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Updated Feb 3, 2012 - 10:29 am

Fighting all the way to the bank!

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Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Fighting all the way to the bank!

Now that was a nice bit of fundraising! On Wednesday, it came out that the Susan G Komen for the Cure foundation had decided to cut off some grants to Planned Parenthood.

komenThere was a new grant policy, we were told, which said in part that no grant can go to an organization which is under investigation.

And it so happens that a conservative congressman has been investigating Planned Parenthood to see whether it uses any federal money for...you know what.

But immediately, news outlets came up with other Komen grantees which are also under investigation. Penn State, for example, gets a $7.5 million grant, and yet Penn State is under investigation for a pretty big sexual assault case you might have heard of.

The clear implication being that the Planned Parenthood cutoff had nothing to do with any real policy change, it was the Komen Board of Directors caving to pro-life groups to punish Planned Parenthood.

Some Komen supporters got so angry they cut their pink ribbons and ditched their pink T-shirts.

And yet, it appears Planned Parenthood enjoyed an eruption of new donations from people angry at Komen.

And that's not all. Komen has apparently also seen a jump in donations from people angry with Planned Parenthood!

But now, Komen has changed its mind. Policy or not, the grants will be restored. I hope they know what they're doing. The great thing about political anger -- people fight with their checkbooks!

If Komen had just kept cutting off grants, the money would have drenched everyone.

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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    Nothing is more precious, or more worth dying to defend than our American personal liberties...
    February 3, 2012 9:27 am
    that is of course, unless, one uses that liberty to make a legal choice that some of your fellow citizens consider immoral, distasteful, or politically incorrect.

    Hypocrites on all sides.

    Among the more amusing hypocrites, however, are those who are willing to extend freedom to their fellow Americans only as long as those fellow Americans toe the line and adhere to one specific version of religion or morality.

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  • Saturday Evening Post wrote...
    REALLY???
    February 4, 2012 11:13 am
    Nothing like the life and innocent child? YOUR- Personal Liberties are more precious than a childs right to life. These are Sad Days in America.
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  • Gnorn wrote...
    Victory for Women's Rights
    February 3, 2012 11:00 am
    Good job! I'm very glad that the people took time to really look into the whole "investigation" clause that Komen has recently adopted. That being said. Only around 3% of Planned Parenthood facilities actually perform abortions. But they do what they can to discourage that route. Even offer adoption options for the mother to be. I cannot think of a better organization that helps disadvantaged women stay healthy. And look at it this way. If abortions were illegal, there would be a very large number of back alley butchers that would gladly perform the procedure for a fee. Meaning any Hukster wanting to make a quick buck would be doing it. Imagine the sudden increase in the deaths of women as a result. I am, however, highly against abortions after the first 4-5 weeks. Over the counter pregnancy tests can let you know almost a week after conception. Planned Parenthood actually provides these tests for free.
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  • daveismenotyou wrote...
    Either way,
    February 3, 2012 11:08 am
    Shouldn't it be the choice of the organization? Whether you enjoy destroying fetus brains only 3% of the time or not, it should be left to the company promising funds. In this case, they broke and now more babies can be killed. Hooray!
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  • vashonmatt wrote...
    It was the choice of the organization.
    February 3, 2012 12:39 pm
    The public backlash was so great they decided they made a horrible mistake, and reversed their decision.
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  • Gate Keeper wrote...
    fools
    February 3, 2012 1:45 pm
    Only the mind of a libtard can conceive of infanticide as nothing more than a woman's right to choose, all the while calling women who choose not to abort their child, crazy, dangerous, insane "Right to Lifers". I don't support banning "fetal abortion"(that's it's name)but those of you who celebrate it make me really, really sick.
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  • rational wrote...
    More liberal hypocrisy...don't you guys every get your fill?
    February 3, 2012 8:14 pm
    So there is the unsupported asumption that Komen "caved" to anti-abortion influence and that's bad...but when they caved to the very obvious pro-abortion influence that's good?

    Neither Planned Parenthood nor Komen will be getting any of my money...I'm against my money being used to murder babies.

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  • Forrest wrote...
    And Rational
    February 3, 2012 11:37 pm
    Is willing to pay extra taxes to take care of all those unwanted babies up to and including when they go to prison as angry unwanted adults. Right Rational?
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  • rational wrote...
    Forrest
    February 4, 2012 4:15 am
    Typical leftist response. Firstly, how about teaching people personal responsiblity? I realize that's a foreign language to liberals, but honestly...keep it zipped up.

    Of course there will still be plenty of liberals with no self control and there will be unwanted babies, but your question is still bogus...you have to move past expecting an incompetent government to be the answer to every problem. As Reagan said, government isn't the solution to the problem, government is the problem.

    So to answer your question, I would gladly provide money to private charities, such as churches, that will take care of and facilitate adoptions of the babies leftists would rather just kill for the crime of being inconvenient.

