Of the many incongruities arising from last week’s savaging of the Susan G. Komen Foundation by Planned Parenthood and its minions, the greatest single seeming incongruity is the disproportionate attack on Komen in light of the paltry sum of money involved.
Planned Parenthood is a $1 Billion per year organization who stood to lose $600,000 in Komen grant money. Organizations routinely loose that much money, and more when grants are not renewed, and they are organizations for whom $600,000 is the difference between life and death for the organization.
For Planned Parenthood, the loss of Komen funding represented 6/10 of 1/1000 of their budget. So what’s going on here?
It wasn’t the money at issue, it’s what Komen’s support means for the organization. Planned Parenthood makes their money performing abortions, mostly on young people. Former Planned Parenthood clinic director, Abby Johnson, tells of how the corporate model at PP was built around abortions.
The charade of concern for women’s breast health is the only socially acceptable vestige left for the organization’s bruised and tatttered reputation. Planned Parenthood performed manual breast exams and referred women to mammogram centers. In some instances, it appears that they paid for the mammograms.
However, Planned Parenthood lied about performing mammograms, and Lila Rose caught them in that lie.
Subsequently, Komen decided that their money would be better spent on paying directly for mammograms, and that’s when all hell broke loose.
Planned Parenthood has an odd way of demonstrating its concern for women’s breast health. They target teenagers with low-dose birth control pills which will fail in their contraceptive effect if not taken precisely on schedule, setting up a lucrative abortion. What the oral contraceptives will not fail in doing is increasing the risk of the deadliest and most aggressive form of breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer.
How much risk?
According to Dr. Louise Brinton of the National Cancer Institute in a 2009 paper, women whose age of first use is below 18 years old have a 540% increased risk. Is that statistic in any of Planned Parenthood’s literature?
The link between oral contraceptives and breast cancer has been known for decades, yet Planned Parenthood dispenses these dangerous drugs to children with reckless abandon.
PP are the lepers of the medical community. They have been caught:
Lying about performing mammograms.
Aiding in child sex trafficking.
Repeatedly showing willingness to violate mandatory reporting laws for statutory rape.
Violating informed consent by giving women medically inaccurate and fabricated information to coerce them into having an abortion.
Enthusiastically accepting money earmarked for aborting Black babies.
This is an organization that makes no distinction between a ten year-old and a twenty-four year-old regarding sex, contraception, and education. In their own words from page 10 of their booklet, Stand and Deliver:
The World Health Organization defines young people as those from 10 to 24 years of age, including adolescents (10–19 years) and youth (15–24 years). IPPF uses the terms young people, youth and adolescents interchangeably to refer to people who are between 10 and 24 years.
This is an organization that tells children in their booklet, Healthy, Happy, and Hot, that disclosure of their HIV status to a sex partner is not mandatory and just another ‘choice’:
You have the right to decide if, when, and how to disclose your HIV status.
There are many reasons that people do not share their HIV status. They may not want people to know they are living with HIV because of stigma and discrimination within their community. They may worry that people will find out something else they have kept secret, like they are using injecting drugs, having sex outside of a marriage or having sex with people of the same gender. People in long-term relationships who find out they are living with HIV sometimes fear that their partner will react violently or end the relationship.
Were all of that not enough, Planned Parenthood has outdone themselves in their latest document, Exclaim!, calling for the abolition of parental consent laws and calling for the sexual rights of ALL persons under the age of 18.
This is the face of a social parasite, of the destroyer of children, of the enormous parasitic organism who preys upon our sons and daughters. All they have left is women’s breast health as the last vestige of credibility, and without Komen, they are sunk.
It wasn’t the 6/10 of 1/1000 of their annual budget that was the threat, it was the loss of the borrowed credibility from Komen that threatened them.
As symbiotic relationships go, this one between PP and Komen is a textbook definition of parasitism. Not only does Komen not need the relationship with PP, but the association is an occasion for PP to engage in a blood meal, feeding off of Komen’s enormous reserves of credibility and good will in the community.
Brinker needs to point out the ugly reality of PP and cut the ties. It would also help if she gave the link between abortion and breast cancer, and the link between the pill and breast cancer their proper recognition.
As the head of the world’s premeir breast cancer foundation, she has an obligation to report the whole truth. If she doesn’t, she isn’t acting in women’s best interests. Unlike PP and the abortion industry, Brinker should tell women the whole truth, and then trust them to make their choices.
Choices that are fully informed.
Planned Parenthood doesn’t trust women, or children. That’s why they savaged Brinker for attempting to withdraw the protective cover of Komen’s good name.
I thought it was a crime to not disclose HIV to one’s sex partner. Well, if it is a crime, that doesn’t matter to PP. It’s a company that likes to break the laws.
PPFA also raked in a young fortune – now they have all that donated “Emergency Fund” money, as well as the continued Komen Grant!
