I usually don’t endorse cases of hacking, but in this instance:     CONGRATULATIONS!    

Good work hackers.

No one should give them another dime!!

It’s a private non-profit organization that can do whatever the hell it wants. If you don’t like it, don’t give them money. Simple enough. Komen will still be a wonderful organization doing a lot of good for women without PP.

PP does not have a monopoly on knowing what is good for women.

You reap what you sow — the Komen folks may rue their decision to make breast cancer screenings a political issue.

I find it hard to believe that Komen would do something as stupid to defund Planned Parenthood. The Komen organization has always been an overrated, money grubbing group. This was amplified recently by their doing a joint promotion with McDonalds. Studies have been done showing that women who eat junk food containing high levels of saturated fat have at least twice the chance of contracting breast cancer and more studies will probably show even more damage from McDonalds foods. Planned Parenthood, on the other hand has done an enormous job in saving lives by givng women information, help and treatment for many diseases, including breast cancer.Giving abortion information is a very small part of what Planned Parenthood does. I’m embarrassed to admit that in the past I’ve encouraged my daughters to support the Komen organization! Hopefully, the Komen organization will fire their entire leadership and try to undo the damage they’ve done.

Funny keep it up. Susan G. Komen sucks.

 I do know exactly when it happened. I was actually on their site “Contact Us” and sending them an email telling them my donations would now go to PP instead. When I hit send.. I knew it had been hacked as I couldn’t go to the site via IE, I had been using Firefox. I checked to just make sure that what I experienced was a site being hacked at the time…Way to go hackers. I think Komen got the point from them on behalf of those that support Breast Cancer screenings.

Yep that is the great thing about the free market. If we disagree with their actions we can choose to boycott them, hack their websites and make them out to the be the villians they are. These people are such idiots that cutting off funding for PP only increases abortions because so much of PP is family planning and the council of expecting mothers. These radical Pro Life groups are so rabid in their advocation of denying the rights of women that they don’t even realize that these moves increase abortions not decrease them. Disgusting all around.

Liberals these days are such militant activists! If you don’t agree with them or succumb to what they want you to do or how they want you to act, they unleash Hell on you!

This is indicative not only of the pro-choice movement, but also the liberal atheist movement and the LGBT rights movement. Liberals despise free speech if it doesn’t agree with their ideology. 

You see these anti-abortion groups as “rabid”. And they see PP as “rabid”. The country is split pretty much even on being self-described as “pro-life” and “pro-choice”.
Check out this Gallup poll: http://www.gallup.com/poll/118399/More-Americans-Pro-Life-Than-Pro-Choice-First-Time.aspx

When it comes to eliminating a pregnancy for convenience or due it simply being unplanned, most people disagree with abortion, and that is the case in the vast majority of them.

Both sides need to acknowledge that the other side has some valid reasoning for their logic. There are “rabid” pro-choicers who would have abortions up until 9 months as well as those who would never ever ever allow it. As with everything, both sides have their radicals, but think twice before you start labeling half the country as “rabid”.

Love the hacked image.

Does that mean someone shooting an abortion provider or bombing an abortion clinic represents the entire pro-life movement and all conservative Christians?

As a die-hard militant activist, I’m taking my hard-earned money and walking away from Komen.

The Komen group proves that it’s hard for anyone with a conscience to give money to MASS MURDERERS like the abortion factory known as planned parenthood.

They aren’t the ones making it a political issue.  Those that are upset they are no longer sending funds to PP are the ones making it a political issue.

Their statement they issued yesterday explained their reasoning for discontinuing funding.  They want more of their funds directed to breast cancer screening.  PP DOES NOT provide breast cancer screening.  They provide referrals to places that offer breast cancer screening.   Providing a mammogram to a woman COST MONEY.  Providing a referral to a place that provides mammograms does not cost money.  The Komen Foundation wants their money to go to places where women can get an actual mammogram, since that is what cost money.

There is nothing political about this.  This is an effort on Komen’s part to provide as many free/low cost mammograms as possible.  By eliminating funding to PP, who DOES NOT provide mammograms, they can spend that money where mammograms are given.  This decision is consistent with the mission of Komen.  My understanding is PP is not the only organization who lost funding from Komen, but yet they are the ones making a stink about it.

Again, Komen is not the one who have made this a political issue.  PP and its supporters are the ones making this political.

It would be nice if more attempts at finding common ground were made. I also wish pro-lifers would acknowledge than making abortion illegal will not end abortion. Abortion existed long before Roe v. Wade. It would continue to exist if Roe v. Wade were overturned. It will not harm women of means. They will continue to have access to the best medical care and easy access to contraception (and abortions if necessary).

Another example of anarchist & destructive tendencies of the Left! Another is the occupy movement burning American flags. And, they (media) tried to pain the Tea Party as the worst! HA!

Hey as long as Democrats have the right to savagely murder babies for the sake of convenience and cry racism they will be happy.  

Oh yeah by the in case all you pro-deathers did not notice you are losing the war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2012 new court baby.

“There is nothing political about this.”

