Although I hate weighing in on this subject the night before The Super Bowl, I shall nonetheless pontificate…
As a fairly dogmatic ProLifer, regardless of what reality is when the dust settles on this, here is what I’ve learned from the Komen-PP dustup: The Susan G. Komen for the Cure charity, which has raised in excess of $2 billion presumably to fight breast cancer, gives grant money to Planned Parenthood, an organization rooted in eugenics, racism, abortion and infanticide – this is something I, and I’d wager most others sympathetic to SGKC’s cause, did not know.
PP is one of the most despicable and evil organizations in America, if not the most despicable. I put PP in the same category as NAMBLA, only NAMBLA has very little political power unlike PP.
Why SGKC ever thought it wise to award grant money to the group, I have no idea. PP is dishonest in its missions, totalitarian in its politics and continues to practice the most vile form of eugenics – locating its clinics primarily in the poorest, blackest neighborhoods in the country and snuffing out what its founder, Margaret Sanger, would no doubt consider undesirable, sub-human life.
As I was telling a friend who is largely indifferent to the abortion issues, “If you are donating money to any organization dedicated to women’s health, chances are a portion of your money will wind up at Planned Parenthood.” The closest I get to donating money to anything is buying Girl Scout cookies each year, and I have no doubt that a few cents of every $3.50 box goes to PP, which sort of makes me a hypocrite.
Anyway, here’s James Taranto at WSJ:
But Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, parses the statement for LifeNews and finds it actually reflects no change in policy: “We have known and have reported that they are continuing five grants [to Planned Parenthood] through 2012. This is a reference to that. The second clause about eligibility is certainly true. Any group can apply for anything. It does not mean they are going to get anything.”
Of course, it also doesn’t mean they’re not going to get anything. The Daily Caller reports that Komen’s donations doubled in the two days after the Planned Parenthood assault began, presumably because lots of people wanted to support its apolitical work against breast cancer but did not want to give money to a group that was subsidizing a group that both performs and advocates for abortion.
via Big Sister Is Watching You – WSJ.com.