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The abortion provider uses a vast media and political network to maintain its subsidies from government and private charities.

By ROBERT P. GEORGE AND O. CARTER SNEAD

The Susan G. Komen Foundation, an organization dedicated since 1982 to fighting, and one day curing, breast cancer, decided to extricate itself from the culture wars by discontinuing grants to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of abortions. The grants Komen had been making amounted to $650,000 last year, funding some 19 local Planned Parenthood programs that offered manual breast exams but only referrals for mammograms performed elsewhere. Read more…

by Sheila Liaugminas

It has been deeply revealing and we have learned much.

First of all, that the relationship existed. After all the years of doubt or uncertainty by many contributors to the Pink Ribbon campaign over whether the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure donated some of those funds to Planned Parenthood, it’s all out there now. So there will never be another Pink October or any other fundraising campaign in which ubiquitous pink ribbons  and the Komen logo of the breast cancer awareness giant will not be associated with Planned Parenthood, the abortion giant. Read more…

By JAMES TARANTO

Planned Parenthood’s bitter campaign against Komen–aided by left-liberal activists and media–is analogous to a protection racket: Nice charity you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to it. The message to other Planned Parenthood donors is that if they don’t play nice and keep coughing up the cash, they’ll get the Komen treatment. Read more…

by Charlie Butts

Komen initially decided to stop providing funds to Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion-provider in the country. It had reportedly adopted new criteria excluding the clinic chain from future grants for breast cancer screenings because it was under government investigation at the urging of pro-life groups. Read more…

by Peter Heck

Call it Planned Parenthood’s war on choice. In less time than it takes to scald a child to death with a saline injection into the womb, the rabid pro-abortion lobby descended like vultures down upon the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation. The Komen crime? They dared exercise their right to choose when it came to whom they gave donations and funding.

The relationship between Komen and the abortion mill has always been a baffling one on several levels. Komen was started as an organization that sought to find ways to save the sick and suffering. Planned Parenthood began as an organization based upon the Margaret Sanger lie of eugenics that taught weaker beings should be exterminated. Komen exists upon the fundamental concept that all life is valuable. Planned Parenthood exists upon the fundamental deceit that only “wanted” or “convenient” life is worthy of protection. Komen’s answer to social problems is to strive to find ways to support the living. Planned Parenthood’s answer to social problems is to increase access to killing procedures.

And then there’s the abortion/breast cancer link that leaves a rational mind boggled as to why an abortion provider would ever receive funding from an organization fighting breast cancer. While pro-abortion activists rail that any supposed link between the two is debunked, that just isn’t true.

Planned Parenthood claims that the National Cancer Institute officially denied abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer in their 2003 conference. But what they conveniently omit to mention is that the decision to do so was purely political and was accompanied by many dissenting voices like Joel Brind of Baruch College. Brind, a PhD endocrinologist in New York City, complains that the conference “refused to allow attending scientists to present the opposing position of the scientific research establishing the link, showing that abortion was declassified as a cancer risk for political and not scientific reasons.” They also ignore the inconvenient fact that the NCI’s lead researcher has now completely retreated from her position.

Keep reading.

By Judson Berger

As the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation faces accusations that it split with Planned Parenthood over political pressure, at least a couple pro-life groups are claiming the organization may have acted out of concern over an alleged link between abortion and breast cancer.

The theory that induced abortion increases the risk of breast cancer has been studied for decades and is a controversial one — and one that is contested by major medical organizations.  Read more…

by Angela Franks

First published at Public Discourse.

A new biography of Margaret Sanger fails to confront the Planned Parenthood founder’s ideological commitment to eugenics and population control. Read more…

Former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson says ‘we were not allowed to talk about it’

WND

A stunning Planned Parenthood document that includes radical ideas such as compulsory abortion and sterilization; special “permits” to have children; penalizing parents; and encouraging homosexuality dovetails with some Obamacare mandates, according to a former Planned Parenthood director. Read more…

by Charlie Butts

Planned Parenthood has ended its legal attack on Arizona’s “Abortion Consent Act,” which had been held up in court since signed into law in September 2009.

The law, argued before the Arizona Court of Appeals in mid-June, prohibits non-physicians from performing surgical abortions and provides for women to be fully informed with accurate information on abortion including possible consequences 24 hours in advance. In addition, it protects health workers who object to participate on religious or ethical grounds and requires notarized parental consent for minors seeking abortions. Read more…

by Charlie Butts and Jody Brown

The pro-life group Live Action has conducted an undercover investigation exposing misinformation by opponents of Mississippi’s Personhood Amendment, an initiative that would declare a person a “person” at the point of conception.

Click to view video. Read more…

by Becky Yeh

A pro-family leader is calling on California’s governor to veto a dangerous bill that he and other family advocates believe undermines parental authority and the safety of children.

Governor Jerry Brown has several days to decide on the fate of AB 499, a bill that would allow minors as young as 12 years of age to consent to “medical care related to the prevention of a sexually transmitted disease.” The bill, introduced by Assemblywoman Toni Atkins (D), would allow children to agree to vaccines and treatments without the consent of parents, including the vaccine Gardasil. Read more…

by Jewels Green

Note: Jewels Green is a former abortion clinic worker who also had an abortion herself. She recently spoke out about her experiences as an abortion clinic worker for the first time. Read more…

by Steven Ertelt

The pro-life organization responsible for recent videosshowing Planned Parenthood offering abortions to alleged sex traffickers who prey on women finds the abortion business is misleading about mammograms. Read more…

by Charlie Butts

Planned Parenthood will face an investigation by a House committee over alleged abuses that have come to light as the result of undercover investigations by the pro-life groups Live Action and Life Dynamics over the past dozen years. Read more…

by Arland K. Nichols

September 28, 2011 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/09/4031

The HHS mandate on contraception is based on insufficient research and betrays the committee’s deep pro-contraceptive bias. Read more…

by Charlie Butts

Life Dynamics, a group fighting to return full legal protection to unborn children, has conducted an exhaustive study that validates claims made in its documentary that associates Planned Parenthood with the eugenics movement. Read more…

This is very interesting: the Obama administration is thwarting the will of the people.  The big old federal thumb is securely on the scale here, tipping people’s “choices.”

This week President Obama addressed Congress and the American people to lay out his latest plan for job creation.

But actions speak louder than words. And President Obama seems to only care about a few jobs: those at Planned Parenthood. Read more…

by Sheila Liaugminas

There’s a lot in the news about contraception and health care and Planned Parenthood right now. And a lot more that should be.

The scope of this is staggering.

Let’s go through just a few of the many stories. Read more…

by Sheila Liaugminas

Taxpayers pick up a third of it. Chances are, most of us didn’t know that.

Until this report came out. Read more…