Please. Of course there is. It’s partly in response to the politically motivated congressional investigation launched by Cliff Stearns. Don’t be naive.

Here is the difference…when some lunatic shoots an abortion provider or bombs a clinic, Christian conservatives don’t circle the wagons around them and “justify” their actions.  Quite the opposite, they condemn them.  This might be the reason why there have been so few clinic bombings and shootings. 

there is not a wide spread belief amongst conservative Christians that the means justify the end. 

Whenever violence occurs on the left, it is always justifyied (just look at how the Occupy crowd has been treated by the media).  “Yes, yes…their actions might be wrong.  But you have to understand how frustrated and angry they are about the social injustices in our society.”

Left – violent actions always justified.
Right – violent actions are a representation of how violent and scary “right-wing nuts” are.

PP DOES NOT provide breast cancer screening.  They provide referrals to places that offer breast cancer screening.

Right. This is an important point that seems lost in this. The “screenings’ they do, any woman can do for herself. http://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/guide/breast-self-exam

They don’t do mammograms which is the screening that matters. 

Again, you are the one making this a political issue.  Why isn’t there a problem with any of the other organization they are no longer funding? 

Yeah! Breast cancer is awesome! Like abortion.

Yes, I agree we should just cut off the one charity that has done more to fight breast cancer,  than any other and one that will be sorely missed…  good thinking dog..  Why not just let this thing play out for a couple of weeks and see where they are at when things settle down?

Progressives truly are vicious.  

Andrea Mitchell MSNBC founder Komen trying to defend the defunding…..badly, IMO

No I’m not. Don’t be so obtuse. Cliff Stearns launched a sham investigation and Komen stated that part of the reason they pulled funding it because they can’t donate to organizations under congressional investigation. That is a political issue. Open your eyes.

So, ignorant liberal now think that helping women become aware of breast cancer is a punishable offense. How ignorant and stupid and typical.

Wow your partisan blinders are working overtime. The entire left, millions of people, say violent actions are always justified? Overly broad and absurd generalizations are asinine.

Reap what you sow, some other commenter said.  I agree.  Planned Parenthood has a history of reaping something they don’t want you knowing about.  The fact that Komen is dedicated to finding a cure for breast cancer, and that by sending the money directly to those who are *really* working for what they want to do, instead of through Planned Parenthood, (who by the way provides NO BREAST CANCER SCREENING THEMSELVES!!!) they are eliminating a bureaucratic middleman that will take their slice out of the pie before passing it on.  Worse, they would by association be seeming to support other functions that Planned Parenthood is engaged in, and they have every right to *not* endorse what the rabid masses here are demanding they support. You want your dollar and my dollar, too.  Sorry, I’ll give more to Komen, because I believe in what they do.

As for the Hacking of the Site, I can appreciate the subtle art with which they did it.  I can’t condone it, but then again, I don’t find the idea that someone would do this in protest so very offensive.  Unlike burning cars, or spiking trees, the damage that was done was pretty much the same as what any peaceful protest would have caused.  Nothing was damaged that could not easily be fixed, and people just trying to make a living were not killed.  I am not sympathetic to their point of view, but I certainly respect their right to express it, just as much as I respect Komen’s choice to point their money in a more direct path to the need they are trying to fill.

I thought you TeaBagger types weren’t concerned with social issues.
I guess you fooled us, huh.

 If SGKF is so concerned about streamlining operations and setting new priorities, perhaps they could start with founder Nancy G. Brinker’s exorbitant salary.

When you factor in benefits and all forms of compensation she receives over $500, 000 per year. Geez.

Now the NFL should stop support of Komen: besides, that pink makes the uniforms look like crap, and we have to see it for the whole month of October.

Yup…  Never mind that hacking their website is a federal crime..  They have offended  progressive values so all becomes fair at that point.  

No. Like another comment has alluded to, the left wing has a view that the ‘means justify the end.’ 

OWS widely justified attacking police officers because they feel America is a ‘police state.’ Look on youtube, look at OWS websites. The media IGNORED the rapes, robberies, and assaults at OWS because they sympathized with the 99% message. The media and liberals didn’t condemn the Unions who were sending death threats to Wisconsin congressman during Gov. Walker’s collective bargaining protest. Liberals LOVE that Dan Savage made a disgusting nickname for “Santorum” – even though it does nothing to advance LGBT rights and is just pure bullying. 
These are just a few examples. 

As is your right. Much like their right to defund planned parenthood

“Women with little income don’t have these luxuries, which is where
Planned Parenthood health centers come in. A clinic can be virtually a
one-stop shop, where a woman might come for a Pap smear, birth control pills and a breast examination, all on the same visit.

While mammograms and biopsies are referred out to other doctors at
low or no costs, Planned Parenthood physicians oversee the cases. Women also learn in the clinics how to examine their breasts for cancer.

Without Planned Parenthood and similar organizations, the people most in need of this care would be the least likely to get it.”

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/02/opinion/stepp-komen-planned-parenthood/?hpt=us_c1

You continue to make absurdly broad generalizations that are completely removed from reality. You demonize millions of people and act as if they all have the exact same thoughts and beliefs. It’s just as stupid as saying something like “all conservatives hate poor people.”

