The “Susan G. Komen for the Cure,” an organization that fights breast cancer, announced that it was cutting off its grants to finance cancer screening and education programs run by Planned Parenthood. According to the New York Times, the cutoff will halt financing to 19 of Planned Parenthood’s 83 affiliates. The cutoff came after a campaign by anti-abortion and right-wing organizations to pressure the Komen group from contributing to Planned Parenthood.
The President of Planned Parenthood noted that her organization’s affiliates provided around 770,000 women with breast examinations and paid for mammograms and ultrasounds for those who needed and could not afford further diagnostic services. Her request for a meeting with Komen officials was turned down.
Will women die because of this decision? Of course they will. The anti-abortion forces will see this as a great victory. For the Susan G. Komen organization to knuckle under to such people betrays a lack of principle and compassion.
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