"We wish to apologize to the American accessible for contempo decisions that casting agnosticism aloft our charge to our mission of extenuative women's lives," the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation said in a statement. "We will abide to armamentarium absolute grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and bottle their accommodation to administer for approaching grants, while advancement the adeptness of our affiliates to accomplish allotment decisions that accommodated the needs of their communities."
The group's beforehand accommodation not to renew allotment of its longstanding affiliation with Planned Parenthood, which operates hundreds of ancestors clinics that accomplish abortions, triggered able affections beyond the country. It affronted argument even from some of its own affiliates.
In Washington, 26 Senate Democrats had active a letter calling on Komen to reconsider. New York City Agent Michael Bloomberg, a longtime Planned Parenthood supporter, apprenticed $250,000 in analogous grants to advice accomplish up for the accident in funding.
"Politics accept no abode in bloom care," the agent said. "Breast blight screening saves lives, and hundreds of bags of women await on Planned Parenthood for admission to care. We should be allowance women admission that care, not agreement barriers in their way."
Bloomberg's allowance came on top of $400,000 that Planned Parenthood arise adopting online from 6,000 donors the aboriginal 24 hours afterwards the antecedent announcement.
Still, added assembly bidding their annoyance over Friday's announcement.
"I am acutely aghast in the abrupt changeabout by the Komen foundation of their aboriginal agreement to cut ties with Planned Parenthood - the nation's bigger aborticide provider," said Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers. "Their aboriginal attitude to stop allotment awaiting an important aldermanic analysis was an act of adventuresomeness and prudence, authoritative their abrupt changeabout today arise alveolate and weak."
CREDO, which describes itself as the bigger accumulated donor to Planned Parenthood, said Thursday that 250,000 of its associates had active a address advancement the Komen Foundation to about-face its decision.
"The (earlier) move is acutely affiliated to attempts by Republicans in Congress to defund Planned Parenthood," the alignment said in a statement. "In responding to questions about its decision, the foundation cited as its account a adulterated 'investigation' into Planned Parenthood launched by Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns," who the accumulation alleged "one of the a lot of active anti-choice associates of Congress."
In September, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, on which the Florida agent sits, began an analysis into Planned Parenthood over the organization's "compliance with federal restrictions on allotment abortions."
The accumulation said Tuesday that the Komen foundation had "succumbed to political pressure" by acid its allotment for breast blight screenings amidst added analysis by Congress over how Planned Parenthood provides aborticide services.
But the American Life League said in a account that the foundation's accommodation was justified.
Planned Parenthood "is currently the focus of a aldermanic investigation, and assorted affiliates are beneath accompaniment investigations," it said. "Planned Parenthood agents are lashing out at Komen beyond the Internet and throughout the media, in what appears to be a accommodating accomplishment to acrylic Komen's action as afraid and politically motivated."
The Komen foundation had aswell denied that its accommodation stemmed from politics.
"We've consistently had the appropriate to abolish affairs for organizations that came beneath analysis for abeyant wrongdoing," said Nancy Brinker, CEO and architect of the group. In all, grants were not renewed to 16 of 19 Planned Parenthood clinics, she said. "We don't abject our allotment decisions on affections or backroom or whether one ancillary or addition will be pleased."
Brinker was a political appointee of the George W. Bush administration, in which she served as U.S. agent to Hungary and as arch of protocol. Susan G. Komen was Brinker's sister.
Komen Foundation President Liz Thompson said the funds would accept been redirected "to added programs in our communities that can accommodate these casework added directly."
She said there was "amazing consensus" a allotment of foundation lath associates about the decision, which was fabricated "over the bigger allotment of two years."
That accord did not cover Dr. Kathy Plesser, a affiliate of the foundation's medical advising lath in New York, who had apprenticed to abandon if the accommodation was not overturned.
"I cannot as a physician and apostle for women's bloom abide to be a allotment of the alignment if it continues in this direction," Plesser said. "A big allotment of what Komen does is ability underserved communities of women. With this (earlier) decision, they're not active up to this mission."
Mollie Williams, the group's managing administrator of association bloom programs, larboard Komen this month.
"It was an account to baby-sit and aggrandize their accessible bloom efforts during my six years there," Williams said. "At the aforementioned time, I account the plan of Planned Parenthood, including their lifesaving efforts to ascertain blight in its ancient stages. The bisect amid these two actual important organizations saddens me."
It wasn't anon bright whether she had resigned. Thompson said it's action not to absolution advice about advisers added than alpha and end dates.
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