{"id":78887,"date":"2015-11-02T17:31:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T22:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=78887"},"modified":"2015-11-03T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T19:38:14","slug":"im-glad-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/im-glad-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I’m glad October is over"},"content":{"rendered":"
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October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In a sense, I’m glad that it’s over.<\/p>\n

We should all be able to rally around supporting a cause\u00a0like\u00a0breast cancer research, right? It shouldn’t be one of those politicized issues, should it? Unfortunately, when Susan G. Komen still donates to Planned Parenthood, this isn’t the case.<\/p>\n

Readers may remember the 2012 book, Planned Bullyhood. <\/em>Author Karen Handel worked as the vice president for Komen\u00a0and also felt\u00a0that breast cancer shouldn’t be a politicized issue. But\u00a0Handel soon found out<\/a>\u00a0her organization was\u00a0 giving grants to Planned Parenthood. Handel’s book\u00a0title\u00a0refers to the backlash that resulted when Komen\u00a0attempted to cut off grants to the nation’s largest abortion provider, which is already taxpayer funded.<\/p>\n

Sadly, Komen eventually caved, and Susan G. Komen’s Race for the Cure is still giving<\/a> to Planned Parenthood today.<\/p>\n

While I try to be charitable, October is particularly difficult for me because I know there’s always a chance that if a store is collecting donations for breast cancer research, they’ll be doing so for Komen, and thus for Planned Parenthood.\u00a0It doesn’t matter to me whether it’s $1.00 or $100.00; I cannot stomach my money going towards the nation’s largest abortion provider in any context. They’re already being funded by me against my will with my taxpayer dollars anyway. They don’t deserve another cent.<\/p>\n

The building in which I currently live collected change for Komen. If I could have been\u00a0absolutely sure my money wasn’t going to an organization that donated to Planned Parenthood, I would have found it a worthy cause. Even more touching is how they had a bake sale\u00a0– but those proceeds were also going to Komen.\u00a0I had to walk the other way and forgo the treats the kids were selling\u00a0(which I can only imagine were delicious).<\/p>\n

What’s even more off-putting about Komen donating to Planned Parenthood is that Planned Parenthood doesn’t even perform mammograms<\/em>. After repeating the lie – and even having those in the Obama Administration do so\u00a0–\u00a0CEO and president Cecile Richards admitted<\/a>\u00a0last month that her organization does not perform that service. The pro-life movement knew this all well before her testimony before members of Congress though on September 30.<\/p>\n