Pursuant to an earlier post a few days ago (“Why I’m Opposed to the Environment”), I am once again struck by the depth of my naivete. In this morning’s headlines, I discovered that the huge pink-ribbon charity for breast cancer research (the Komen Foundation) has been in partnership with Planned Parenthood all along. It turns out that donations made to breast cancer research have been going to Planned Parenthood in the form of grants.
Obviously, I shouldn’t have been surprised, therefore, by the silence about the strong link between abortion and breast cancer. It wasn’t the link that bothered me—that’s not surprising—it was the charity’s silence about it. Now I know why no one ever mentioned it.
The headline says that the Komen Foundation has severed its partnership with PP (a partnership we didn’t know existed until now). The Foundation claims its action was caused by a “conservative” congressman’s investigation of PP’s public funding. Meanwhile, PP blames “conservative” pro-lifers for the Foundation’s decision. A heart-rending quote from a PP spokesman implies that the lack of a cure for breast cancer is the fault of “conservatives”. It apparently doesn’t occur to anyone to blame abortion for its breast-cancer consequences—the only authentic non-political, non-financial cause and effect relationship in the whole story—and the only one still not mentioned by anybody.
Dear Titus,
perhaps I’m the only one who was naive. I only knew about the connection between abortion and breast cancer and wondered why the research foundation never mentioned it. Now I know.
Lots of people have been on Komen’s case about this for several years now. It’s not something they’ve been plastering on their press releases, but Komen’s relationship with PP has been widely reported among Catholic outlets in the past.
This is sick.
And yet I’m not surprised.
Oh, and PP’s blame game, you’ve got to be kidding me right? Yeah, there is no cure because of us. Idiots.
Well I just saw the news, the Komen foundation, under pressure from the left, backed off it’s reversal.
So looks like they are still big supporters of PP.
At least everyone knows it now.
Dear R.C.,
I agree: “At least everyone knows it now.” How much that will matter, who knows?