Susan G. Komen charity ends funding for Planned Parenthood | Update: They Chickened Out!

[FrankRep]

UPDATE:

Chickened out!

Komen drops plan to cut Planned Parenthood grants! (http://news.yahoo.com/komen-drops-plan-cut-planned-parenthood-grants-163643930.html)


Associated Press
Feb. 3, 2012


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Susan G. Komen charity ends funding for Planned Parenthood (http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/10361756-418/susan-g-komen-charity-ends-funding-for-planned-parenthood.html)

Sun Times
February 1, 2012

Relates Articles:

Pro-Life Conflict: Susan G Komen Cure Foundation Donating Money to Planned Parenthood (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/culture/family/4886-planned-parenthood-and-pink)

Susan G. Komen Foundation's Pink Bibles = Abortion Dollars? (http://thenewamerican.com/culture/family/10149-susan-g-komen-foundations-pink-bibles-abortion-dollars)

Pull the Pink: LifeWay Removes Susan G. Komen Bibles from Shelves (http://thenewamerican.com/culture/family/10207-pull-the-pink-lifeway-removes-susan-g-komen-bibles-from-shelves)

[Krugerrand]

I'm not even convinced that the SGK is worthy of money for their stated goal. It's despicable that they would divert money from their stated cause to backhandedly support abortion.

[angelatc]

I'm not even convinced that the SGK is worthy of money for their stated goal. It's despicable that they would divert money from their stated cause to backhandedly support abortion.

Having an abortion increases your risk of getting breast cancer.

[ghengis86]

Having an abortion increases your risk of getting breast cancer.

Did not know that. Link to source?

[thoughtomator]

I'm not even convinced that the SGK is worthy of money for their stated goal. It's despicable that they would divert money from their stated cause to backhandedly support abortion.

That's just scratching the surface with that crew.

They actually sue small charities, claiming a trademark on the word "Cure".

Whatever they are about, curing breast cancer is not it.

[Krugerrand]

That's just scratching the surface with that crew.

They actually sue small charities, claiming a trademark on the word "Cure".

Whatever they are about, curing breast cancer is not it.

One should always be suspicious of somebody who profits from others' tragedies. (That's not to imply automatic condemnation ... but just a cautious alert.)

[FrankRep]

Did not know that. Link to source?

Another Study Finds Link Between Abortion and Breast Cancer
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/health-care/4076-another-study-finds-link-between-abortion-and-breast-cancer

[Krugerrand]

Another Study Finds Link Between Abortion and Breast Cancer
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/health-care/4076-another-study-finds-link-between-abortion-and-breast-cancer

Those who stand to lose large amounts of money from such a link deny the possibility - and tend to discourage further investigation into the possibility.

[Krugerrand]

Position Reversal:
Komen drops plan to cut Planned Parenthood grants
http://news.yahoo.com/komen-drops-plan-cut-planned-parenthood-grants-163643930.html

It sounds to me like Komen has too much money if they're throwing it around to places like PP.

[Tod]

Komen Kaves. Too bad.
Alternative Breast Cancer Charities?

[MRoCkEd]

At least a lot of people have found out they fund abortion.

[Zippyjuan]

Another Study Finds Link Between Abortion and Breast Cancer
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/health-care/4076-another-study-finds-link-between-abortion-and-breast-cancer

The link is in dispute. http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/BreastCancer/MoreInformation/is-abortion-linked-to-breast-cancer

Many studies have looked at a possible link between abortions and an increased risk of breast cancer. But because of the nature of the topic, these studies have been hard to do. This may help explain why study findings vary.

Before 1973, induced abortions were illegal in much of the United States. So when researchers asked a woman about past pregnancies, she may not have felt safe saying that she had an illegal abortion. Even though abortion is now legal, it is still a very personal, private matter that many women do not like to talk about.

Studies have also shown that healthy women are less likely to report that they have had induced abortions. In contrast, women with breast cancer are more likely to accurately report their reproductive histories. This may be because they are searching their memories for anything that may be linked to the cancer.

