Sunday, February 5, 2012

Women Against Breast Cancer

So nearly as quickly as the Susan G. Komen Foundation cut Planned Parenthood from funding,
they restored them to funding.
We have to wonder if that seems to have happened because Planned Parenthood showed signs
of getting phenomenally increased support from all over the place in one 24 hour period.
In less than 72 hours, PP says they amassed 3 million dollars in funds, some of them very publicly donated.
At the same time, Susan G. went from the preeminent foundation of record for advancing all cause
against breast cancer, to a vehicle for restricting abortion rights.
I cannot for the life of me see that as a fair trade. They have blighted themselves for a foreseeable
future; and their cause before this was relatively pure.
Somehow they were a white, middle to upper class women's organization, helping women of all
backgrounds fight a scourge of a disease. Were they not getting enough research info from the
disease process in poor non-white women?
Why make Planned Parenthood sweep of function an issue? Some say the Tea Party, that party
which is not one, had undo influence.
I truly hope Planned Parenthood will now get increased private funding that would otherwise
have gone to Komen, in spite of the foundations quick reversal. Komen does have this right to be
narrow and obstructive. So many Americans refuse to draw a good line between the rights of the
born, functioning as individuals, and the rights of the unborn, functioning in a vessel.
And obviously, private funding for public cause is low-hanging fruit in present political climes.

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