Planned Parenthood Gets Boost from image on win Komen

Planned Parenthood Gets Boost from image on win Komen:  Planned Parenthood has been beneath annoy for a year, but in three canicule it managed to adapt its arguable angel acknowledgment to a action with Susan G. Komen.

When House Republicans voted to defund Planned Parenthood a year ago, the accepted suspects came to the group’s aid, like liberals and Democrats in Congress.

But if Komen appear endure anniversary it planned to cull grants for breast blight screenings, they got an abrupt response: the Internet exploded with bags of affronted supporters and others who gave the accumulation $3 million.

Komen afflicted advance Friday and Planned Parenthood claimed a win on an important antecedent of ability in Washington — angry, organized voters.

“I achievement that there are associates of Congress who will re-think their attacks not alone on Planned Parenthood and on women’s health, but absolutely anticipate about the accent of accouterment antitoxin affliction for women in America, and decidedly those women who accept boilerplate abroad to turn,” Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards told reporters Friday. “Bullying and aggravating to accomplish political women’s admission to bloom affliction is just a accident political strategy.”

It’s not bright what furnishings the Komen action will accept on Planned Parenthood allotment traveling advanced – the administrator whose analysis spurred the Komen move, Rep. Cliff Stearns, has showed no assurance of abetment down. And bourgeois presidential candidates like Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum accept both teed off on the reversal.

Democratic pollster Celinda Lake said Planned Parenthood has added political advantage than it did a anniversary ago.

“Any baby-kisser that has been advancing Planned Parenthood I anticipate is traveling to accept additional thoughts now,” she said. “You can’t put this bogie aback in the bottle.”

Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.), the aboriginal administrator to accuse Komen’s decision, lamented that the action became political.

“On the Hill, abominably it becomes a accessory action and it shouldn’t be,” the California Democrat said. Honda is circulating a letter acknowledging Komen’s reversal.

Even abstinent assembly went on the almanac advancing Komen’s antecedent move. Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who’s adverse a boxy re-election action this fall, forth with Democratic Sens. Mark Begich of Alaska, Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Max Baucus of Montana active a letter to CEO, Nancy Brinker Thursday accusatory the accommodation to carve funds, forth with abounding advanced Democrats.

Susan g. Komen for the Cure has long been under pressure

Susan g. Komen for the Cure has long been under pressure:  By Karen Kaplan, Shari Roan and Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times

February 3, 2012, 6:00 p.m.

As a boyhood women's bloom activist, Eve Sanchez Silver was appreciative of her plan with Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The alignment had about alone angry breast blight acquaintance into a civic cause, with its blush ribbons actualization on tote bags, containers of yogurt and even NFL football fields.

But in 2004, she abstruse that some of the group's bounded capacity gave money to Planned Parenthood affiliates to pay for breast exams for low-income women. Silver couldn't advice activity that the added money Planned Parenthood had, the added abortions its clinics could perform.

By the end of the year, she had accommodated from Komen's Hispanic-Latino Advisory Committee and begin a new mission: burden Komen to cut all banking ties to Planned Parenthood.

"You cannot be a life-affirming alignment in alliance with an alignment that kills people," Silver said.

So began a slow-growing abysm amid two pillars of women's bloom that culminated in a absolute aperture this anniversary if it became accepted that Komen had absitively to stop allotment about $650,000 in breast-health casework at 16 Planned Parenthood affiliates. On Friday, in the face of cutting accessible pressure, Komen antipodal itself.

But it may accept appear too backward to cull the admirable breast blight alignment out of the polarizing civic agitation about abortion.

Komen architect and arch controlling Nancy Brinker insisted Friday that the foundation's new rules preventing grants to groups that were accountable to government investigations had not been advised to ambition Planned Parenthood and had annihilation to do with its role as an aborticide provider. "We do not wish our mission bedridden or afflicted by backroom — anyone's politics," Brinker said in a statement.

By then, a key administrator at its Dallas address had resigned, and others in the group's bounded affiliates had threatened to chase clothing if the accommodation was not reversed. Associates of Congress admonished the foundation for arena backroom with women's health. Irate women denounced Komen on the Internet and apprenticed to abstain its accessible "Race for the Cure" events, which accession several actor dollars anniversary year.

The bearings has been a "total embarrassment" for Komen, said Tom Madden, arch controlling of TransMedia Group, a Boca Raton, Fla.-based accessible relations and crisis administration company. "I can't accept an alignment like Komen wasn't acquainted of what was traveling on."

