UpDate Comment: Went looking to see if I could find any updates as to the donations totals this morning when I saw this was still up in the recommend list, all but one seem to still have the $400,000 24hr. total but one which is posted in the replies below by NYFM from WaPo which adds in the initial $250,000 gift from the family foundation of Dallas philanthropist Lee Fikes and his wife, Amy. But did find a number of interesting artilcles, those are at the bottom.
UpDate #3 comment: There was a Big Resignation at the Komen Foundation, the link to below! This blows up any statements that have been coming from that foundation as to it's reasoning by the board, as read in the article from the Atlantic journalist!
I'm not going to add much to this just now, actually not much commentary, hopefully the women here will add. Waiting for a CBS news report video to be posted that just aired.
Video and report below
Planned Parenthood raises $400,000 in 24 hours
02/01/12 - Supporters of Planned Parenthood have flooded the organization with enough donations to recoup almost all of the money that would have come from the Susan G. Komen foundation.
Planned Parenthood said it has raised $400,000 in online donations in the 24 hours since news broke that Komen would no longer fund cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood clinics. More than 6,000 people have donated, Planned Parenthood said.
The group announced yesterday a $250,000 donation to continue providing cancer screenings to low-income women. read more>>>
And keep in mind, planned parenthood doesn't ask what political party a women is registered in, and the wingnut females know that as they go there for All their rightful health choices!!
If you don't have it by now, sure most could find it, here's the Planned Parenthood site to Donate and more
CBS Video still not up but here's the jist of the report:
Susan G. Komen denies political motivation in Planned Parenthood decision
February 1, 2012 - Prominent breast cancer charity The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation is defending its recent decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood, arguing the move was "not about politics" in a statement it says is designed to "set the record straight."
"We are dismayed and extremely disappointed that actions we have taken to strengthen our granting process have been widely mischaracterized," the organization said Wednesday afternoon.
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"We are alarmed and saddened that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation appears to have succumbed to political pressure," Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said on Tuesday. "Our greatest desire is for Komen to reconsider this policy and recommit to the partnership on which so many women count."
Critics of the decision have pointed to the fact that Komen recently hired a vice president who had pushed for the defunding of Planned Parenthood during a gubernatorial run.
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Even so, the foundation has over the last 24 hours been subject to a number of attacks from women's health advocates, who saw the decision as part of an ongoing effort by conservative Republicans to take down Planned Parenthood.
In Wednesday remarks on the House floor, Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., a vocal advocate of reproductive rights, said she was "quite saddened" to hear about Komen's "political decision" to pull the funding.
The California Democrat said she has in the past been an avid and involved supporter of the breast cancer charity - "but not anymore."
"Their announcement yesterday that they are no longer going to fund any organization that is being investigated by a federal, state, or local body means that planned parenthood is no longer going to receive $600,000 a year," she said. "Now, ironically yesterday the Komen organization also announced and with great concern in a statement that the dismal rate of breast cancer screening with women who do not have insurance is something like 38.2 percent."
She accused Komen of veering into "political advocacy" and wondered that organization's stringent new standards prevented it from giving funding to groups even before congressional investigations had been completed. read more>>>
That last, along with a few other points, is why I'd like to grab the video!!
And the video report:
UpDate:
Howard Dean rips breast cancer charity for pulling its support of Planned Parenthood
2 Feb. 2012 - A charity synonymous with pink is generating red-hot debate.
One of the nation’s top breast cancer charities caved to the “far right” and showed a lack of courage by pulling funding for breast cancer prevention programs at Planned Parenthood, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean said Wednesday.
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That didn’t stop Vermonters — including Dean, a former Planned Parenthood board member, from weighing in on a controversy that sizzled around the nation and social media Wednesday.
“By caving in to pressure from the far right, the Komen Foundation has demonstrated that they lack courage,” Dean said in a statement distributed by Democracy for America and posted to Dean’s Facebook page. “Organizations which lack courage eventually fail. I support calls for the corporate donors to re-evaluate their support for Komen so that consumers aren’t forced to re-evaluate buying their products.”
Many people chimed in on the page with posts agreeing with Dean.
“I already donated extra to Planned Parenthood, and will NEVER donate ANYTHING ever again to Susan Komen,” wrote Joyce Strand.
