Loon takes over Komen Foundation, cuts off Planned Parenthood funding

I detest Komen, but it has nothing to do with this particular issue, it's just another log on the fire.

 

Wow. That is honestly the first time I'd heard that. Dammit! Now I have no way to save the tatas!

 

Nice that I think three of the top 20 are Veteran's organizations. Well done, folks. So not only does the government fail these people when they come back from combat, so too do the non-profits set up to assist them.

 

To play complete devil's advocate here, the waters are starting to becoming muddied over just how effective/efficient routine cancer screenings -- and other sorts of screenings -- are in people who are generally at low risk. One of the arguments is that the benefits of what early detection does take place are outweighed by the negative effects of false positives. Seemingly true both for mammography and routine prostate cancer screenings.

I've also heard the argument that the reason U.S. cancer survival rates are "higher" is because they're generally five-year survival rates. Because earlier detection does often occur in the U.S., someone may "survive" seven years with cancer, whereas had they been in, for example, the U.K., they might survive just four years -- but only because the cancer wasn't caught until three years later.

 

Not bad points, deskslave. On a cost-efficiency basis alone you could argue for reduced screenings. However, none of what you're saying has anything to do with the reasons for this action. Komen just decided to start playing politics, is all.

 

I think everyone who has tweeted, and hasn't tweeted, already donated to PP. The money just goes through the middleman known as the US Government.

 

Which they will immediately use to drive your sweet innocent daughters to the abortionists, and then force them to marry militant muslim lesbians on the way back.

We want our countree back.

 

Is there really a problem with this move if Komen spends the same money funding breast cancer examinations elsewhere?

 

More of a problem for Komen's donations, I imagine. Will be very interesting to see what the enrollment/fund-raising is for their 3-Day walks this year. They're giving people lots of reasons to look elsewhere with their charity dollars. And that includes a lot of corporate money, which tends not to want to get too political with its do-gooding.

 

Depends on if those same exams are available for free to underpriveleged women.

 

Well, I'm not concerned about the very poor.

 

Komen's biggest hit will come from corporate partners who back away from the foundation because of the controversy. They partner with Komen so they can market to to women and seem like "good guys." I figure they will start looking for another outlet like Avon or the National Breast Cancer Coalition