The Komen foundation announced on Thursday that it was reversing its decision to cut funding from breast-cancer screenings done at Planned Parenthood. Three days after announcing it would eliminate grants to Planned Parenthood; the Komen Foundation, said Friday that Planned Parenthood would be eligible for future grants — but stopped short of guaranteeing funding.
So what was this all about?
Apparently this issue has been a long standing thorn in the Komen Foundations side. In an Article on The Atlantic website, journalist Jeffrey Goldberg reports that inside sources from the Komen foundation made it clear that new rules were adopted as an excuse to cut funding from Planned Parenthood.
The article from The Atlantic elaborates-
“The decision to create a rule that would cut funding to Planned Parenthood, according to these sources, was driven by the organization's new senior vice president for public policy, Karen Handel, a former gubernatorial candidate from Georgia who is staunchly anti-abortion.”
An anonymous source told the author, "The cart came before the horse in this case, the rule was created to give the board of directors the excuse to stop the funding of Planned Parenthood. It was completely arbitrary."
The speculation has only intensified since last week as to the overall conclusion of the entire debacle. The few things I mentioned above are only a handful of the information that's come out-and forgive me for not sharing more of it. In the past few days I have read articles tying this situation to every matter relating to abortion, breast cancer and women's health in general. I honestly cannot process it all fast enough to yet write about it critically.
What I do know is that the attacks on Women's reproductive rights aren't anything that's going to go away anytime soon.
Next up-Catholics and Contraception.
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