Oh, my lord!  Why would you say that?  Is this organization not allowed to have their own policies that they follow or to make their own decisions about what they do with their money?

“Oversee the cases”? If you get breast cancer, PP is not overseeing your case. They’re not oncologists.

That’s how politics work. Like it or not, there ain’t no changing that. 

Yeah, well, a willingness to break the law out of our own sense of interest is probably what separates people who don’t truly respect it from the folks who truly DO.

You try to defend what can not be defended…  Progressives do believe that the ends justifies the means… No matter what the means may come to be.. 

Amen to that. There’s no pink in football. It’s horrendous.

Ah, OK. That doesn’t in any way diminish anything in that piece.

Not as long as people like you believe that and do whatever you can to ensure that it doesn’t get better.

You have the same problem he does.

The Komen organization injected politics into the equation over a woman’s heath all because one Republican Representative decided to investigate Planned Parenthood!!

Republicans should be ashamed of themselves!!

You guys kill me, they are probably one of the most effective charities out there saving the lives of and giving comfort and guidance to women in the worst moments of their lives that they will ever have to face.  Yet they have offended progressive sensibilities so now they must be condemned for the monsters they are…  Here why don’t you look over their financial statements and see for yourself what these people have been doing for the benefit of women over the years…

http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/SGKFTC_FY10AnnualReport.pdf 

The flaw in your argument: One group/side/opinion wants to make the activity of the other group illegal. Period. I have no problem with women who CHOOSE not to have an abortion. I have a BIG problem with them forbidding me from making that legal and safe choice.

I just read the article you linked to. While there has been an increase in the amount of Americans polled who consider themselves “prolife”, that increase is attributed to the rightward swing of the Republican Party. The percentages of those identifying as Democrats who are prochoice has remained unchanged. This may signify a shift in opinion or a turning up of the heat of the exteme right and their ability to hijack a party.

Huh. So you also would condemn the illegal actions of the anti choice forces? Clinic bombings, attacks/killings of abortion providers, etc. What about actions that are disgusting, invasive and appalling but perhaps not technically illegal? Like forcing jars of dead fetuses in the faces of women going into abortion clinics? Also not OK with you?

Whatever, like I said they have offended your progressive sense of what is right and wrong…  Why don’t you go to their website where they have their financials linked and read for yourself what this organization actually means to women, instead of just picking sides in a political fight…  No matter the issue with planned parenthood, this is still an important organization doing good work.  Seems that we should allow for some kind of resolution to take place before we condemn them to the bowels of hell.  

Honestly,I don’t know what the big deal is about this. They are a private organization and they are entitled to their views. These folks should not have hacked them. This kind of behavior stifles opportunities for debate.

If planned parenthood can’t get the money from these Komen folks, wellllll, maybe its time to get creative. Tons of rich folks in this great nation of ours. Sheesh. This is not an issue.

The “it’s not a political issue” doesn’t make sense. Komen itself said its reason for stopping funding to PP was because of a new policy to not give funds to organizations under Congressional investigation. Given that its new Vice President advocated this exact position in her run for Governor and that the policy was changed very soon after the Republican House began this investigation it would be naive to refuse to see the politics involved.

By the way, this funding to PP was ONLY for Breast Cancer Screening, NOT for any other activities that PP does.

Where did I say any of that, but hey, how about forcing smokers to look at picts of F’d up people each time they want to light up…  like I said your progressive sensibilities have been offended so no amount of outrage could be too much..  you guys are laughable…  BTW you don’t see me advocating on one side or the other for abortion, it does offend my sensibilities, but then again I am not going to try and make that call for our society nor those who have to make it on a personal level.  

I did however read the financial statements for the Susan G Komen charity, it seems that not only do they do really good and important work for women who are going through the most severe of crisis in their lives, but the bulk of their money goes where it should, probably one of the most important charities we have that you folks seem so willing to shut down because you perceive that they have taken a stance against your precious abortion.  

No but they may be case managers. A crucial function. Most people do not have case managers or anyone to help walk and talk them through a difficult process. Because of the personal relationships built at many PP facilities, the PP staff can be a crucial bridge and support for women, especially poor women. Cancer care is not just about testing, chemo and surgery.

AHEM:  They were for women getting mammograms and then STOPPED GIVING THEM TO POOR WOMEN.  The new leadership is against abortion, etc.  I say,
if you are against it, do not have one (IT IS LEGAL) and if you want one get it.  I’ll be with you all the way.  Komen will not get a dime of my money nor will I sponsor anyone in the Race for the Cure.  People are now donating directly to Planned Parenthood.  Planned Parenthood provided me with birth control pills eons ago for $3 and now I hear they cost the earth?  WHY?  Zillions have been sold and shouldn’t that have LOWERED THE PRICE?

Whoa! Really!  How about the Tea Party bringing guns to Obama rallies?  And thinking it’s just fine to shout “Liar” to the President during a State of the Union message to Congress? Seriously dude?  I wish the left were more militant!  What has been so clear about the Tea Party supporters and those they elect to Congress is that they are entirely unwilling to compromise. That is a dirty word to the whole movement. That is not militant? You know what, we progressives lived through this “militant” crap before. Except the right was much LESS militant. Now your argument is just silly. Sorry dude, wake up. Or is that too militant for you?

