Well, in the spirit of freedom of choice, the Susan G. Komen charity to fight breast cancer was assaulted by supporters of Planned Parenthood because they had decided that it was their choice to not fund Planned Parenthood. Well...since choice is only an option for liberal groups, the hollywood left and the rest of the left went on a campaign to force a reversal of that decision and apparently they have succeeded. You can't have people who choose the wrong decision now can you? If they do, they must be attacked and punished.
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The Atlantic Wire reports that the Susan G. Komen foundations website was even hacked, for some period displaying a banner that had been changed from help us get 26.2 or 13.1 miles closer to a world without breast cancer to read, help us run over poor women on our way to the bank. And the long repeated myth that the current Komen CEO takes home a half a million dollar salary was brought back to life yesterday even though the truth is that Komens current CEO, Nancy Brinker, takes home $0 in annual salary.
But hey, breast cancer isnt supposed to be political, right?
To those who are skeptical that Planned Parenthood is the bastion of womens wellness with all the best interests of women in mind that its fervent supporters claim it is, Slate points out that there are in fact some legitimate concerns regarding Planned Parenthood.
in reading the report put together by Americans United for Life, which helped launch the investigation, there are some legitimate concerns. Planned Parenthood offices in California, New Jersey, New York, and Washington state have at various times been audited by state and federal authorizes and discovered to have been overbilling state agencies and committing other improper billing practices. Further, Planned Parenthood has a record of not reporting instances of sexual abuseand Im not talking about 16-year-old girls who come in with their 19-year-old boyfriends. The AUL report documents a case in which a 13-year-old girl was raped by an older foster brother and was impregnatedtwice. Planned Parenthood is required, if it wants to receive federal funds, to comply with mandatory reporting laws.In viewing the 181 page report from Americans United for Life, there are a key number of claims against Planned Parenthood that initiated those investigations:
- Misuse of federal health care and family planning funds.
- Failure to report criminal child sexual abuse.
- Failure to comply with parental involvement laws.
- Assisting those engaged in prostitution and/or sex trafficking.
- Dangerous misuse of the abortion drug RU-486.
- Misinformation about so-called emergency contraception, including ella.
- Willingness to provide women with inaccurate and misleading information.
- Willingness to refer to substandard clinics.