The likelihood that women who have breast cancer will give a more complete account of their abortions than women who do not have breast cancer is an example of recall bias. Recall bias like this can sometimes cause studies to find links that may not exist.



In February 2003, the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) held a workshop of more than 100 of the world’s leading experts who study pregnancy and breast cancer risk. The experts reviewed human and animal studies that looked at the link between pregnancy and breast cancer risk, including studies of induced and spontaneous abortions. Some of their findings were:
• Breast cancer risk is increased for a short time after a full-term pregnancy (that is, a pregnancy that results in the birth of a living child).
• Induced abortion is not linked to an increase in breast cancer risk.
• Spontaneous abortion is not linked to an increase in breast cancer risk.

The level of scientific evidence for these findings was considered to be “well established” (the highest level).

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Committee on Gynecologic Practice also reviewed the available evidence in 2003 and again in 2009. ACOG published its most recent findings in June 2009. At that time, the Committee said, “Early studies of the relationship between prior induced abortion and breast cancer risk were methodologically flawed. More rigorous recent studies demonstrate no causal relationship between induced abortion and a subsequent increase in breast cancer risk.”

In 2004, the Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer, based out of Oxford University in England, put together the results from 53 separate studies done in 16 different countries. These studies included about 83,000 women with breast cancer. After combining and reviewing the results from these studies, the researchers concluded that “the totality of worldwide epidemiological evidence indicates that pregnancies ending as either spontaneous or induced abortions do not have adverse effects on women’s subsequent risk of developing breast cancer.” These experts did not find that abortions (either induced or spontaneous) cause a higher breast cancer risk.

[Zippyjuan]

LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-komen-abortion-20120202,0,4411738.story

In Komen fallout, abortion-breast cancer myth is resurrected

The long-debunked idea that abortions can contribute to breast cancer is reappearing amid the outpouring of comments this week on Susan G. Komen for the Cure's decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood breast-health programs.






The Komen foundation, however, is among the many organizations that uniquivocally say there is no link between abortions and breast cancer. Moreover, a consortium of scientists reviewed all of the evidence on the link in 2003 and determined there is no cause for concern.

[FrankRep]

Position Reversal:
Komen drops plan to cut Planned Parenthood grants
http://news.yahoo.com/komen-drops-plan-cut-planned-parenthood-grants-163643930.html

It sounds to me like Komen has too much money if they're throwing it around to places like PP.


Sent a thread update request.

[Krugerrand]

The link is in dispute. http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/BreastCancer/MoreInformation/is-abortion-linked-to-breast-cancer

I don't have a whole lot of confidence in the American Cancer Society.


Its effects are minimised in women who take pregnancy to full term but it remains at dangerous levels in those who have abortions.

There has been an 80 per cent increase in the rate of breast cancer since 1971, when in the wake of the Abortion Act, the number of abortions rose from 18,000 to nearly 200,000 a year.

Earlier this year, Dr Louise Brinton, a senior researcher with the U.S. National Cancer Institute who did not accept the link, reversed her position to say she was now convinced abortion increased the risk of breast cancer by about 40 per cent.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1288955/Abortion-triple-risk-breast-cancer.html#ixzz1lLxyDmgh

Sadly, it's hard to find any good information from a source that I find does not have an agenda to push.

[Krugerrand]

At least a lot of people have found out they fund abortion.

This has been the silver lining.

I can't help be think organizations such as these are a sham.

[Cowlesy]

Race for the Cure, more like Race for the Cash. The executives there rake it in.


$456,437 0.14% Hala G. Moddelmog Former President, CEO

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4509


I donate on a monthly basis to the Huntsman Cancer Institute.

[Zippyjuan]

Sadly, it's hard to find any good information from a source that I find does not have an agenda to push.

Agreed, but the quote did look at large samples- both in terms of studies from around the world and a large number of women so I am more inclined to agree with their conclusions.

The New American article cites only one study which looked at 300 women while the others looked at 53 studies and 83,000 women.