No, that was Machiavelli, not progressives.  The very word progressives says it. We are not the radicals.  This would be amusing if it were not: 1)untrue and 2)damaging to the discourse.

YOU guys kill ME.  This is about BREAST CANCER.  This is about WOMEN’S HEALTH.  Many of us have worked, run, walked, contributed to Komen because we believed that were NOT political.  Planned Parenthood is in MANY areas where doctors are not available.  They are there for low income women.  KOMEN made this political by deciding not to fund PP after 20 years of working with them.  It is YOU that is saying ‘yeah well they’ve done good work you should let them screw you.’  What WE are saying, you know ‘us guys’ is that we will redirect our donations to groups that do not use women’s health as a wedge issue. 

what kind of a fool ARE you?   NO they do not get to fool us into supporting them and then take our money and pull the rug out underneath women because of a POLITICAL ISSUE.  It’s about women’s HEALTH.  They don’t want to fund organizations that are in small areas without doctors, then fine.  We’ll take our money elsewhere. 

OK small language point that matters: they are not “defunding” Planned Parenthood, just like Planned Parenthood can’t “defund” them. They are stopping grants they make to PP. 

the fact that this “investigation” is bogus doesnt seem to register…..anyone can order an investigation.  and men, yu have no rights over a woman’s body; planned parenthood is an educational organization and as far as i can tell y’all would also like to turn back birth control…….republican bozos living under a rock;  women have the right to choice, period. PP has been a target of the republicans for years; this is nothing new; you would have us all in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant; and not educating our young women about birth control etc.  get a grip…….

Well that is your right, and I honestly hope that you keep up your charitable efforts and can find another charity to support that is effective at delivering their dollars to the causes that you support as Susan G. Komen has been. 

The Susan Koman Foundation was supposedly a foundation to raise funds and awareness of breast cancer which is what took Susan’s life.  Where it got into the birth control business I don’t know – glad to know though because that ends my contributions to this “foundation”.  

Hahahahahahaha.

> (who by the way provides NO BREAST
> CANCER SCREENING THEMSELVES!!!)

Sorry, but that’s a flat-out bald-face lie. Planned Parenthood provided free breast cancer screening to over 30,000 women who qualified vis-a-vis lack of sufficient income last year.

But don’t let facts get in the way of your screed… come right out with your next lie, Mel…

How dare they spend their money as they see fit.

No…they are not one of “the most effective” charities.
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.comments&orgid=4509 

The Komen organization is playing political football with womens lives.

We can read tenfold what Komen org. has done to help women, but that’s not going to cut it on this asinine decision. The SG Komen org has turned chicken by bowing to pressure from pro lifers. They’ve lost the courage, the guts to stand up for themselves.    

Thousands of women rely on planned parenthood clinics for breast screening, as they cannot afford it otherwise. Now that screening is in grave danger of being no more. 
How ironic.  An organization that professes to wanting to end breast cancer, cuts off funding for breast cancer screening at planned parenthood.  

If this decison stays, in the next year or so, we can all be assured, we’ll be reading report after report, on the many women dying from undetected breast cancer.

I always suspected SGK was a front for some right-wing money laundering scheme and now I know it is a front for the radical religious right. John D. Raffaelli, a Komen board member and Washington lobbyist (can we say Texas & Repulican & health care aka pro-lifer) along with  Karen Handel, the former Republican candidate for governor (can we say tea bagger) are right (no pun intended) in the thick of this. The foundation is trying to spin it that this move wasn’t political.  Good luck with that!  Support Planned Parenthood.  Stand for progress! Stand with Progressives!

Yeah our side hacks websites, your side has Scott Roeder types murder abortion doctors and terrorists like Eric Rudolph bomb clinics and then bomb innocent people at the Olympics. The violence of the right will be defeated through peaceful means of love and equality.

Ich bin ein Republican.  Ya.

Having pink problems with your would-be masculinity??

PP hides child
sex abuse, engages in Medicare fraud, and wastes my taxpayer money.
And do you know its beginnings? I thought not

Having an abortion is not NOT not a health issue. How any thinking person says it is is bewildering. Well, worse than that. Breast cancer is a health issue; having a baby is NOT.

Just what side would be my side?  The one which supports Susan G. Komen foundation’s fight against breast cancer?  Is that the side you are referring to?  Coz I don’t see anything in anything I said other than my disgust with progressive tactics that would say that I advocate for any side on the abortion issue. 

Approximately only 23 to 25 % of the money raised by Koman goes to actual research or helping women with breast cancer.

They also attack other smaller charities and use money donated to them to sue in litigation other charities who use any form of the phrase “for the cure”.

“Non-profit” is a very misleading term.

abortion is healthcare. how do you think an abortion takes place? Magic? Good women every day choose abortion for good reasons. I’d ask that you try to be a bit more compassionate for those who don’t agree with you.