There had been aboriginal signs that Komen admiral accomplished their new attitude against Planned Parenthood could aftereffect in a accessible backlash.

The address fabricated no advertisement of its accommodation backward endure year to change its allotment rules. It relied on its bounded affiliates to acquaint the Planned Parenthood capacity they adjourned that its grant-making belief had changed.

Over the endure few weeks, admiral at Planned Parenthood's New York City address accustomed chat from assorted affiliates that their Komen grants would not be renewed. At that point, Cecile Richards, admiral of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, approved a affair with Komen admiral but was rebuffed, said backer Shawn Rhea.

Instead, Komen issued a account that it would no best accord money to organizations that were beneath government investigation. As a result, Komen said Planned Parenthood was no best acceptable to accept funds because it was the accountable of an analysis launched by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) to actuate whether the clinics had acclimated accessible money to armamentarium abortions, which is banned by law. Such an analysis is not a academic aldermanic investigation.

Supporters of Planned Parenthood — including dozens of associates of Congress — cried foul. In a letter to colleagues, Rep.Michael M. Honda(D-San Jose) alleged the Stearns analysis a "sham investigation" that was "politically motivated.... The actuality that the Komen Foundation is application this analysis as the base for its accommodation is distressing."

In fact, though, aborticide opponents had been putting the clasp on Komen for years. Silver's plan at an antiabortion accumulation alleged the International Coalition of Color for Life in Red Bank, N.J., and with agreeing activists was paying off.

Each year, the foundation's bounded affiliates sponsor added than 100 fundraising runs and walks about the country. In the weeks arch up to those events, some affiliates accept calls from antiabortion groups aggressive to abstain the contest and to stop acquaintance the businesses that sponsor them, said John Hammarley, a above chief communications adviser at Komen who was laid off endure year during a reorganization. (He says he harbors no ill will against Komen.)

Part of Hammarley's job was allowance bounded affiliates accord with the flare-ups. "The affair of Komen's captivation with Planned Parenthood was the individual advancing affair that acquired some controversy," he said. "It was an irritation: How abounding calls accept we gotten this month? How abounding humans are upset?"

Churches and schools with antiabortion behavior aswell fabricated a point of boycotting Race for the Cure events, abhorrent acceptance from basic teams, Silver said.

Eventually a baby accumulation of Komen staffers including Hammarley began discussing a action for managing the Planned Parenthood issue, allegory a amount of options including awkward all grants to Planned Parenthood, advancement the cachet quo or something in between, he said. After assessing how these alternatives could affect Komen and its affiliates, they recommended blockage the advance to abstain a backlash.

Supporters rally around to Planned Parenthood

Supporters rally around to Planned Parenthood:  New York: Supporters are ambulatory about Planned Parenthood afterwards acclaimed breast blight alms Susan G. Komen for the Cure absitively to cut breast screening grants to the changeable bloom organization.

Besides $400,000 in abate donations from 6,000 people, Planned Parenthood is accepting $250,000 from a ancestors foundation in Dallas and a $250,000 agreement appear Thursday by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to bout approaching donations.

In Washington, 26 U.S. senators — all Democrats except for absolute Bernie Sanders of Vermont — active a letter calling on Komen to amend its decision.

"It would be adverse if any woman — let abandoned bags of women — absent admission to these potentially lifesaving screenings because of a politically motivated attack," the senators wrote.

According to Planned Parenthood, its bloom centers performed added than 4 actor breast exams over the accomplished 5 years, including about 170,000 as a aftereffect of Komen grants.

Komen, meanwhile, has been deluged with abrogating emails and Facebook postings, accusing it of knuckling beneath to burden from anti-abortion groups, back The Associated Press appear on Tuesday that the alms was awkward grants that Planned Parenthood affiliates acclimated for breast exams and accompanying services. The grants totaled $680,000 endure year.

Some of Komen`s bounded affiliates were aboveboard upset, including all seven in California, and at atomic one top official has quit, reportedly in protest.

Komen`s top leaders, in their aboriginal annual appointment back the altercation erupted, denied Planned Parenthood`s affirmation that the accommodation was apprenticed by burden from anti-abortion groups.

"We don`t abject our allotment decisions ... on whether one ancillary or the added will be pleased," said Komen`s architect and CEO, Nancy Brinker, depicting the criticism as a mischaracterization of the charity`s goals and mission.

