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Et tu, Komen?

Et tu, Komen?

Last updated on: January 27, 2014 at 2:04 pm by Aliza Worthington

Et tu, Komen? 2014-01-27T14:04:58-05:00 Aliza Worthington

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Hooooooo boy. Just when I was gonna take a break from women’s issues to write about glassblowing or something. Now this. Komen pulls its funding from Planned Parenthood for breast screenings and exams.

Unbelievable. Just unbelievable. I don’t even know where to begin. It’s bad enough there’s a war on women’s health in this country – but to enlist breast cancer survivors and their families to help wage it? Unconscionable.

Now listen. I’ve been accused of being fair to a fault. In my discussion of HR 358, I try my level best to empathize with both sides – going so far as to defend a doctor’s decision not to perform an abortion if it goes against his or her religious beliefs. I still come down on the side of insisting abortion be legal, but I acknowledge the complexity and offer what seems like a common sense solution if the mother’s life is in danger and a doctor’s religious beliefs preclude him from performing abortions.

In my shredding Ray Comfort’s likening abortion to the Holocaust, I am decidedly less empathetic to his methods, but attempt to be clinical and logical in throwing a spotlight on his hypocrisy and fallacious reasoning.

In looking for information about this latest development, I read pieces by NPR, Fox News and The Wall Street Journal. While they differed in tone, a bit, from liberal to conservative outlets, they reported basically the same information, so I consider the information coming out about it reliable. Interestingly, I searched the Komen website and was unable to find out any information at all on the end of their partnership with Planned Parenthood. The articles report, though, that funding was pulled because Planned Parenthood is under investigation. The deafening cheers from anti-abortion groups makes this claim seem disingenuous, to say the least.

Here’s what kills me, though. In applauding Komen’s decision, Americans United for Life President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest said “The work of the Komen Foundation has life-saving potential and should not be intertwined with an industry dealing in death.” REALLY??? What the hell does THAT mean? That it sometimes involves decisions that result in death? Let’s go over some of the other industries and groups that “deal in death” as part of their efforts to save lives.

1. Medical

2. Law Enforcement

3. Gun manufacturing

4. Death Penalty advocates

5. Drug manufacturing

6. Military

Shall I go on? And, I’d love to know what Komen will do with that money instead. Will they create mobil screening trucks or set up labs in the underserved communities Planned Parenthood serves? What will they do to make up for the hundreds of thousands screenings that will NOT take place in Planned Parenthood clinics in the next few years as a result of revoking this funding? How many poor, underprivileged women will find out about their breast cancer too late because of this?

Shame on you, Komen. Shame on you for declaring loud and clear that in certain parts of this country, a fetus’ existence (viable or not) is more important than a woman’s.

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