Of course it’s not political. At all.

The new person in charge of the Foundation being vocally anti-choice has
absolutely nothing to do with the decisions of the Foundation.

Well, their financial reporting would say otherwise..

http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/SGKFTC_FY10AnnualReport.pdf 

But hey, I sure that I should just take your word for it…

Abortion—murdering a fetus—is NOT healthcare. Ending breast cancer is. What good reason is there for a woman to murder her own baby? If you can think of one, even one, then perhaps we can discuss the issue. And if having a woman says having baby is just inconvenient, well, there’s always adoption. Maybe you should watch the movie, The Silent Scream.

Oh FFS. Redirecting *our* hard-earned money to an organization that better fits our values does not equal condemning Komen “to the bowels of hell.” We are exercising our rights. (And since some misguided people in power have deed themselves fit to interfere with our reproductive rights, we are using the muscle we have left – our MONEY). We are talking sense. You are being flippant.

“Progressives sure are vicious.” Again, more flippancy. How is exercising one’s rights being vicious? 

“Seems that we should allow for some kind of resolution to take place…”  Jack, that is just an incredibly wimpy statement. When you care about something, you don’t sit back passively and wait for someone, somewhere to do something about it. You speak up. You take a stand. You take ACTION.

We are adults living in the free world, Jack. Come out of your playhouse and join us.

I would like to say how relived I am that you’ve condemned those who kill abortion providers–I was sort of mentally steeling myself for the opposite of that. Some times I think we forget that conservatives and liberals aren’t homogeneous, well-coordinated groups. So thanks for that.

That having been said, can’t you come up with a better example of violent liberals? I mean, you’re comparing people who shoot abortion providers to the OWS movement–which is arguably better known for being the victims of police violence than for being violent–and these people who hacked the Komen site basically in order to post a snarky comment.

Written by a man no doubt.  How can a national non-profit organization committed to women and women’s health issues be a waste of money?  I have never had an abortion and I can tell you one BIG reason is because when I was in college I took advantage of the health services that Planned Parenthood provided. The attack on Planned Parenthood by the radical religious right has been building, but yet it’s still here. Why some might wonder? It is because it provides an invaluable service to women and our community. Stand for Progress. Stand with Progressives. 

So you do with your money as you will.  GOOD FOR YOU!

Does that the people who disagree with you the moral authority to hack your computer?

Komen cut off funding for breast screening at PP clinics. Without breast screening, many Grandmothers, Mothers, daughters, sisters, cousins, best friends, will eventually die from undetected breast cancer.
I doubt an organization that can so easily bow to political pressure, & turn their back on the thousands of women who rely on breast screening at PP because they cannot afford to have the test elsewhere, will be sorely missed for long. 

You do understand that there’s a difference with your “not supporting them” from being of a mindset that equates “nonsupport” with a moral right to hack into (or to support the hacking into) their website?

You enjoy and cherish the right to make your own decisions about your interest and money (without illegal duress) and so should this organization.

 And as a private citizen, I am entitled to never give them another cent, which is exactly what I’m doing. If they have the gall to send me literature requesting more donations, I also have every right to mark it “refused” and put it right back in the mail to them so the Komen Fountation can enjoy paying the return postage.

“  like I said your progressive sensibilities have been offended”  You keep saying that. I am confounded that you would equate a threat to one’s reproductive rights or access to health care  an offence of the sensibilities. 
Your username implies that you are male (I admit that is an assumption om my part, of course). However, if I’m right, I bet you’d feel much differently if you were a woman. You’d feel much more than just “offended.”

Playing the Gender Card?  Wow I kinda thought we ‘re all in this together Progressives?
But there’s the rub, Progressive. The bane of America.
You were put down last century, we’re now just being reminded of that cancer.

The only 2 times the US had interment camps? Progressives
Re-segregate the military? Progressives

Bottom line Both progressivism and socialism champion the prerogatives of
the state over the prerogatives of the individual. Welcome to Europe

An invaluable service eh? Even without the evil of abortion, they, for the most part, don’t perform the services they advertise to deflect the abortion argument.
A group called 30 Planned Parenthood centers nationwide in 27 different
states where abortion facility staff were asked whether or not
mammograms could be performed on site. Every one of the Planned
Parenthood centers admitted they could not do mammograms. Every Planned
Parenthood, without exception, tells the women calling that they will
have to go elsewhere for a mammogram, and many clinics admit that no
Planned Parenthood clinics provide this breast cancer screening
procedure.

So with PP being under investigation by the gov’t, Komen dropped them. What investigation you ask?

New charges from seven former workers—including a self-described
“abortion doctor”—that Planned Parenthood used federal money for
abortions despite prohibitions is expected to fire up Republicans
seeking to shut off tax dollars to the massive family planning group.

In a letter to the House committee investigating Planned Parenthood,
the seven former workers also charged that they have witnessed
staffers fail to notify parents when a minor sought an abortion,
failed to provide a women undergoing an abortion with “accurate and
relevant information” regarding the stage of her pregnancy, or detect
and act upon instances were a female was brought to a clinic under
coercion, possibly even human trafficking.

