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I'd add that we should obey Karen Handel's campaign slogan when she ran for Georgia governor: "Bring It On!"
And send Handel an e-mail telling her what we think of Komen now:
Khandel@komenadvocacy.org
Before Handel was hired as Komen's vp of public policy, she was on record as opposing PP at all costs.
Here's a quote from her July 2010 campaign literature:
"First, let me be clear, since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood. During my time as Chairman of Fulton County, there were federal and state pass-through grants that were awarded to Planned Parenthood for breast and cervical cancer screening, as well as a Healthy Babies Initiative. Since grants like these are from the state I’ll eliminate them as your next Governor."
How could Komen -- a foundation whose goal is the betterment of women's health -- possibly hire a woman who pledges to reduce health care not just for women but for babies?
Incredible! Let her know what you think. Bring It On!
http://ww5.komen.org/CorporatePartners.a…
You know what to do.
More donations to Planned Parenthood!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/02…
http://ww5.komen.org/CorporatePartners.a…
You know what to do.
jenersen@king5.com
@jeanenersen
KING 5 Television
333 Dexter Ave. N
Seattle, WA 98109
Phone: 206-448-5555
(She has a real name, of course. It isn't actually a huge secret - she announced it when she got some paid work blogging at a site that uses authors' real names - but she doesn't often use it at either Balloon Juice or her own blog.)
But, I'm actually hoping that this turns into more than a PR disaster for Komen (and hopefully increased awareness of PP). I hope it results in a shitstorm of media inquiry into where it is all those $$ to Komen actually go.
Even without the PP scandal, Komen is probably not an organization that people should be giving $$ to if they care about efficient use of philanthropic funds.
-- left a message at Komen expressing my...disapproval.
-- donated fifty bucks to PP
-- emailed American Airlines that I booked a flight with US Airways because of AA's support of Komen (incredible scandal timing re that)
-- emailed New Balance and Walgreens that I won't spend money at companies which shunt part of their proceeds to charities hijacked by neo-Confederate authoritians
Free breast exams still available. Fret not.
http://www.theonion.com/video/12yearold-…
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?st…
For those who don't wanna go through the tl:dr of that, I was told I was evil, that I rub dead fetuses on my face, that I have worse things than cancer to worry about & that I've murdered innocent souls.
Have the conversation. It should be had. For many people, PP is their primary source of care. Just know it's a can of worms.
I too am working my way through that list of donors and writing to them, and I think I'm going to print up a handful of flyers for the Gala detailing shortly and succinctly what's wrong with Komen. With references. I want to make the pretty people in their tuxedos and ball gowns sweat a little on their way into the Olympic. I've always been a little suspicious of people who only give to charity if there's a fancy party with expensive food and entertainment in exchange.
I've emailed and tweeted the Komen Foundation numerous times now regarding my disgust at their political bullshit and backpedaling, and sent a donation to PP in their honor.
Planned Parenthood was the only place I could get ANY medical care in Utah when I had no insurance and very little money. When I showed up to a yearly exam with a horrible cough, the nurse practitioner also listened to my lungs and told me I had pneumonia and needed antibiotics before I ended up in the hospital. I told her I had no insurance, and they wrote me a prescription for antibiotics as well as my BC pills. Not long after that, one of my professors died from an untreated case of pneumonia. I guess I could say I probably owe PP my life.
This time we're ready; now we're responding forcefully to this stab-in-the-back assassination attempt on a progressive institution.
http://www.facebook.com/events/178502995…
@aw, yes, the old fetus rubbing on the face comments......if I had a nickle for every time one of my wacko relatives said to me......well, I wouldn't need to go to Planned Parenthood. Way to hang in there.
http://www.nfb.ca/playlists/pink_ribbons…
This not a "Women's issue". Women and girls are not a special interest group. We are more than 50% of the population. This attack on PP should be a huge concern for men as well.
ERA! ERA! And QUIT Legislating my body.
Bunch of biggies making 3x - 5x that!
OINK!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/80135605/Komen…
You heard it here first.
Felt pretty darn good!
@27: Thanks for the update. That is good news, but I'm still glad I never gave any money to Komen. Go, Planned Parenthood!!!
