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		<title>Was Komen&#8217;s Planned Parenthood Pullout Because of Catholic Guilt or ObamaCare Politics?</title>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:30:23 -0400</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Drew Grant</dc:creator>
				
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_217631" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 323px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-217631" href="http://www.observer.com/2012/02/was-komens-planned-parenthood-pullout-because-of-catholic-guilt-or-pregnancy-politics/nancy/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-217631" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/nancy.jpg?w=400&h=292" alt="" width="313" height="228" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Nancy Brinker&#039;s "Straight Talk" video about cutting off Planned Parenthood funds</p></div></p>
<p>Ladies are such a handful...am I right fellas? They are always complaining about their friends being mean, and it's like, if Cynthia is so awful, why do you still hang out with her?</p>
<p>And then your girlfriend goes, "Oh, you just don't <em>understand</em>."</p>
<p>It's the same with members of the nonprofit Planned Parenthood getting all upset because one of its biggest donors--the breast cancer foundation Susan G. Komen for the Cure--<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/01/BAF51N1JUV.DTL&amp;type=science">is cutting off their funding</a>. (Since as everyone knows, Planned Parenthood is where teenagers go to get abortions and breast cancer.)</p>
<p>But why take away the money now after 6 years of donations, <a href="http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2012/02/dallas-based_komen_foundation.php">the last of which equaled $700k</a> in grant funding?<br />
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It <em>must</em> be all the political pressure. See, everyone thinks that the world's leading breast cancer foundation is cutting off Planned Parenthood (where they traditionally paid for preventative screenings) <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/susan-g-komen-foundation-defunds-planned-parenthood/2012/01/31/gIQAACW0fQ_blog.html">because the organization was under congressional investigation</a>; with Democrats and Republicans using the women's care facilities as a stand-in for every reproductive rights issue on the table, Congressman Chris Sterns has made it his mission to "investigate" Planned Parenthood.</p>
<p>Of course, the issue may be more personal, as the leader of Planned Parenthood is Democrat activist <strong>Cecile Richards</strong>, while the founder of Komen for the Cure is <strong>Nancy Brinker</strong>, who along with her former husband Norman Brinker were two of Ohio's biggest GOP donors. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/komens-planned-parenthood-decision-all-about-politics/2012/02/01/gIQAJS1xhQ_blog.html">And it's an election year</a>, which again, has the party lines divided along the health care debate harder than its ever been.</p>
<p>Another clue could be found back in October,<a href="http://ncronline.org/news/politics/dioceses-question-major-breast-cancer-nonprofit">when a dozen or so Catholic church dioceses</a> openly voiced their discontent for Komen's life-saving charity. One of the reasons they gave (besides the group not being theoretically opposed to stem cell research) was the money going to Planned Parenthood.</p>
<p>And wouldn't you know it, the same day Komen announced its plan to stop giving grant money to the organization, Planned Parenthood put out a national ad condemning the Catholic church for picking on President Obama for his new mandate of contraceptives in his health care plan.<br />
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<p>For extra credit, here is Ms. Brinker <a href="http://www.chausa.org/Pages/Newsroom/Current_Photos/2009_Catholic_Health_Assembly/">in 2009 at the Catholic Heath Care Assembly</a>!</p>
<p>‎Late yesterday evening, Ms. Brinker released this video on the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/susangkomenforthecure">Komen Facebook page</a>, reiterating that the decision to remove funding from Planned Parenthood had nothing to do with abortions, religion, or politics:<br />
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<p>That's almost as unbelievable as the fact that Komen for the Cure actually donated to Planned Parenthood for this long without caving in to pressure from conservative donors and finger-wagging church officials.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_217631" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 323px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-217631" href="http://www.observer.com/2012/02/was-komens-planned-parenthood-pullout-because-of-catholic-guilt-or-pregnancy-politics/nancy/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-217631" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/nancy.jpg?w=400&h=292" alt="" width="313" height="228" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Nancy Brinker&#039;s "Straight Talk" video about cutting off Planned Parenthood funds</p></div></p>
<p>Ladies are such a handful...am I right fellas? They are always complaining about their friends being mean, and it's like, if Cynthia is so awful, why do you still hang out with her?</p>
<p>And then your girlfriend goes, "Oh, you just don't <em>understand</em>."</p>
<p>It's the same with members of the nonprofit Planned Parenthood getting all upset because one of its biggest donors--the breast cancer foundation Susan G. Komen for the Cure--<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/01/BAF51N1JUV.DTL&amp;type=science">is cutting off their funding</a>. (Since as everyone knows, Planned Parenthood is where teenagers go to get abortions and breast cancer.)</p>
<p>But why take away the money now after 6 years of donations, <a href="http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2012/02/dallas-based_komen_foundation.php">the last of which equaled $700k</a> in grant funding?<br />
<!--more--><br />
It <em>must</em> be all the political pressure. See, everyone thinks that the world's leading breast cancer foundation is cutting off Planned Parenthood (where they traditionally paid for preventative screenings) <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/susan-g-komen-foundation-defunds-planned-parenthood/2012/01/31/gIQAACW0fQ_blog.html">because the organization was under congressional investigation</a>; with Democrats and Republicans using the women's care facilities as a stand-in for every reproductive rights issue on the table, Congressman Chris Sterns has made it his mission to "investigate" Planned Parenthood.</p>
<p>Of course, the issue may be more personal, as the leader of Planned Parenthood is Democrat activist <strong>Cecile Richards</strong>, while the founder of Komen for the Cure is <strong>Nancy Brinker</strong>, who along with her former husband Norman Brinker were two of Ohio's biggest GOP donors. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/komens-planned-parenthood-decision-all-about-politics/2012/02/01/gIQAJS1xhQ_blog.html">And it's an election year</a>, which again, has the party lines divided along the health care debate harder than its ever been.</p>
<p>Another clue could be found back in October,<a href="http://ncronline.org/news/politics/dioceses-question-major-breast-cancer-nonprofit">when a dozen or so Catholic church dioceses</a> openly voiced their discontent for Komen's life-saving charity. One of the reasons they gave (besides the group not being theoretically opposed to stem cell research) was the money going to Planned Parenthood.</p>
<p>And wouldn't you know it, the same day Komen announced its plan to stop giving grant money to the organization, Planned Parenthood put out a national ad condemning the Catholic church for picking on President Obama for his new mandate of contraceptives in his health care plan.<br />
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<p>For extra credit, here is Ms. Brinker <a href="http://www.chausa.org/Pages/Newsroom/Current_Photos/2009_Catholic_Health_Assembly/">in 2009 at the Catholic Heath Care Assembly</a>!</p>
<p>‎Late yesterday evening, Ms. Brinker released this video on the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/susangkomenforthecure">Komen Facebook page</a>, reiterating that the decision to remove funding from Planned Parenthood had nothing to do with abortions, religion, or politics:<br />
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<p>That's almost as unbelievable as the fact that Komen for the Cure actually donated to Planned Parenthood for this long without caving in to pressure from conservative donors and finger-wagging church officials.</p>
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