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Published on Thursday, February 2, 2012 by Countdown
Lizz Winstead Protests Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s Decision to Cut Ties with Planned Parenthood
Comedian Lizz Winstead, co-creator of “The Daily Show” and author of “Lizz Free or Die: Essays,” weighs in on the backlash from the decision on the part of Susan G. Komen for the Cure to stop funding breast cancer screenings provided through Planned Parenthood. Winstead considers whether politics played a role in the nonprofit’s policy reversal: “I think she [Nancy Goodman Brinker] said it herself when she was running for governor, when she said, ‘I don’t support the mission of Planned Parenthood.’ And the mission of Planned Parenthood is to provide affordable health care for low-income women. And if you don’t support that mission, I don’t know how you can call yourself pro-life in the least.”
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Show AllThe Susan G. Komen Foundation has been under attack by christian groups and their leaders for years because of the foundation's links to Planned Parenthood.
One of the attackers biggest gripes is that the Komen Foundation has not supported the belief that ending pregnancies causes cancer.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation has now submitted to the Fascist pressure of christians.
Christian money has more power than does science to the Foundation.
Pro life, till birth? Republican war against the poor and women. But still the women will vote republican!
Really sad about this organization doing this to Planned Parenthood!
Komen made her money and fame- and that's what mattered, right?
If the Wikipedia article is right, Susan G. Komen died of breast cancer at the age of 36, in 1980. Her sister started the foundation to fight breast cancer. It was probably a good organization in the beginning, but bringing in the dollars has become it's mission. BTW, that Wikipedia article may be full of errors.
Just sayin'...
Susan G. Komen must be spinning in her safety deposit box.
This turn of events helps underscore my own personal objection to leaving ti up to 'charities' to fund health care etc for the poor (well not so poor any more). It takes very little to turn a charity on a dime and stop a funding stream regardless of community need. This really is a very sad state of affairs. Well we'll just have to contribute to PP directly....perhaps one of our female contributors might enlighten us as to all the OTHER reasons why contraceptive pills might be prescribed that actually have NOTHING to do with contraception.
"...contributors might enlighten us as to all the OTHER reasons why contraceptive pills might be prescribed that actually have NOTHING to do with contraception."
Go ahead.
osteoporosis, endometriosis, hormone deficiency to name the most common. also to enrage men who want to control women.....