The power of the people rules! Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced Friday its reversal of a decision made earlier this week to stop funding breast care grants to Planned Parenthood. As the most well-known charitable organization that deals with breast cancer, Susan G. Komen for the Cure came under immediate attack when it withdrew funding. The site was deluged with messages excoriating the decision, and social media sites were blanketed with negative posts.
Although Komen executives deny it, Planned Parenthood supporters, including local directors within Komen's ranks, say Komen had come under pressure from anti-abortion activists and caved in as a result. In a statement signed by its board of directors and its founder Nancy Brinker, Komen apologized to the American public Friday for casting doubt on their mission to provide breast screenings.. Komen will no longer bar organizations that are under government investigation from applying for grants. Thus, Planned Parenthood, facing a House probe over whether it has used federal funds to pay for abortions, again has eligibility for Komen grants.
Ham on Wry applauds Komen for its return to its mission focus. Radicals have too long forced capitulation to their agendas, and the people of America have finally found their voice. Most citizens fall somewhere in the center of a scale with radical conservatives on one end and radical liberals on the other. Citizens can no longer afford to stay disengaged with the political process, because that's what this is all about. With global unrest reaching unprecedented levels and an economy in the early stages of recovery, abortion should not occupy this country's top priority. Those of us who fall in the moderate range must continue making our voices heard above those with narrow interests.
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