Tell the board of Susan G. Komen: Don't throw Planned Parenthood under the bus!

[ny biker]

Just received this email from Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation/Army of Women:


Do Only Some Lives Matter?

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has announced it will no longer give grants to provide breast exams and mammograms through Planned Parenthood affiliates. Komen states that this has nothing to do with the “Right to Life” but rather the fact that Planned Parenthood is being investigated. According to the New York Times the investigation is by a conservative Republican who was urged to act by anti-abortion groups. This is sad. Investigation does not mean guilt. What happened to innocent until proven guilty?

Pro-choice should be just that. The woman gets to choose—to choose where the money she sweated through runs and walks to raise should be spent! Pro-life should mean not just the lives of babies, but also the lives of women! This is not an either or situation.

Patrick Hurd is the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia, a recipient of a 2010 grant from Komen. He is also the husband of a breast cancer survivor who is the veteran of several Komen fundraising races. As he told the Associated Press: “Cancer doesn’t care if you’re pro-choice, anti-choice, progressive, conservative, victims of cancer could care less about people’s politics.”

Rather than putting politics into the breast cancer movement, lets rise above the political divisions and work together. Let’s redirect all the money that will be spent on investigating Planned Parenthood into funding studies looking to find the cause and prevent the disease once and for all. Let’s redirect our anger to making mammograms unnecessary because we know how to prevent the disease. To learn more about our work and become a supporter, click here.



Susan Love, MD

President

Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation



P.S. The Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation (and its Army of Women Program) is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and is not affiliated in any way with Susan G. Komen for the Cure. To learn more about our work, click here www.dslrf.org

[Sky King]

I just have to say that each and every TE poster is amazing, I mean AMAZING. Look at our take action attitudes - we don't sit and *****, we immediately begin to share and brainstorm. I was a bit hesitant to do the original thread and now just spent ten minutes sharing these comments with the DH. I am going to contribute other organizations as I come across them. I am making a donation to Planned Parenthood today, in honor of my mother, who died of cancer. The Army of Women letter says it all!!

[Reesha]

[SadieKate]

I love that. May I post on my FB page? Is it your artwork?


Editing: Aha! The original with a request to link back to his/her page.
http://lianamaris.tumblr.com/

[ACG]

My eldest daughter uses planned parenthood because when she got laid off she couldn't afford her well woman exams. They even saw her one time when she had a really bad cold!

I've donated to SGK, I guess all my donations are going to PP now.

[Reesha]

I love that. May I post on my FB page? Is it your artwork?

It's not mine, it was shared over Facebook and I caught it!

[SadieKate]

I hoped you linked back to the artist's website per her request!

[Reesha]

Oh, I think it had been passed and passed and passed by the time I saw it. There was no link to the artist when I saw it on Facebook.

[ny biker]

I'm reading on twitter that NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg will match donations to Planned Parenthood up to $250,000 (out of his own resources, not the city's).

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.co...in-health-care

[OakLeaf]

I hoped you linked back to the artist's website per her request!

I didn't see any request either on the artwork or where I saw it on FB, and it's signed only with a first name, but this one appears to be her tumblr.

http://lianamaris.tumblr.com/post/16...ast-cancer-and

[spokewench]

I think that as many people who have donated to Planned Parenthood will also NOT participate in the Komen cure drives. I think they will be impacted. It is to bad for breast cancer research, but maybe it is time that a new organization steps up to take its place.