Komen has said the accommodation stemmed from anew adopted belief barring grants to organizations beneath analysis — affecting Planned Parenthood because of an analysis by a Republican agent acting with advance from anti-abortion activists.

Brinker said Thursday there were added factors, conspicuously changes in the types of breast-health annual providers it capital to support. But she said grants would abide this year to three of the 19 Planned Parenthood affiliates — in Denver, California`s Orange County, and Waco, Texas — because they served audience with few added breast-screening options.

A antecedent with absolute ability of controlling at Komen`s address in Dallas gave a altered account, adage the grant-making belief were adopted with the advised ambition of targeting Planned Parenthood. The criteria`s appulse on Planned Parenthood and its cachet as the focus of government investigations were accent in a announcement broadcast to Komen affiliates in December.

According to the source, who batten on action of anonymity for abhorrence of repercussions, a active force abaft the move was Karen Handel, who was assassin by Komen endure year as carnality admiral for accessible action afterwards accident a attack for governor in Georgia in which she fatigued her anti-abortion angle and frequently denounced Planned Parenthood.

Brinker, in an account with MSNBC, said Handel didn`t accept a cogent role in the action change.

The antecedent aswell said that Mollie Williams, who had been Komen`s administrator of association bloom programs, had accommodated in beef over the admission cutoff.

Williams, in an email, said she could not animadversion on her abandonment for affidavit of able confidentiality, but she was bright about her views.

"I accept committed my career to angry for the rights of the marginalized and underserved," she wrote. "And I accept it would be a aberration for any alignment to bow to political burden and accommodation its mission."

Williams said she was afflicted by the breach because she admired both Komen and Planned Parenthood.

"I am hopeful their amorous and adventuresome leaders, Nancy Brinker and Cecile Richards, can apace boldness this battle in a address that allowances the women they both serve."

Among Komen`s affiliates, there were bright signs of ache with the decision. The Connecticut annex accustomed array of admiring emails afterwards cogent annoyance about the cutoffs and acceptable will against Planned Parenthood.

All seven Komen affiliates in California, in a collective letter to their aldermanic delegation, said they were "strongly opposed" to the action change and were alive to annul it.

"Our charge to our mission is unwavering," the letter said. "This is a misstep in that adventure and ... we will do whatever it takes to do what is appropriate for the bloom of women and men in California."

In New York City, a associate of the Komen affiliate`s medical advising lath said she would abandon if the accommodation wasn`t afflicted soon.

"Komen is a admirable alignment and does amazing things for women, but this is abnormality from their mission," said Dr. Kathy Plesser, a radiologist. "It`s sad."

The lath of the Arkansas associate issued a account acquainted that the accommodation was fabricated at Komen address "without ascribe from affiliates," and alleged for the new action to be changed.

"We achievement Komen civic will about-face its position on acceding to organizations beneath analysis because we feel decisions of this attributes should be fabricated alone afterwards the analysis is complete," the account said.

At the Orange County associate in Costa Mesa, Calif., controlling administrator Lisa Wolter said there accept been lots of exchanges with headquarters.

"We`re actual afflicted by the reaction, and we wish to accomplish abiding there are clarifications," she said.

The American Association of University Women, in beef over Komen`s decision, said it was auctioning affairs to action a Komen Race for the Cure as one of the activities at its accessible Civic Appointment for College Women Student Leaders.

"AAUW is aghast that some are arena backroom with women`s bloom and jeopardizing affliction for the a lot of accessible a part of us," said Lisa Maatz, the association`s administrator of accessible policy.

Though comments acquaint on Komen`s Facebook page seemed to be mostly analytical of the admission decision, Brinker said at her annual appointment that donations to the alms had added back Tuesday.

She aswell said there were added organizations accepting Komen grants that ability be abnormally afflicted by the new belief about investigations, but she did not analyze them.

Susan g. Komen for the Cure founder defends decision Planned Parenthood

Susan g. Komen for the Cure founder defends decision Planned Parenthood:  As the backfire grew adjoin the accommodation by Susan G. Komen for the Curefoundation to cease application grants to Planned Parenthood, Komen admiral concluded two canicule of blackout on Thursday and approved to administer the uproar.

In a appointment alarm with the media, Komen architect and Chief Executive Nancy G. Brinker said the accommodation was due to action changes advised to advance how grantees are selected. It had annihilation to do with Planned Parenthood's position as an aborticide provider, she said.

