The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation’s senior vice president for public policy, Karen Handel, resigned from her post Tuesday morning following the breast cancer group’s decision to de-fund, then re-fund, Planned Parenthood. (more)
On this weekend’s “Fox News Sunday,” Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol explained that the Planned Parenthood/Susan G. Komen funding controversy is proof that despite the prominence of the fiscal-focused tea party, social issues continue to remain important to many conservatives. (more)
On Sunday’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” Washington Post columnist George Will said that last week’s decision — and subsequent reversal — by the Susan G. Komen Foundation to take funding away from Planned Parenthood was strictly about abortion and less about women’s health, adding that the case illustrates how far liberals are willing to take the fight to defend abortion. (more)
People who run private charities that award grants to Planned Parenthood have got to be wondering if their organizations will receive the “Komen Treatment,” a mafia-style shakedown, if they ever decide not to fund the group. Will their organizations’ good names be dragged through the mud in a vicious, cruel and demeaning campaign to dishonor their life-saving work? Probably. The people who run Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion chain, want money and don’t care who they have to beat down in order to get it. (more)
Pro-choice advocates have claimed victory following a public relations nightmare that erupted for Susan G. Komen for the Cure when the charity decided — and subsequently reversed their decision — to halt grants to the abortion provider Planned Parenthood. (more)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told reporters that she is “very sad” that the Susan G. Komen Foundation had decided to stop donating to Planned Parenthood due to a congressional investigation over the organization allegedly using federal funds for abortion services. (more)
In a statement released Friday morning, Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced that it has reversed its decision to stop awarding grants to the abortion provider Planned Parenthood. (more)
As officials of the world’s largest breast cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, struggle to explain their decision to cut off funds to Planned Parenthood, the organization most likely will lose its many entertainment industry supporters. (more)
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged on Thursday to give $250,000 of his own money to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America after breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure withdrew funding for the group. (more)
In the wake of this week’s announcement that Susan G. Komen for the Cure will no longer be awarding grants to Planned Parenthood, the breast cancer organization’s donations have gone up 100 percent in the last two days. (more)
In the aftermath of vociferous protest from pro-life activists, the “global leader of the breast cancer movement,” the Susan G. Komen Foundation has halted further grants to affiliates of the abortion provider Planned Parenthood. (more)
NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates — creating a bitter rift, linked to the abortion debate, between two iconic organizations that have assisted millions of women. (more)
Alveda King, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s niece, told The Daily Caller that Planned Parenthood should not receive any taxpayer funds and that her uncle opposed abortion. She encouraged President Barack Obama to watch films like “Blood Money” that show the high levels of genocide caused by abortion. (more)
This weekend the country will be begin its 40th year of living under Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the landmark Supreme Court decisions that legalized abortion, sparking deep division in the nation between those who seek the right to protect life at all its stages and those who support a woman’s right to choose to terminate the life of her own child. (more)
On the day of the Iowa caucuses, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich changed course away from his largely positive campaign, launching an attack on former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. In an interview on CBS’s “The Early Show” with Norah O’Donnell and Bob Schieffer, Gingrich called his opponent a liar and said his nomination would jeopardize the GOP’s 2012 election chances.. (more)
Forget about the giggling whispers in the back of the bus or the awkward mother–daughter sex conversations. Planned Parenthood is prepared to answer all your children’s pressing sex questions — at least in Denver, where the abortion provider’s local affiliate has adopted a new program to answer sex questions via text messages. (more)
B&H Publishing Group, a Christian publisher, has discontinued a special pink-covered “Here’s Hope Cancer Awareness Bible.” Proceeds from sales went in part to Susan G. Komen for the Cure — which has affiliates that donate to Planned Parenthood. (more)
Seven former employees of Planned Parenthood Federation of America affiliates expressed their support for a congressional investigation of the abortion provider this week, and offered to testify against their former employer. (more)
Nothing says it’s the holiday season like talking about abortion, right? (more)
Florida Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Investigations, has launched an investigation into Planned Parenthood — and the group and its allies are not taking the move sitting down. (more)
