Susan G. Komen Foundation withdraws PP Support

Yesterday, we learned that the Susan G.  Komen Foundation (SGK) withdrew financial support it has customarily given to Planned Parenthood (PP), not for abortions, but for breast exams and other diagnostic procedures that PP has provided or otherwise procured for many women over the past decades.

Via some comments on my Facebook posts commending SGK's action, I make the following response:

One chief opposition to the action, which is stated in the LA Times article on the same subject is that early diagnostic services were provided by Planned Parenthood with the Susan G. Komen Foundation's support, and that their withdrawal of that funding will now retract those services from people in dire need.

On the other hand, Planned Parenthood is not the sole provider of these services, and it is quite conceivable that, as it is consistent with Komen's mission, this funding will not buy staplers and paper clips in the wake of this action, but go toward providing the same services through organizations that do not also participate in such morally offensive activity in addition to this good and prudent service.

Planned Parenthood's entire system participates and realizes eugenics, arbitrary choice of life and death exerted over parties without a voice, and encourages promiscuous behavior that threatens emotional health as well as physical health of individuals and society as a whole, threatening the institution of the family by encouraging non-marital and extra-marital relations, and the list goes on. It is an entire philosophy (or misosophy?) that is both novel (at least within the 20th century compared to millenia prior, though instances of infanticide and contraception are seen into ancient times and documented in the bible) and pervasively effective in the corruption of the conscience of "developed nations" and, by the reality that people look to us as an example of prosperity and "progress," the whole human race.

While the SGK Foundation's action will stir up congratulations among pro-life activists, Planned Parenthood's staunch supporters will also rally around its mission and this misstated pity plea. An organization oriented to the real devaluation of the human person should not be left to stand, and any action that hinders its ability to function is commendable.

This action follows upon the lively debate over state-procured healthcare and whether individual providers can refuse certain services at will or whether they are obligated to provide them.

I read a sad quote from a Planned Parenthood employee/collaborator who wondered what they would do instead of participating in their annual SGK walk. How ridiculous that this individual would rather boycott a public demonstration of the pursuit of the cure for breast cancer than consider the mission and values of her own favored organization, whose other activities actually increase risk factors for that cancer and fuel the need for a cure!

For a profound and very real presentation about how flawed the pro-choice and pro-abortion mentality is, please view the 33-minute 180 Movie. In this production, two major ideas are presented: the reality that common language has been twisted to favor the legal and even moral permissibility for a woman to murder the child in her womb (neither of which should be the case), and the reality that so many people have accepted this co-opted language without a second thought, not realizing what they have allowed.

There may be money in abortion and pornography, in fact, tens of billions of dollars flow into these industries annually, but is there happiness and interior peace? And are these not the deepest desires of human persons, and are they not so firmly asserted in the Declaration of Independence?



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