Does anyone smell a set-up here?
Wow, this is fascinating. You don’t often see this many lies, discredited studies and misinterpreted data in one place like this!
{Allegations that I have stated that I would lie to fight abortion have been deleted. Don’t link to articles about the debate over Lila Rose, where I defended the same undercover practices used by law enforcement. Also, I don’t make a penny at blogging, let alone a “nice living”GN}
Thank you for this article. Facts are a great weapon in this war we’re in.
Reblogged this on Jacob H Baugher IV.
“It wasn’t the money at issue, it’s what Komen’s support means for the organization.”
Of course! It gave PP some legitimacy and made what they stand for more palatable, just like calling an abortion a “choice.”
Thanks for more information. Sadly, in my community, sometimes even the facts don’t seem to convince people…. Planned Parenthood will continue to be the bastion of evil it always was and Komen is continuing in the blood-guilt.
[…] pro-life blogger Gerard Nadal points out, the real reason Planned Parenthood wants Komen as a partner is to create the phony public image […]
I was 42 when I was diagnosed with stge 3-B breast cancer. My children were ages 4, 7, 11, and 13. It is sad that I cannot recommend Komen as a resource for others that are battling this disease. Those of us who have been through the fight, or have watched a loved one battle cancer are grateful that we have an opportunity to fight for our lives. Unborn children, the most vulnerable of all humanity, have no means to fight for their own lives. Pray for the victims of Planned Parenthood: babies, mothers, fathers, and employees who are mislead into thinking they are providing a “service”.
I’m praying for the children here who have been abused not once but by also Planned parenhood. It’s sickening!
Reblogged this on The Bunnell Blog and commented:
Planned Parenthood’s activities increase breast cancer rate more than anything else Komen Foundation does decreases it. For Komen to give into PP’s campaign of lies and pressure to give them money would be like Mothers Against Drunk Driving letting Budweiser shake them down for funds.
Did I miss something here?
How exactly did Planned Parenthood “savage” Komen?
I have been closely monitoring PP’s Facebook page, and its Twitter feed, and saw very specific, carefully-worded criticism of Komen’s decision — I didn’t see anything like an attack, or a call to bring Komen down or defund them or anything.
(Some of PP’s individual supporters, on the other hand, certainly did attack Komen — but Komen’s pro-life supporters unquestionably attack PP in exactly the same way.)
L., you did miss something. The media coverage. And here in Houston, several floors of the 7-story building is for ‘media PR/outreach’. Whereas, when over 100,000 people participate in a March for Life, there is very little or no coverage. And the coverage is dismissive, as if all these people haven’t thought through the issue at hand. The media coverage was “savage” and it amplified PP’s response. Komen’s pro-life supporters would not have an issue with PP if it truely was a medical facility and not out there selling sex. Look at their website and notice the first thing that is said – Sexual Reproductive Health – NOT Women’s Health.
Hi there, L.
I’ve been thinking about you a great deal and keeping you in my prayers. How are things in Japan?
GN, I think the links are messed up in this story, where several are missing the colon http and //. Great article otherwise!
Sarah, the media coverage and PP’s statements are not one and the same. Some of the media coverage — on both sides — was indeed “savage.” But I didn’t see any direct statements from PP that could be described as such — though as I said, I am far away and could have missed them, since I was keeping track entirely online.
Dr. Nadal, Japan is approaching the one-year anniversary of the disaster in a few weeks, and those of us in the greater Tokyo area continue to worry about the possibility of radiation in the food/water supply. Here are some photos I took on a July trip to Tohoku:
https://picasaweb.google.com/110838518761804582367/NagatsuraIshinomaki?authkey=Gv1sRgCM-ozZD3gcDvWw
I hope your niece’s recovering is progressing, and I’m sorry for the loss of your friends in that separate accident.
Now back to our regularly scheduled program of fundamental disagreement. As a contributor to PP, I pay close attention to their public statements, and I didn’t see anything that I would call an attack.
Apologies if this is off subject but I have been wanting to hear a discussion on the risk effects of the morning after pill that is at the heart of the current national discussion. If birth control is known for its side effects and the amount of hormone has been decreased to minimize this risk, what about the morning after pill? Maybe I am not reading enough, but I do not see that being addressed.
I was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer requiring radiation treatment 4 years ago. I have never worn one piece of pink or attended 1 Race for the Cure or Relay for Life event because I knew of Komen’s ties to PP.
I think Komen and PP deserve each other. Why? Wasn’t Komen using Ms. Handel to give themselves credibility just like PP is using Komen? Like the old saying goes “Birds of a feather flock together.” BTW, my paternal grandmother had breast cancer she was the only other member of my immediate family to have it besides me. My 1st cousin on my mother’s side was diagnosed with cancer after I was with a history of no breast cancer in her family. The one link we had was we both used the pill when we were younger. I will always believe that is why I got BC.