Who Knew?

          Who would have thought that a respected charity like the Susan G. Komen Foundation, an organization with the worthy goal of finding a cure for breast cancer and supporting its victims, was all along contributing money to fund abortions?  Many of you who have contributed to Komen for the Cure must be feeling betrayed right now, wondering how they could possible reconcile supporting these two diametrically opposed causes, one preventing death and the other causing death.  How could breast cancer and abortion possibly be related?  At first we applauded the Komen Foundation’s courageous act in separating itself from the liberal Planned Parenthood organization which promotes late term abortion.  Parental discretion is advised for the following description, but late term abortion is where a fully formed, perfect, living baby is killed inside the womb by decapitation.  In a disappointing reversal under pressure from the Pro-Choice ‘to kill babies’ extremists in the country, Komen caved and reinstated its relationship with Planned Parenthood.

Alternatives to Komen

          I’m sure that Ms. Komen who died of breast cancer at the age of 36 in 1980 would turn over in her grave if she knew her name was now associated with abortion.  Until the Komen Foundation divorces itself from the business of baby killing, many are urging that we send our contributions to other organizations that strictly fund breast cancer related projects.  One worthy alternative would be the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.  There are also many universities and hospitals which do breast cancer research and I am sure they would be happy to receive direct contributions, as well.  A perusal of the full grant disclosure issued by the Avon Foundation for Women confirms that they made no contributions to Planned Parenthood in 2009 or 2010.  I was unable to find a full grant disclosure for the National Breast Cancer Foundation on the internet and would be interested to hear from anyone who might have information about this organization as another possible alternative.  At least we have learned a lesson from this unfortunate incident.  Even the most virtuous sounding charities must be carefully vetted before we send them our hard earned dollars.