitous icon has many women seeing red.
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When the nations largest breast cancer advocacy organization considered in
October cutting off most of its financial support to the nations largest
abortion provider, the breast cancer group was hoping for a quiet end to
an increasingly controversial partnership.
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Instead, the organization, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, is
now engulfed in a controversy that threatens to undermine one of the most
successful advocacy campaigns. The foundations decision to eliminate most
of its grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening caused a
cascade of criticism from prominent womens groups, politicians and public
health advocates and a similarly strong outpouring of support from
conservative women and religious groups that oppose abortion.
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Now, leaders of both the Komen foundation and Planned Parenthood are
accusing each other of bad faith and actions that undermine women. And two
organizations dedicated to detecting and curing breast cancer have found
themselves on opposite sides of the nations divisive debate over abortion.
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John D. Raffaelli, a Komen board member and Washington lobbyist, said
Wednesday that the decision to cut off money to 17 of the 19 Planned
Parenthood affiliates it had supported was made because of the fear that
an investigation of Planned Parenthood by Representative Cliff Stearns,
Republican of Florida, would damage Komens credibility with donors.
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Opinion: Susan G. Komens move against Planned Parenthood is callous
pro-life politics as usual
Planned Parenthood scrambling to make sure thousands dont lose basic
services.
By Jill Filipovic /
Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 10:29 PM
New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/opinion-susan-g-komen-
move-planned-parenthood-callous-pro-life-politics-usual-
article-1.1015702?localLinksEnabled=false
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The Komen foundations decision to pull $600,000 in annual grants for
cancer screenings and mammogram referrals from Planned Parenthood is
callous pro-life politics as usual.
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The breast cancer charitys move leaves Planned Parenthood scrambling to
make sure thousands of mostly low-income women who cant afford doctors
dont lose those basic services.
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The official excuse from Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation
headquarters is that Planned Parenthood is under congressional
investigation a probe that is widely acknowledged to be a cynical
political move.
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Whats really playing out here is hostility toward reproductive rights.
Komen has been under pressure for years to cut ties with Planned
Parenthood because it provides abortion services and its new vice
president ran for governor of Georgia on a platform of de-funding the
organization.
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But Planned Parenthood has long been more than just an abortion center.
Its cancer screenings have saved lives more than 3 million women and men
visited the nationwide group last year. The funding from Komen allowed for
170,000 breast exams and 6,400 mammogram referrals.
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It also provides more contraception services than any other organization
in the country, preventing more abortions than any of the supposedly
pro-life groups that oppose it. Planned Parenthood provides STD testing,
education and basic health care to millions of Americans who couldn't
otherwise afford it.
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Yet because they provide contraception and abortion, it is consistently
under fire.
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Planned Parenthood: Sen. Alex Padilla a Komen 'Pink Tie Guy' no more
By Amina Khan
Los Angeles Times
For the Booster Shots blog
February 1, 2012, 4:19 p.m.
http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-alex-padilla-pink-
tie-komen-planned-parenthood-breast-cancer-20120201,0,777800.story
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"Komen has placed its supporters in the untenable position of aligning
themselves with acquiescence to the agenda of the religious right, or
aligning themselves with healthcare and breast cancer organizations that
will not bow to such pressures," Padilla said in a statement. "The choice
is clear to me. I choose the latter."
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Other local groups have also condemned the decision. "The L.A. Gay &
Lesbian Center is calling on people everywhere to cease their
participation in Susan G. Komen fundraising events and transfer their
support to other worthy organizations that support survivors of breast
cancer or are working for a cure, or to give directly to Planned
Parenthood," center Chief Executive Lorri L. Jean said in a statement.
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