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Re: Komen (I may lose my lib card for this)
This articles stated what I had heard yesterday -- that funding was being cut off because PP was "under investigation". "Efficiency" was never brought up.
Backpedal all you want SGK -- you have shown your true colors.
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The FB page indicates that it's fairly widespread, but it's hard to tell.
I think their big problem is that it taints their rep. Even if people don't get outraged about this, I suspect their might be longer term "hmmm, I think I heard something bad about them so I won't donate" kind of effect.
I don't know, my mom is a Republican in rural Arkansas and she's PISSED.
I think it will be widespread. But I also think the issue for them is that it's way easier to lose a donor than gain a donor. I've seen a lot of people online saying they're going to stop donating and donate to PP. And not as many saying they'll now be donating to SGK.
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This. Also, who is their target donor? It seems to me that the people who are really up in arms over PP funding are more likely to be donating their monies other places anyway. Not that you have to be liberal or conservative to care about cancer, but the people who really take issue with PP probably have other donation priorities.
"The meek shall inherit the earth" isn't about children. It's about deer. We're all going to get messed the fuckup by a bunch of cloned super-deer.- samfish2bcrab
Sometimes I wonder if scientists have never seen a sci-fi movie before. "Oh yes, let's create a super species of deer. NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG." I wonder if State Farm offers a Zombie Deer Attack policy. -CaliopeSpidrman
It's exceptionally widespread. Even here in Canada people are watching this thing unfold. I'm the chair of a local non profit and we just got memos about how to handle donor issues/choices/etc... based on what just went down.
This was an enormous mistake for them. Huge. ANd will act as a non profit example all over north america.
OMG, the FB page is FANTASTIC. People are nuts.
I KNOW the Susan G. Komen grants to Planned Parenthood were for mammograms, but they were being used for ABORTIONS!!!
I bet her FUPA's name is Shane, like the gunslinger/drifter of literature.--HappyTummy
Free abortion with mammogram! Mammogram/abortion twofer! You, ma'am, step right up. Hmmm, you don't look very pregnant. Maybe you should get on that and then come back.
Outside of Oklahoma, they use the fetuses for food.
"The meek shall inherit the earth" isn't about children. It's about deer. We're all going to get messed the fuckup by a bunch of cloned super-deer.- samfish2bcrab
Sometimes I wonder if scientists have never seen a sci-fi movie before. "Oh yes, let's create a super species of deer. NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG." I wonder if State Farm offers a Zombie Deer Attack policy. -CaliopeSpidrman
My favorite last night was "Who needs PP for mammograms? Breast exams are easy to do at home!"
Dear SGK, your efforts to raise breast cancer awareness may not have been that successful.
I'm disappointed, but I can't really be outraged that a private organization made a choice I disagree with. I'm fine with spreading the word and people who support PP changing their donations accordingly. I'm guilty of ignorantly donating without investigating what Komen was really doing with that money, so in a way, I think it's good this happened and an ill-managed charity is getting it's day in the court of public opinion.
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If I could designate that my money was only to be spent on abortions, I would.
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If only there were more abortions...I can think of so many who would have made a better abortion than outside person...not to mention those that didn't need to be parents...
Even before this hit the Nest, I learned of this from my sister's boyfriend on FB. I don't know much about his political leanings, but his comment about being outraged by this decision made me like him more. Of course, I don't think he is a fan of children, so maybe that explains why a dude in his late 30s, living alone in St. Louis wants to support abortions.
I am certainly guilty of never researching SGK. I contributed a very minor amount of money at work all in the name of wearing jeans (we were allowed to wear jeans on a day other than Friday if we donated - I'm a whore for jeans day). That won't happen again. Too bad. I was actually really tempted to buy the pink Kitchenaid. I'm ashamed that I'm a whore for jeans...and for pink $hit.
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I think this is where I'm at, but with a healthy dose of righteous indignation.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
Ideally no one would ever get pregnant unintentionally and abortion wouldn't have to exist. I don't want abortions to happen. But I can't imagine legislating a person's internal organs even if it would stop abortion. Do we legislate that a parent is obligated to donate a kidney or bone marrow to their dying child? Should a parent go to jail if they refuse? I realize failure to undergo surgery is a lot more passive than an abortion, but in terms of being pro-life and the government telling you what to do with your body, I don't think they're that different.
"As of page 2 this might be the most boring argument ever. It's making me long for Rape Day." - Mouse
I think there's a huge difference is refusing to undergo an invasive procedure to save a life (though I'd hope any parent would) and in actively ending a life. Now, I could argue that it's more like not allowing a mother to smother her infant with a pillow, but that's not true either. That's why abortion is a hard topic. There is no comparison in the world.
My problem with the pro-illegal abortion movement (thanks, Mouse!) is that the unborn life is the top priority to the detriment of all others. Maybe I'd change my mind if I had a kid or felt the urge to have one, but for me, a life already started will always trump a life not yet begun. And I don't just mean in life-or-death situations. I'd rather an unwanted pregnancy terminated than a child brought into this world. I'm glad people choose the adoption route, but that's not always possible/workable/easy/ideal, either.
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I wonder if the debate would change at all if abortion entailed removing the embryo, fetus, whatever it is at that stage, but not actively killing it.
This is my line of thinking as well. I got in many a debate over that damn prop26 stuff with people that are staunchly anti-abortion and equally pro abstinence only sex ed. I don't see how the two can go hand in hand.
All of the money that was spent campaigning for that stupid thing could have been spent on preventing unwanted pregnancies since, you know, Mississippi alternates with Alabama on who gets to be the worst at that.I'm just going to post this here because it annoyed me.
FB friend. "Everyone upset about SGK and PP, be upset about forumla marketing. Breast feeding PREVENTS cancer. Prevention first."
I'm of the in a perfect world people wouldn't get pregnant and not want it or not be able to care for it. But every day I read about some horrifying account of abuse or murder of a child that's been around awhile. Their lives are rarely inspiring other a-holes not to do the same thing. Some douchebag threw his girlfriends 4 mo old out of a car into traffic because they were fighting and another threw his over a bridge. These people should've aborted in my opinion.
Look abortion isn't like getting a car wash. I dont feel like it should be something people take lightly but I think it's necessary. And it's just not one of those things the law says I can't do based on someone else's moral code