Komen Foundation Races for the Cuts Anna Clark
February 1, 2012
The breast-cancer awareness group caves to anti-choice groups and pulls its funds from Planned Parenthood.
. . . If the Komen foundation is sincere in its desire to see a world without breast cancer for all women, cutting off support for care in Planned Parenthood health centers is nonsensical. One in five American women will visit one of Planned Parenthood’s nearly 800 clinics at some point in her lifetime, typically for the preventive services that makes up more than 90 percent of its work. It is a primary care provider to low-income women in particular, who have few other places to go. Komen’s funding was specifically designed to make sure that money was not a reason why women didn’t get the breast cancer screenings that would be crucial in saving their lives. To see Komen decide that this was a purpose less worthwhile than appeasing the pressure of anti-abortion groups is to feel disappointment at their cowardice.
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