…The committee is probing allegations that Planned Parenthood is
misusing taxpayer funds, which the seven pegged at $1 million a day in
state and federal support. In opening his investigation, Florida
Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns recently demanded documents related to
audits, abortion-funding, and policies on reporting sexual abuse from
Planned Parenthood.

Waste of money

from Naoma:  Yes, I will do with my money what I wish.  I ask no one to follow me.  I never once mentioned Hacking into a computer — I would not know how nor care to learn.  People can disagree with me all they want.  I love a good discussion.

Dear Cecelia:  ”non support”  yes.  Who is talking “hacking?”  The “ORGANIZATION” went back on its word and that is deceitful. I, in the past, have given support to some of the runners for the “Cure” that I know, but they now know that I cannot support them this year.

Saw one of the democrat talking heads on fox, funny first name shamu somrething. Anyway she was extolling thevirtures of PP and castigating the Komen foundation. A spokeswoman for Komenhad trouble getting a word in because shamu was running her mouth as usuall.

This is the most disgusting thing I’ve heard of yet…hacking a Breast Cancer site that helps thousands of women fight that dreadful disease!  It shows how low, dirty and vile are the supporters of Planned Parenthood.

I am pro-choice, but I deeply resent this despicable, shameful action.  The people who perpretated this shameful act should be asked by Planned Parenthood to apologize to the Susan Komen organization and to breast cancer patients everywhere!

SHAME!!!!!

you are disgusting!  Perhaps the organization felt it had more important places to spend its money where it would help women fight breast cancer.  Who are YOU to tell them where they should place their money? 

YOU ARE THE ONE MAKING THIS A POLITICAL ACT….NOT THEM/.

I believe it is a woman’s right to do what she feels is best for her body and her right to abort without interference.  But PP IS NOT entitled to the money raised by the Susan Komen  organization for breast cancer, nor are they entitled to take money from anyone or any organization not willing to give that money voluntarily.

To defend PP – or rather the perpetators of this shameful act  is WRONG.  I hope this was not instigated by anyone at PP but rather by some angry fool with no sense of right or wrong.

Really?

I guess you know all about that.  Bald face lying that is.  Either that, or you are smoking way too much of the “good stuff” lately.  And here is a clue for you.  You can Photoshop out the bloodshot eyes, you don’t need the sunglasses which are so 80′s now, and really don’t make you look cool.

Try this link:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/planned-parenthood-president-falsely-claimed-their-clinics-provide-mammograms_556015.html

Planned Parenthood provides NO MAMMOGRAMS!!!  Heck, get one of your lady friends, (assuming you actually have any) and have them call for you and ask for one.  They won’t get one.  Period.  They refer people out for that.  They used the money from Komen to pay for some outside agencies to give people Mammograms, true enough.  And if their books are straight, they kept only a little bit for administrative costs, costs that are eliminated completely by Komen giving the money directly to those providing the care.

I am not surprised at your position, however.  Creating a brush fire where there is none comes too easy to radicals like yourself which gives all Liberals and Liberal causes a bad name.  I dare you to fact check yourself with a little undercover work.  Heck, you don’t even have to be good at it to come to the truth!  But if you think that is too much of a challenge…

But what should I expect.  Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards went on CNN and claimed that if Congress cut off funding to Planned Parenthood ”millions of women are going to lose access, not to abortion services, to basic family planning, you know, mammograms.”  Duh.  If the leader says it, it must be true the followers like you say.

From PP’s own site:

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/womens-health/mammogram-21195.htm

Click on the Bullet Point “Where Can I Get a Mammogram?”

Gee, they say that if you call a Planned Parenthood health center, they will be able to tell you where you can get one in your area.  They don’t say they will get you into one of their centers to get one, because they DON’T DO MAMMOGRAMS!!!  That is just not their thing.  Komen is going to do their thing, part of which is to provide Mammograms.  Planned Parenthood is going to do their thing, which is NOT to provide Mammograms, but does include Abortions, which is why some people find it distasteful that they should actually lie about this to try to make themselves look better.  Komen thought in the past that Planned Parenthood was a reasonable avenue to use to get Mammograms done.  They now think they have better options.  You disagree, but that is because Planned Parenthood wants you to, and lets face it, you’re their boy!!!

 I”m guessing that you are a guy. There are certain situations where having an abortion IS a health issue. Have you never heard of the exemptions for the “health of the mother”. There are times when trying to carry a fetus to term can KILL the mother. The big three reasons for exemptions just so you know are rape, incest and health of the mother.

My 17 year old cousin died giving birth. Here are some other “Women’s Health Issues” for abortion. Pre-Enclampsia, Ectopic Pregnancy, Vaginal Bleeding, Pelvic or Abdominal Pain, Persistent Back Pain, Gush of Fluid from the Vagina, Swelling of the Hands & Feet-Edema, Severe Headaches & Blurry Vision, No Fetal Movement. So yes, having an abortion can be a Health Issue.

