Expose’ puts lie to Komen-Planned Parenthood links

Over the past 7 years, the Susan G Komen “Race for the Cure” fund has given $4 million to Planned Barrenhood.  The stated reasons for these donations have been “breast cancer testing and treatment,” including mammograms and actual treatments like chemo and surgery.  The recent expose by LiveAction has shown that Planned Barrenhood does not have any facilities, anywhere, that can either perform mammograms or perform any kind of breast cancer treatment.  So, why, really, is Komen giving money to Planned Parenthood? 

In a March 2011 statement about Planned Parenthood, Komen claims the grants to the Planned Parenthood abortion business are meant to help women with breast health.

“Early screening through mammograms and education is critical to end the suffering from this disease: 98 percent of women treated for early stage breast cancer, before it spreads, are alive five years later. The widespread use of mammography and heightened public awareness of breast cancer both contribute to these favorable statistics,” Komen says. “And while Komen Affiliates provide funds to pay for screening, education and treatment programs in dozens of communities, in some areas, the only place that poor, uninsured or under-insured women can receive these services are through programs run by Planned Parenthood.”

With Planned Parenthood not offering mammograms for women, SusanAnne Hiller of the conservative website Big Journalism wonders why Komen is making the grants.

“Now that LiveAction has proved that Planned Parenthood does not provide mammography services to its clients, what is the money being used for, because it clearly is not for mammography screenings?” Hiller wonders. “Education, treatment? Are these questions we can expect our mainstream media propagandists to divulge in their articles? Or will the discovery stop with these citizen investigators and go unreported by the networks?”

Hiller also notes that Planned Parenthood only provides breast exams of the self-exam type women can do on their own or with a trusted friend or family member at home.

“However, the Komen memo links mammography, screenings, education, and treatment of breast cancer as their list of reasons it contributes to PP. It’s perpetuated all across the media without validation,” she says. “The Komen Foundation needs to come clean on specifically what those PP contributions are designated for and why they really continue to support Planned Parenthood.”

What Komen is, is just another left leaning (or falling) organization that observes all the left wing shibolleths, the most sacrosanct being that abortion is every woman’s right for any reason, at any time (and on your dime).  So, of course they support Planned Parenthood financially, even though there is growing evidence of abortion and hormonal contraception being major contributors to breast cancer rates in this country and around the world. It’s part of the dogma of the left, an infallible doctrine.  So all evidence that Komen may be undermining its own purported purpose – helping women avoid and/or overcome breast cancer – must be discounted as heresy counterfactual.