MUST READ: Founder of Komen's Own Words
Feb. 3rd, 2012 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanETA 11:15am Friday: Rumor has it that the Komen Foundation has backed down, and agreed to restore funding to Planned Parenthood. I have yet to get a confirm on that from a certified news source, tho.
ETA2 1PM There is some serious confusion as to if the funding will actually be restored, or if the Komen Foundation is doing some pretty tap-dancing to 'restate their position.' Either way, I trust them about as far as I can throw their main HQ.
Since Nea puts it so well, I give you her post, in full:
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neadods at MUST READ: Founder of Komen's Own Words
ETA2 1PM There is some serious confusion as to if the funding will actually be restored, or if the Komen Foundation is doing some pretty tap-dancing to 'restate their position.' Either way, I trust them about as far as I can throw their main HQ.
Since Nea puts it so well, I give you her post, in full:
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neadods at MUST READ: Founder of Komen's Own WordsI was going to just write a rant about my personal experience when a Planned Parenthood-enabled mammogram told me I didn't have breast cancer. Then I was going to put a link to a beautifully succinct message from the Komen boards from a woman whose breast cancer was discovered via a Planned Parenthood prescribed mammogram.
Then I found this article from the LA Times: Komen Officials Say It's Not About Abortion in which most of the points that I wanted to make have been tangentially made by Nancy Brinker, founder & Chief Executive of Komen, falling over her own feet.
Reading it, I planned to discuss the double standard of paragraph 6, where Brinker said that they were cutting funding to all institutions under investigation, but neither she nor the reporter made a peep about grants going to Penn State (currently under federal, state, *and* local investigation for covering up long-term pedophilic predation).
Then I was going to crow about Brinker herself putting the lie to "poor women can just go elsewhere" in paragraph 8, when she admitted that several Planned Parenthood branches will still receive funding "because it provides services that cannot be replaced through grants to another organization."
But it's paragraphs 9 & 10 that stopped me in my tracks:
Komen officials also said that the Planned Parenthood's breast-health programs may not be the best use of its funds. While women can receive clinical breast exams at Planned Parenthood clinics, patients are referred to other medical facilities for mammograms, biopsies and cancer treatment. Brinker referred to this model as "pass-through" services.
"We look at the quality of the grants," Brinker said. "This isn't about funding the same thing over and over. It's about how can we get better? We don't like to do pass-through grants any more."
You know who else doesn't do mammograms, biopsies, and cancer treatment? ALL OB/GYNs! My doctor writes me a presciption to get a mammogram; she sent the stuff she removed from me out to a lab for biopsy; and if it did turn out to be cancerous, we would have discussed her referring me to an oncologist. She is the coordinator and the medical expertise, but she does none of this work herself. She passes it through to the other experts.
THE FOUNDER OF THE KOMEN FOUNDATION JUST TOLD A REPORTER THAT KOMEN CONSIDERS THE WORK DONE BY EVERY OB/GYN IN THIS COUNTRY -- INCLUDING MAMMOGRAM REFERRALS -- TO BE SOMETHING THEY "DON'T LIKE" TO GIVE GRANTS TO ANYMORE.
Spread this far and wide. This isn't about abortion, this isn't even about Planned Parenthood. This is about the expressed opinion of the director and founder of Susan G Komen for the Cure regarding mammogram referrals, no matter where they come from.
Then I found this article from the LA Times: Komen Officials Say It's Not About Abortion in which most of the points that I wanted to make have been tangentially made by Nancy Brinker, founder & Chief Executive of Komen, falling over her own feet.
Reading it, I planned to discuss the double standard of paragraph 6, where Brinker said that they were cutting funding to all institutions under investigation, but neither she nor the reporter made a peep about grants going to Penn State (currently under federal, state, *and* local investigation for covering up long-term pedophilic predation).
Then I was going to crow about Brinker herself putting the lie to "poor women can just go elsewhere" in paragraph 8, when she admitted that several Planned Parenthood branches will still receive funding "because it provides services that cannot be replaced through grants to another organization."
But it's paragraphs 9 & 10 that stopped me in my tracks:
Komen officials also said that the Planned Parenthood's breast-health programs may not be the best use of its funds. While women can receive clinical breast exams at Planned Parenthood clinics, patients are referred to other medical facilities for mammograms, biopsies and cancer treatment. Brinker referred to this model as "pass-through" services.
"We look at the quality of the grants," Brinker said. "This isn't about funding the same thing over and over. It's about how can we get better? We don't like to do pass-through grants any more."
You know who else doesn't do mammograms, biopsies, and cancer treatment? ALL OB/GYNs! My doctor writes me a presciption to get a mammogram; she sent the stuff she removed from me out to a lab for biopsy; and if it did turn out to be cancerous, we would have discussed her referring me to an oncologist. She is the coordinator and the medical expertise, but she does none of this work herself. She passes it through to the other experts.
THE FOUNDER OF THE KOMEN FOUNDATION JUST TOLD A REPORTER THAT KOMEN CONSIDERS THE WORK DONE BY EVERY OB/GYN IN THIS COUNTRY -- INCLUDING MAMMOGRAM REFERRALS -- TO BE SOMETHING THEY "DON'T LIKE" TO GIVE GRANTS TO ANYMORE.
Spread this far and wide. This isn't about abortion, this isn't even about Planned Parenthood. This is about the expressed opinion of the director and founder of Susan G Komen for the Cure regarding mammogram referrals, no matter where they come from.
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Date: 2012-02-03 02:37 pm (UTC)M
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I never know how to bring this up without sounding like a class-A bitch, but I like to put my money toward the ignored diseases.
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Date: 2012-02-03 06:30 pm (UTC)cnn is reporting it- http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/03/politics/planned-parenthood-komen-foundation/index.html?hpt=us_c2
More importantly, the BBC is reporting it- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-16875958
I'm with you though- I will no longer support the Komen Foundation if I can help it. They only u-turned because of the bad press. And we have no evidence as of yet that it is a full u-turn or that it will stay this way.
Komen, backing up ...
Date: 2012-02-04 03:47 pm (UTC)Heh.
So I did :D
Stupidity and cowardice and turning health services to women into a political football are all improper, aren't they?
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Date: 2012-02-09 01:51 pm (UTC)