WTF?  This is about BREAST CARE…this is about having a place for women to go.  The RIGHT has made it about abortion.  Oh and abortion is women’s health care.  If we spent an iota of the time speaking of planning we wouldn’t have this discussion.  But no, we have comments like yours.

 Thank you fort hat link. My donations will now go directly to Planned Parenthood.
No more sending those Pink Lids for the Yoplait Yogurt I love to eat.

yes I do understand ‘the right’.  And I don’t disagree.  However, Komen spent time and money saying they were non political and then they pulled this.  So I will not send my money there.  And hacking?  Are you under the misunderstanding that the hacking was a vast left wing conspiracy?

you are a fool.  Komen spent time and money telling those of us that supported them where they were putting the money WE contributed.  Now they have changed their criteria.  We feel betrayed.  We are not going to give them one more dime.  WHO IS making this political?  When did YOU come to the party?

Mammograms are not the only kind of breast cancer screening.  Physical breast exams are the most common and usually done with every gynecological check up.  Mammograms don’t usually start until you are older and aren’t done every year till you are older still.  

 Evidently you’ve never heard of the National Breast Cancer Foundation based in Texas.

 For Jack…Funny that their financial statement doesn’t even list their legal department at all. Wonder why?

When ignorant people like you speak, it makes me support abortion even more! Keep talking!

Running over poor women? Is that anything like butchering babies in their mother’s womb?

Ladies and Gents….Ad hominum for your viewing pleasure.
Support it all you want, obviously I cannot influence your opinion, whatever it is.
And yours doesn’t influence me, you know with all that debate knowledge you possess

For Boo Boo Bear,

Probably because that would be covered under Administrative costs…  this is not a detailed financial statement but it does show where their money goes.  I am sure that as a non profit organization that there are public records available if you are truly interested.  

It has to do with a female body. It IS healthcare. BooBoo Bear below has already dismantled your flippant, unserious comment. You are entitled to your own opinion, not facts. Furthermore, anyone forcing you to have an abortion? Ever seen an ad anywhere by pro-choicers asking you to have an abortion? MORON.

I stand by my statement progressives feel that they have righteousness on their side and as such they feel no limitations in the actions that they take towards their goals.  Cases in point, the take over of the Wisconsin Legislature, the OWS movement in general including the hundreds of arrests and the trampling of old ladies at Occupy DC, the Occupy Providence movement throwing condoms at catholic school girls as they attended a pro-life rally…  Progressives often show themselves to be scum.

You have got to be kidding me !!!Your sense of what is right for women’s breast 
cancer and then talk about no respect is just unreal.

In 2010 (I can’t find anything newer) it was 19% that went to research, 12% went to screening and 5% to treatment.  In otherwords, only 36% went to actually doing something about breast cancer.  Although, as BooBoo Bear below me points out, it doesn’t list their massive legal costs, so the percentage going towards research and treatment is much less than 36%, probably closer to what you have.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Q5HMpMAaS0I/TX6AoXw-0-I/AAAAAAAAAOE/prYHF4ve4PU/s1600/2010pie.jpeg 

Seriously? All they did was put front page statement demonstrating what SGK is doing. It was truth. I personally know someone who was diagnosed with breast cancer who could not get anyone from SGK to call them back. I guess they were too busy treating their elite customers, and deciding not to help the poor any longer. All it was is is a phrase to depict what they are doing wrong. The site was not destroyed. Geeze, people, get a grasp. 

This blog post about Komen finances is actually a very interesting read…

http://cancerculturenow.blogspot.com/2011/03/komen-by-numbers-2010-and-still-no.html 

sorry you feel you must call me a moron. Not a helpful comment, however.

LOL!!…I just love watching liberals get all tongue-tied when they are b*tch-slapped with facts and destroy their keyboards….posting  some inane psychobabble in response.
Do you know of PP’s beginnings….sttb73?

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TuxcedoCat said:
“The attack on Planned Parenthood by the radical religious right has been building…”

Tell me, what is so radical about being abhorred by the butchering of a baby ?
Kudos on being correct in calling us  “right”….religious or not.

Stand?
I thought you were supposed to lean forward bend over.

 Why go to all that trouble, Little Jeffrey…I have a better idea where you can stick that literature.

Oh…I see….Instead of teaching the young girls how to examine themselves…some (possibly) lecherous PP staffer does the job….and when they get older and are less “perky”….PP sends them off to have mammograms.
Nice racket

Oh, I see. You’re a pathetic idiot.

I think the “ignorance” label comes from the fact that k’sonus was spouting ignorant twaddle.

Also, you don’t seem to know what the terms “tongue-tied,” “bitch-slapped,” or “psychobabble” mean.

Although you do demonstrate an instinctive grasp of “inane.”

Perhaps they were too busy taking care of PP to respond to your friend.  Why don’t we ask some of the thousands of women who have been helped by them, rich or poor?

I personally will NO LONGER SUPPORT PLANNED PARENTHOOD because of this disgraceful attack on the Susan Komen organization.  I have a sister struck with breast cancer and have lost a friend to it.  If you think there  IS ANY JUSTIFICATION for attacking an organization that helps breast cancer patients, then you are simply a cold hearted political hack with no conscience.