Hey--can we also snip off the "pink' junk hanging between the legs of all these ultra-WRONG-wing, violently anti-abortionist, women-hating whackos? THAT idea makes me feel pretty darn good!
Penn State is also under investigation and just got some Komen money. hmmm.
I have bigger hopes that now people understand the game.
1. "Until then, no one with any sense should give Komen one red cent." Yes, stifling an NPO's funding is going to encourage them to continue to give away funds rather than keep them in house for research, their primary objective.
2. "US Senator Parry Murray". Come on. You are a professional. Supposedly.
Even if the overt attack on PP didn't work (for now), the attack on Komen did. In addition, as "The Stranger's" local investigations indicate, this attack has terrorized all other women's health groups. None of them want to speak publically against what is happening.
In addition to watching Komen's actions, I'd say we need to watch who runs other groups that now support PP or are involved in all women's health care.
And I had to laugh out at loud when Patty Murray said that "We will remain vigilant that politics does not come into their decisions." Coming from a died-in-the-wool politician borders on the absurd. The money grubbing abortionists are using plenty of politics to extract their money by coercion. That money belongs to the Komen foundation, and was given freely as a gift, who are you to say how they now decide to spend it?!
1) PP doesn't actually provide breast cancer screening. The make referrals to those who do. Komen would be well within their mission to drop the non-provider of services from their grant roster.
2) The "only 3% of PP services are abortions" is based on the fraction of procedures. Which means an abortion counts as one procedure and taking the patients temperature counts as another. By dollars, from their annual statements, abortions account for between 10-30% of their billion-dollar business.
3) Money is fungible. Federal dollars or private dollars all fund the base organization. That organization provides 20% of the abortions in the country. While I don't think abortion should be outlawed, it is not a pleasant thing. Every dollar not spent on administrative overhead can be directed to wherever necessary.
Bonus point - Komen wasn't going to take the PP grant money and set fire to it. That money would have gone to other organizations to fight breast cancer. PP supporters have behaved shamefully.
The fact is, the money is Komen's to spend as they wish.
The plus in all of this is DONATIONS, I work at PP and good grief we have had a LOT of peole come in and give what they can. Just had an adorable older man come in and give a hundred dollar check, apolgizing for not being able to more due to being on social security. He assured me we were in his will. It was the day of the reversal and I wanted to make sure he knew that and he said oh yes I know, I just hate those bastards and their politics. I woulda kissed him were I not working behind three inches of bulletproof glass. Oh yeah and he asked if I could make sure it was allocated to the abortion part of our budget. Sweet!
So please just donate what you can, if you come in and do it, we have some nice swag for ten dollar donations, the cool pink shirts, the out of style pink bracelets (people love em, not sure why) And of course always free condoms, keith herring (sp?) artsy ones now!
I just love that the whole thing turned a major negative into a plus. We work there for not much more than minimum wage, you have to want to do it for reasons other than money, and you feel good at the end of the day. Well sometimes not so good, there are some rough times but at least you can feel like you tried to help, big goddamn difference from my corporate jobs.
I always had my suspicions of the Komen "machine". Didn't even know about the pink handguns and pink ammo!, tho.
Coincidentally there are out right now some devastating documentaries about the whole pinkness thing. {Also read Barbara Ehrenreich.} As someone said, I don't see the Komen foundation surviving all this, which is shining a needful spotlight on what is behind all the glitter and hype, the smoke-and-mirrors to impress and mislead the Public.
However, as that rare bird, a 2nd-Amendment Liberal, I must say the pink gun looks pretty cool. I heard it's not a very good gun though.
Preferably one-way to a hot desert island somewhere infested with fatally poisonous arachnids, scorpions, and rats.
let's see the same coverage for the obozo in chief caving to the catholics today..
PP's is how many times larger than Komen?
The paltrey $20 Mil. barely covers the PP's executive staffs wages and benefits.
Just like when AT&T cut PP funding, way back when, PP comes out of the gates with the hate. Mostly because they are afraid others will use this as an excuse to bail.
Hopefuul, they WILL crush Komen. Just because they are so annoying.
Pink Freaking Beer Bottles? And other pink rebranding ad nauseum, this has to stop.
More humans die each and every year from prostate cancer. How many cents have any of you tossed their way?