    The leftist view that if a baby gets in the way the best solution is to murder it is pure evil.

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  • messiah101 wrote...
    rational
    February 4, 2012 11:50 am
    You state that suggesting you rightys start funding the social welfare programs for all those extra babies is a Bogus argument.You must believe that there is a Free Lunch.You have NO valid response so you give that tired old "personal responsibility B/S answer.You really baffle me with that type of answer as you seem like a sensible person. Let me ask you this if that church you donate to fails to raise the needed funds to feed,educate and provide housing and education for the children what happens? If Rational loses his job and cannot donate his share who steps in to fill the money gap?What churches or private charities have the resources and funds to handle the HUGE challenge?Would you be willing to Privatize child care (billing the government for the care provided but US taxpayers paying the cost)
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  • rational wrote...
    messiah101
    February 4, 2012 2:28 pm
    Leave it to a leftist to claim personal responsiblity is BS. I don't believe in free lunches...someone ends up paying, even if there is no charge for the lunch.

    No offense, but the difference between our two different worldviews is we each project our own attitudes on others. So where I would be personally willing (and have) both volunteer time and donate money to help the poor and homeless and I expect that many others would (and do) as well, liberals statistically don't give nearly as much to charities as conservatives, so the leftist assumption is everyone will behave as they would and the poor and homeless would be abandoned. Probably reality is somewhere between your view and mine.

    Part of the equation that the left never takes into account is the terrible impact their social programs impose on the very people they claim they want to help. Instead of teaching people to fish, and instead giving them fish, generation after generation builds a set of people locked into poverty and government dependency along with a sense of entitlement that destroys culture and psyche of those you claim to want to help. People should not be living on public support for generation after generation...can we agree on that point?

    As for your question about privatizing child care and billing the government...that is an improvement as far as efficiency goes but it still leads to people being locked into generational poverty and the decay of self respect.

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  • Saturday Evening Post wrote...
    Backlash..
    February 4, 2012 10:50 am
    Those who donated to Komen based on supporting there decision to cut off Planned Parent Hood should get their money back. I guess according to Liberal logic..we may as well throw out all laws because darned if their isn't some kind of moral judgement involved.
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  • Bill Law wrote...
    How about a new rule, enforced by law if necessary
    February 4, 2012 1:53 pm
    You breed it, you feed it.
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  • Saturday Evening Post wrote...
    Wasn't that the old rule
    February 4, 2012 3:51 pm
    ..Mothers and Fathers paid for their own child some of that included a parent staying home to raise their kids. First it's a tax deduction than it's an entitlement. Guess that's how we create the new nation of dependents conceived in liberality.
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  • cdbtx wrote...
    The Ideology of Hypocrisy
    February 5, 2012 4:27 am
    Why did the DNC return the contributions from Corzine? He wasn't/isn't charged with anything or under investigation and where is the public outcry, oh, wait it was praise.

    Where is the outcry over the DNC receiving money from CitiCopr and all the other Wall Street firms that ARE under investigation.

    It's an ideological hypocrisy that prevents you from apply the same rules to all. These are the same rules that will come back to haunt you in the future when your ideological beliefs are challenged in the same manner.

    Personally I believe the Komen foundation has every right to make which ever decision they choose - Consistency in their decisions would have demonstrated ethics, they chose a different course, twice.

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  • pgreenswim wrote...
    I think...
    February 6, 2012 7:43 am
    Komen is going to get a lot less money from people on the right over this one. Many on the right were not aware they gave to Planned services, but they do now.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Komen should never have bent to Liberal pressures
    February 6, 2012 8:36 am
    and begain giving money to PP after it was made front page that PP is all about murder of American babies. PP for babies is the equivelent of Auschwitz here in America. And people willfully go there and have their little baby ripped from their wombs and executed. And these sociopathic leftiest expect us Americans to pay for this Geoncide of Americans.

    We don't need Al quaida in this nation, we have the abortionist, the abortion clinics and their Death chambers and the Liberals in this nation.

    They are already here!

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  • Angry Monkey wrote...
    Ha Ha!
    February 6, 2012 11:31 am
    What planet do you live on? Are there unicorns and dragons there too?

    I'll say this for you though, no one on these boards, no one, has that unique flair for hyperbole, and monkeys*** crazy ideas quite like you. You truly are a diamond in the rough in that regard.

    I know you guys like to think of places like Planned Parenthood as a Godless Murder-plex, where morally corrupted doctors perform ritualistic abortions 24/7/365, but you are once again, like you so often are, wrong.

    Here are some actual facts if you are interested.

    http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/PPFA/fact_ppservices_2010-09-03.pdf

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  • SeattleNative wrote...
    The grant had never been "cut"
    February 6, 2012 9:34 am
    Komen never did...nor were they going to...cut any current grants.

    Hopefully Planned Parenthood's politicizing this policy decision won't delay finding a cure for breast cancer.

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