"This has been a advancing issue," she added of the breach amid the two acclaimed women's bloom organizations. "Our position has been lost.... Our abandoned mission is to architecture treatments and cures for this ache and to yield affliction of women in charge of services."

But Brinker aswell appropriate that the Komen money ability be bigger spent elsewhere: "You accept to be abiding you are acceding to the appropriate people."

Brinker's account came as Komen asperous continuing after-effects of criticism from lawmakers, women's bloom advocates and accessible figures, and as donations caked in to both groups.

In a letter Thursday, a accumulation of 26 Democratic senators, including Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein of California, apprenticed Brinker to reconsider.

"It would be adverse if any woman — let abandoned bags of women — absent admission to these potentially lifesaving screenings because of a politically motivated attack," the senators wrote.

On Tuesday, Planned Parenthood appear that 19 of its affiliates would no best accept grants from the Komen foundation for breast bloom programs because of revamped belief barring new grants to groups beneath local, accompaniment or federal investigations. Planned Parenthood is beneath aldermanic analysis by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), who is searching into whether it acclimated federal allotment for aborticide services, which is not permitted.

Under Komen's new rules, organizations beneath analysis can't accept new funds until the amount is resolved.

"We've consistently had the appropriate to abolish contracts," Brinker said.

She added that three Planned Parenthood affiliates, including the one apery Orange and San Bernardino counties, will abide to accept Komen money because they accommodate casework that cannot be replaced through grants to addition alignment in their area.

Komen, a arch fundraiser for breast blight analysis best accepted for blush ribbons and its anniversary Race for the Cure, is aswell demography calefaction from some of its affiliate groups.

On Thursday, its seven California affiliates appear a account adage they were acerb against to the new action and were alive with civic address to boldness it:

"Affiliates will not blow until this affair is resolved.... What we accept accomplished and witnessed over the endure two canicule is an amazing akin of affection for these important issues to women.... We wish to assure all Californians that we will do whatever it takes to do what is appropriate for the bloom of women and men in California."

Other Komen affiliates acquaint statements on their Facebook pages, including postings analytical of Komen's move ("Please apperceive that we apprehend you & we acknowledge the annoyance that abounding of our Facebook followers are activity appropriate now.") or admiring of Komen ("Politics has annihilation to do with it and never will.... Recent letters about our allotment and Planned Parenthood are off base.").

Brinker would not affirm letters that the abandonment of Mollie Williams, the foundation's top accessible bloom official, was in protest. Williams could not be accomplished for comment.

The altercation has led to an admission of funds to both organizations.

Brinker said Komen's donations had risen 100% back Tuesday, and Planned Parenthood appear that it had already accustomed a ample allocation of the funds it bare to alter the accident of Komen grants. Among the Planned Parenthood donors was New York MayorMichael R. Bloomberg, who apprenticed to accord $1 for every new $1 donation fabricated to Planned Parenthood, up to $250,000.

Planned Parenthood affiliates will be chargeless to administer for approaching grants already the alignment is no best beneath investigation, Brinker said. But in any case, she said, its breast bloom programs may not be the best use of Komen funds.

Although women can accept analytic breast exams at Planned Parenthood clinics, patients are referred to added medical accessories for mammograms, biopsies and blight treatment, she noted, apropos to this archetypal as "pass-through" services.

"We attending at the superior of the grants," Brinker said. "We don't like to do pass-through grants anymore."

Planned Parenthood responded that patients referred out for mammograms or biopsies were still managed by the affiliate's doctors.

"We action the aforementioned kinds of casework a accommodating would be offered traveling to her clandestine OB-GYN," said Shawn Rhea, a Planned Parenthood spokeswoman.

"I'm sad," said Dr. Susan Love, admiral of the Santa Monica-based Dr. Susan Love Analysis Foundation, which appear a account aspersing the Komen move. "Whether you're pro-choice or pro-life, it doesn't absolutely amount because it's a abstracted issue. What Planned Parenthood is accomplishing is giving [referrals for] mammograms and [providing] breast exams — allowance women who don't accept admission to that care."

Love's sister-in-law, Tina, 45, visited Planned Parenthood for breast blight screening 5 years ago. Worried about a apprehensive breast lump, but after bloom insurance, the Santa Barbara-based absolute filmmaker had abandoned the accumulation until it grew larger. The agglomeration angry out to be cancerous.

Tina Love was advised and is now cancer-free. She said she ability never accept bent the blight at an aboriginal date had Planned Parenthood casework not been available.