Susan G Komen and Planned Parenthood: Cancer donors are now required to fund family planning?
I think I’m pro-choice. Never been in the situation to have to make the decision so I can’t be certain; and I’m not married so I can’t take an easy pro-life stance. And I never had a problem with Planned Parenthood’s mission and activities. I can definitely see why pro-lifers don’t want to go to PP even if only 3% of the budget goes to abortion (and be real activists, you can’t say government funding doesn’t benefit abortions because it does by freeing up other capital). In general, I’m not a fan of government funding charities- I think the charities can earn enough from donors who believe in their individual causes. From a logical standpoint, no one should be required to give money to anything they don’t believe in, but that’s probably more about tax reform and government spending allocations. My problem is that SGK bowed down to bullying and that’s sad. SGK is breast cancer research, advocacy, and education. PP is family planning and reproductive health. Why should one charity be REQUIRED to grant money to another charity? And why should they be vilified for choosing to allocate their money elsewhere no matter the reason. SGK earned their money. I’m not an expert on this stuff, but with just some cursory research it appears that in the 2009-2010 fiscal year, SGK reported earnings of $400 million. Of that, $365 million was earned through public donations and sponsorships while the remainder was earned from dividends and interest on investments. At the same time, PP had a budget of over $1 billion (!!) with about $360 million coming from the government. Why can’t PP go out and earn all their money through donations? Why do they have to rely on tax payers? Why don’t they earn the money by getting donations from all the activists out there who so adamantly demand the government keep supporting them? I mean, they DO have 100,000 donors in their network. SGK’s grant last year to PP was $680,000- small portion of PP income but based on budget numbers, a bigger impact percentage-wise on SGK’s bottom line. So why do they also have to RELY on money from smaller charities who are trying to cure different issues? What we have here is Planned Parenthood running a smear campaign and bullying a smaller organization who EARNS their money in innovative ways. And then all the pro-choice activists jump on a bandwagon and condemn the SGK decision as right wing chicanery. In my mind, SGK made a decision to do something different with THEIR donor monies while also staying inside the scope of their cancer cure mission. But they caved to activist pressure. Now not only are the tax payers having to fund PP, but now the people who want to support breast cancer research have to support PP as well? Come on Planned Parenthood! Go out and earn your money by generating public donations from all your supporters! I’m sure $680,000 could have done some good things for SGK’s cure for cancer. It just doesn’t make sense to me; and Planned Parenthood is looking less and less like a good organization to me and more and more like a ruthless power monger who have no remorse for harming other worthwhile charities to get to their end goal. While I like PP’s mission, I don’t like their entitlement attitude and I definitely don’t like their greed. I’m also not much of a fan of their activists’ inability to see things from the pro-lifers viewpoint. If everyone out there could look at things from both sides of the fence, I imagine there would be a lot more progress in the social issues. So that’s just my two cents. Good luck to Susan G Komen for the Cure. Visit http://www.jetrequest.com to learn more about supporting the Corporate Angel Network as well. Disclaimer: Article submitters are solely responsible for the content of their articles. ArtiLib can't be held liable for the contents of the articles. Report Abuse | Browse By Category |
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