Saturday, February 4, 2012

5 Important Lessons from the Komen/Planned Parenthood Fiasco (Don't Mess With Women's Health)

5 Important Lessons from the Komen/Planned Parenthood Fiasco (Don't Mess With Women's Health): "The big win here is that an anti-choice power play failed in the court of public opinion.

What a week it's been for the pro-choice community.

On Tuesday, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the largest breast cancer charity in the country, announced that it planned to impose new funding criteria under which Planned Parenthood would no longer be an eligible grantee. Over the next several days, pro-choice activists and women's health supporters across the nation fought back against what all signs pointed to being a politically motivated attack on Planned Parenthood and the women it serves. Finally, on Friday, all the tweets, Facebook messages, blog posts, and articles pointing out Komen's hypocrisies and misdeeds paid off, and Komen backed down (sort of), announcing that it would tweak its new funding criteria and "continue to fund existing grants, including those to Planned Parenthood."..."

4 comments:

MotivatedinOhio said...

I don't think it is over, their statement was definitely muddled.  I won't ever give to them, I think they are corrupt. 

Underground Politics said...

I don't think it's over either. I'm sure they're going to find another way to try and fuck over Planned Parenthood. They have yet to comment on the whole Penn State situation.

MotivatedinOhio said...

The emails have come out.  

Underground Politics said...

Interesting.