“It’s shameful,” wrote Jim Snell. read more>>>
And this very well put truth editorial:
Editorial: Cancer is not ideological; Komen shouldn't be, either
February 2, 2012 - Susan G. Komen for the Cure has been helping women find, fight and, when possible, beat breast cancer. Toward those ends, it has contributed some $1.5 billion to support education, screening and treatment programs and advanced medical research.
Until very recently, the Komen organization has used the bounty of its prodigious fund-raising acumen to focus on improving the health of women and protecting them from needless suffering from breast cancer.
On Tuesday, however, Komen confirmed that its local chapters no longer may fund breast cancer screening and education programs offered in their communities by local affiliates of Planned Parenthood. The move eliminates about $700,000 worth of services provided each year in 19 Planned Parenthood regions. Komen did not fund any such services in St. Louis. Wednesday afternoon some affiliates were announcing that they had been granted expemtions from the new policy.
This profound mistake undermines the group's credibility and contradicts its mission. Its board should review and reverse the decision before women in these areas suffer needlessly from breast cancer that screening and education programs could have caught early.
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Breast cancer cells do not care about the income streams, social standing, political beliefs, ideological credos or geographic locations of the people whose tissues they attack or the people who care for them. Neither should Komen. read more>>>
I suspect the updated reports will be joining the ton of pages as this contribution report to Planned Parenthood went viral from last evening and through the night. Most of the search comebacks were some six and a few more hours old, the two above were really the only ones I caught coming in most recently.
UpDate #2:
Planned Parenthood Tries to Fill Void From Komen Cancer Grants
February 02, 2012, 7:25 AM EST - The Planned Parenthood Federation of America said it will start a new “emergency fund” for breast- cancer prevention programs to fill a gap created when Susan G. Komen for the Cure ended its grants for those services.
The fund will help 19 local Planned Parenthood health centers continue offering breast-cancer screenings, education and mammogram referrals in rural and underserved communities, the New York-based organization said in a statement. read more>>>
The statement by Planned Parenthood on the New Fund:
“Alarmed and Saddened” by Komen Foundation Succumbing to Political Pressure, Planned Parenthood Launches Fund for Breast Cancer Services
Planned Parenthood Federation of America today expressed deep disappointment in response to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation’s decision to stop funding breast cancer prevention, screenings and education at Planned Parenthood health centers. Anti-choice groups in America have repeatedly threatened the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation for partnering with Planned Parenthood to provide these lifesaving cancer screenings and news articles suggest that the Komen Foundation ultimately succumbed to these pressures. read more>>>
UpDate #3:
Top Susan G. Komen Official Resigned Over Planned Parenthood Cave-In
Feb 2 2012, 9:28 AM ET - An entirely avoidable, and deeply regrettable, controversy has been raging this week over the decision by the (formerly highly-esteemed) Susan G. Komen For the Cure foundation, the world's leading breast-cancer research advocacy group, to cut its support for Planned Parenthood, which used Komen dollars (about $600,000 annually) to pay for breast-screening exams for poor people. (The Atlantic's Nicholas Jackson has an excellent summary of the controversy so far.)
Komen, the marketing juggernaut that brought the world the ubiquitous pink ribbon campaign, says it cut-off Planned Parenthood because of a newly-adopted foundation rule prohibiting it from funding any group that is under formal investigation by a government body. (Planned Parenthood is being investigated by Rep. Cliff Stearns, an anti-abortion Florida Republican, who says he is trying to learn if the group spent public money to provide abortions.)
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The decision, made in December, caused an uproar inside Komen. Three sources told me that the organization's top public health official, Mollie Williams, resigned in protest immediately following the Komen board's decision to cut off Planned Parenthood. Williams, who served as the managing director of community health programs, was responsible for directing the distribution of $93 million in annual grants. Williams declined to comment when I reached her yesterday on whether she had resigned her position in protest, and she declined to speak about any other aspects of the controversy.
Bu John Hammarley, who until recently served as Komen's senior communications adviser and who was charged with managing the public relations aspects of Komen's Planned Parenthood grant, said that Williams believed she could not honorably serve in her position once Komen had caved to pressure from the anti-abortion right. "Mollie is one of the most highly-respected and ethical people inside the organization, and she felt she couldn't continue under these conditions," Hammarley said. "The Komen board of directors are very politically savvy folks, and I think over time they thought if they gave in to the very aggressive propaganda machine of the anti-abortion groups, that the issue would go away. It seemed very short-sighted to me." read more>>>
Maybe she'll now join PP and help with their new 'emergency fund' for breast screenings!