Arches komen Foundation to firestorm of social media reverses Planned Parenthood funding cut

Arches komen Foundation to firestorm of social media reverses Planned Parenthood funding cut: The breast blight advancement alignment that acclimated the Internet to activate fundraising walks civic backed off Friday from its accommodation to annihilate grants for Planned Parenthood afterwards abounding of its supporters afire an online firestorm of protest.

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation caved to the pressure. It appear that it would acquiesce Planned Parenthood to abide applying for breast blight screening grants.

The foundation gave the accumulation $680,000 endure year.

"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," a Komen account said.

Many questioned that charge four canicule ago if Komen said it would exclude Planned Parenthood from grants because the alignment had appear beneath a government investigation. It cited an analysis by a Florida agent apprenticed on by anti-abortion groups.

"We will alter the belief to accomplish bright that disqualifying investigations accept to be bent and absolute in attributes and not political," Komen said Friday.

All seven of California's Susan G. Komen affiliates against the group's antecedent decision. So did 26 U.S. senators and abounding newspapers.

The better access may accept been the deluge of criticism fabricated through Twitter, Facebook and added amusing media. The accelerating accumulation MoveOn.org launched an online address acknowledging the grants and said 60,000

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people active it aural hours.

Some of the sharpest criticism came from participants in Komen's account walks.

"I feel Susan G. Komen acted absurdly and hastily, and maybe they didn't apprehend the ability of the Internet," said Teresa Tirado, of Castro Valley, whose earlier babe has aloft funds for the alignment in its Walk for the Cure.

"It's about like Occupy Susan G. Komen," she said.

Tirado, who acclaimed that she has donated a ample bulk of money to Komen, abstruse of its accommodation through Facebook. She acquaint comments on her Facebook page.

"I was absolutely upset, forth with many, abounding added humans -- both macho and female," she said.

She was admiring with Friday's about-face, but said it's not simple "to absolve and forget."

"It doesn't accomplish me feel that all of a abrupt Susan G. Komen has this huge heart," she said. "No. It makes me apprehend it's affecting their pocketbook, and that's why the accommodation was made."

Conservatives and anti-abortion groups had accurate the aboriginal accommodation and were black about Friday's development.

A U.S. agent said he was acutely disappointed.

"Unfortunately, it seems that Komen caved to political burden from the pro-abortion movement and enforcers in the media," Sen. David Vitter, R-La., wrote in a account to The Washington Post.

The abyss of the civic access is not hasty in ablaze of the abounding humans affected by breast cancer, said Joanne Bamberger, the Washington, D.C.-based columnist of "Mothers of Intention: How Women and Amusing Media are Revolutionizing Politics in America."

"This is so claimed to so abounding people, and application the accoutrement of amusing media is so easy," she said. "That absolutely just lit the blaze beneath it.

"How abounding humans do you apperceive or I apperceive who accept done the Walk for the Cure because they accept a mother or sister who had the disease?" she said.

The arrangement of supporters Komen organized became an accountability tool, acclaimed Jamia Wilson, a carnality admiral of programs for the Women's Media Center in New York and a above Planned Parenthood agents member.

"Because the accoutrement are so alternate -- consistently getting a allotment of the chat -- it makes it so humans accept a abundant easier and quicker befalling to anatomy an opinion," Wilson said.

With so abounding humans bartering advice through amusing media, however, it added the achievability of inaccuracies and misunderstandings, said Maria Sousa, controlling administrator of Komen's Bay Area affiliate.

She afraid that the altercation could affect the Walk for the Cure in September. She said that she hopes humans apprehend the alignment will still abutment casework for low-income women.

The altercation unleashed a flood of banking donations, leaders on both abandon reported.

Planned Parenthood said it aloft $650,000 in the 24 hours afterwards the account broke. Komen leaders said its donations were up "100 percent," but beneath to accord specifics.

At centers in the Shasta Pacific affiliate of Planned Parenthood, which covers 17 counties including Contra Costa and Solano, humans absolved in this anniversary and delivered checks for several hundred dollars each, said admiral and CEO Heather Estes. She would not appraisal the absolute raised.

Estes acclaimed that one in 5 women civic accept acclimated Planned Parenthood casework in their lives.

"Women bloom affliction advocates, decidedly breast blight survivors, accept abstruse that they charge to allege up for what's important," she said.

On Friday, Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein and Reps. Jackie Speier and Mike Honda, a part of others, accepted Komen's reversal.

"The altercation acquired by the aboriginal Komen accommodation did not reflect able-bodied on the foundation's absolute work," Feinstein said in a statement.

"This is a achievement for women's bloom and a huge win for all the men and women who fabricated their choir heard this week."

Komen Foundation reverses the decision of financing of Planned Parenthood

Komen Foundation reverses the decision of financing of Planned Parenthood:  Faced with a deluge of action that included burden from assembly and centralized dissent, one of America's arch breast blight advancement groups on Friday antipodal itself on a accommodation that would accept cut off allotment to some Planned Parenthood projects.

"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.

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.

Susan g. Komen cuts ties with Planned Parenthood

Susan g. Komen cuts ties with Planned Parenthood:  Planned Parenthood and Susan G. Komen for the Cure, two iconic organizations that accept assisted millions of women for years, are no best partners. The nation's arch breast-cancer alms burst its ties with Planned Parenthood affiliates.