Your post is not only low, dirty, vile, despicable, and shameful; it’s also bizarre and unhinged.

@Scum_Jack

Right, just look at the Patriot Act, Guantanamo, terror crusade etc.

It’s not surprising that you’re too dim to see that statements like “Progressives are scum” indicate where you fall on the political spectrum.

LOL!!  I leave it to the reader of my comment and your reply to decide who is unhinged!

That’s “radical religious right-wingnuts” – get it ‘right’! :-)

You mean Planned Parenthood? Exactly.

Stop by a destruction site (more of those around than construction sites thanks to repugnitard economic policies) and grab a couple bricks. Tape their return envelope to one and hand it to your mailman personally… because thanks to 9/11 (which happened under Bush/Vader, remember), you can’t put packages over 1 pound in mailboxes.

Statistically, there is no difference in self-detection rates between women who were “taught” self examination and women that figured out how to do a self examination for themselves. 

Now, smart ass… did you ask them how many abortion clinics are located inside Planned Parenthood offices?
I’ll bet it matches the number of mammogram machines.

Still pushing that one, Pablo? Like it or not, PP does screening and refers to mammograms and oncologists. Most of the women they serve do not have access otherwise. You are allowing your dislike of 2 percent of PP’s operations to be all that matters.

The manual exam is key to catching breast cancer in younger women and getting them to a mammogram and oncologist. PP doctors remain in charge of the overall patient care which, in case you don’t know is extensive once a diagnosis is made.

They provide many women’s health services that have nothing to do with pregnancy. Your continued concept that this is something women can do themselves and so on is actually opposite Komen’s own recommendations.

Obviously, on this one, you are allowing your partisanship and automatic dislike of PP based on the blatant lie of a US Senator and the opportunistic “investigation” by an otherwise useless Congress critter to outweigh any level of concern for these women. Nice.

Not only do they circle the wagons, but they offer monetary support. Remember Randall Terry? The Reverend Randall Terry?

They should be able to, but Komen shouldn’t.

Yeah that is kind of sad that the Komen representative didn’t get a word in edgewise. Because if she had she would have said that “Shamu” was right and that the Komen foundation takes back everything it had previously said about not funding Plan Parenthood. It takes me back to my old military days when we were on the parade ground at MCRD and the DI would yell….”About Face!!!”. That’s what Komen did today.

Well, Darr Darr has a good point.  There is little difference between self-detection rates for those formally taught and those who informally learned on their own, possibly with help from a friend.  But that point really is *not* in Planned Parenthood’s favor.  Good point, just not supporting his side of this argument, although I am pretty sure he did not see that, or he would have kept that to himself.

Now when he asks what he thinks must be a rhetorical question about the number of Abortion Clinics inside Planned Parenthood Offices, I am pretty sure he was spoon fed that answer and did not have a clue.  Pretty typical of extremists on both the Left and the Right.  It is not a rhetorical question as he seems to want to treat it, and the answer that he insinuates, that there are as many abortion clinics within Planned Parenthood as they have Mammogram Machines, is slightly skewed.  Actually it is horribly skewed, but to just realize that it is slightly skewed, you need to look no farther than Planned Parenthood’s own website again.

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topics/abortion/in-clinic-abortion-procedures-4359.asp

Click on the bullet point: “Where Can I Get an In-Clinic Abortion? How Much Does It Cost?”

The first sentence tells the story as it is:

“Abortions are available at many Planned Parenthood health centers, clinics, and the offices of private health care providers”

So that pretty much establishes it.  They do directly provide abortions themselves.  You are welcome to argue about the numbers, but be careful.  It is out there to see.  And sometimes you can find the demographics on just who they provide abortions to mostly.  Look at the founder of Planned Parenthood.  That organization was based upon the concept of eugenics, and as the founder saw it, it was a *very* racist idea, (although she did not see it as racist, but only as “proper”) designed to cull out as many of the “undesirable” sub standard people, even openly advocating that people of color were a major part of the “undesirable” element that they were targeted to get rid of.

When you hear any extremist, left or right, on any issue, say something that is really questionable in any way, I have only one piece of advice:  Seek the truth out yourself, and learn who is willing to lie the most to make their point.  If you choose to trust those that you find lying the most because their position “feels” best to you, that is your choice.  Just don’t expect a lot of respect from people who are smart enough to figure out just how misled you really are, or worse yet, how far you are willing to mislead others!

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NO. No I don’t remember Randall Terry or Reverend Randall Terry.

Begging your pardon, but your reply was very stupid and insulting to boot, regarding my friend who tried many times to contact SGK. Your reply attempted to mitigate the lack of response from SGK. I don’t need to “try” asking anyone. (Why don’t you try asking someone who didn’t get help from the oh holier and greater SGK foun dation?) I know personally a case where they didn’t respond to many attempts to contact them. She found help elsewhere and almost didn’t make it. This really was a lame reply. Try being “real”, would you? Taking care of PP, indeed. Stupid reply. Very stupid. You won’t deserve any replies from thinking people in the future. It is clear you are not one of those. Thanks for playing.