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Why? Many doubtable the blow is affiliated to the aborticide debate. Komen has been beneath blaze by anti-abortion activists, afterwards its affiliation to the pro-choice alignment was publicized.

Komen says the key acumen is that Planned Parenthood is beneath analysis in Congress - a delving launched by a bourgeois Republican who was apprenticed to act by anti-abortion groups. Komen backer Leslie Aun said the alms afresh adopted belief barring grants to organizations that are beneath analysis by local, accompaniment or federal authorities.

The bisect is abstraction for some of those who've abstruse about it and adore both organizations.

"We're affectionate of reeling," said Patrick Hurd, who is CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Virginia - almsman of a 2010 admission from Komen - and whose wife, Betsi, is a adept of several Komen fundraising contest and is currently aggressive breast cancer.

"It sounds about trite, traveling through this with Betsi, but blight doesn't affliction if you're pro-choice, anti-choice, progressive, conservative," Hurd said. "Victims of blight could affliction beneath about people's politics."

Planned Parenthood said the Komen grants totaled almost $680,000 endure year and $580,000 the year before, traveling to at atomic 19 of its affiliates for breast-cancer screening and added breast-health services.

"It's harder to accept how an alignment with whom we allotment a mission of extenuative women's lives could accept angled to this affectionate of bullying," Cecile Richards, admiral of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, told The Associated Press. "It's absolutely hurtful."

Anti-abortion groups, in contrast, accustomed the news. The Alliance Defense Fund accepted Komen "for seeing the bucking amid its lifesaving plan and its accord with an abortionist that has concluded millions of lives."

"While it is afflictive if changes in priorities and behavior affect any of our grantees, such as a abiding accomplice like Planned Parenthood, we accept to abide to beforehand to best accommodated the needs of the women we serve and a lot of absolutely beforehand our mission," said a account issued by Komen Tuesday.

Planned Parenthood has over 800 bloom centers civic and is the better provider of abortions in the U.S. It provides an arrangement of added casework as well, including blight screening - according to Planned Parenthood, its centers performed added than 4 actor breast exams over the accomplished 5 years, including about 170,000 as a aftereffect of Komen grants.

Komen, founded in 1982, has invested added than $1.9 billion back again in breast-cancer research, bloom casework and advocacy. Its Race for the Cure fundraising contest accept become a all-around phenomenon. Still, Komen has been a ambition of anti-abortion groups back it began its partnerships with Planned Parenthood in 2005. A lot of recently, in December, Lifeway Christian Resources, the publishing analysis of the Southern Baptist Convention appear a anamnesis of blush Bibles it had awash because some of the money generated for Komen was getting baffled to Planned Parenthood, HealthPop reported.

Aun, in a blast interview, said Komen was not accusing Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing.

"We wish to advance a absolute accord with them," she said. "We're not authoritative any judgment."

Stephanie Kight, a carnality admiral with Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties, said her conversations with bounded Komen leaders adumbrated there was a aggregate faculty of annoyance over the civic Komen decision.

"One of the things these organizations allotment is the assurance of women beyond the United States," Kight said. "That's what we're anxious about - not accident the assurance of these women, who about-face to both of us at their a lot of difficult moments."

Don Cornelius ' Soul Train ' 75 dies in likely suicide

Don Cornelius, the architect and host of "Soul Train," the television appearance that brought R&B music and the moves of adolescent atramentous dancers to a U.S. audience, has died in an credible suicide. He was 75.

Officers responding to a address of a cutting begin him at his Mulholland Drive home at about 4 a.m., Los Angeles badge told the Associated Press. He was arresting asleep of a self- inflicted gunshot anguish at 4:56 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles County Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter told AP. The amateur was afresh divorced, the Los Angeles Times said.

Cornelius was a part-time account anchorperson on AM radio in Chicago if he larboard to actualize "Soul Train" in 1970. From its bounded alpha on Chicago's WCIU-TV, the appearance generated a civic adaptation based in Los Angeles that grew through alliance to added than 130 stations in 1989, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Like its pop music counterpart, Dick Clark's "American Bandstand," Cornelius's "Soul Train" became a accoutrement of Saturday-morning television.

"'Soul Train' was a new idea," Cornelius told United Press International in 1984. "It was special-market television in a accepted admirers average afore cable came along. It was actual difficult to attempt and survive out there. We took the 'Bandstand' architecture and gave it addition look, created addition character. We accept white viewers, of course, but it wasn't applied to advertise the appearance in areas of low atramentous population. Some of our sponsors were absolutely searching for the atramentous audience."

Franklin, Jackson, Wonder

Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, James Brown, Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson were a part of the atramentous artists who appeared on "Soul Train." In 1974, Elton John became the aboriginal white artisan to arise on the show, according to Rickey Vincent's 1996 book, "Funk: The Music, the People and the Rhythm of the One."

"Dance shows aren't new, of course," the radio host and analyst Clayton Riley wrote in the New York Times in 1973. "But if you're into comparisons, 'Soul Train' is to the old 'American Bandstand' what albino is to seltzer water."

Vincent alleged "Soul Train" the "most undiluted advertise of atramentous female in the country" and "a cultural mecca for the absolute decade of the 70s."

Expanding his franchise, Cornelius created the anniversary Soul Train Music Awards in 1987.