Was Komen Foundation’s Planned Parenthood Pullout Because of Catholic Guilt or ObamaCare Politics? | The New York Observer

Is this the “real” truth of the Komen issue?

But why take away the money now after 6 years of donations, the last of which equaled $700k in grant funding?
It must be all the political pressure. See, everyone thinks that the world’s leading breast cancer foundation is cutting off Planned Parenthood (where they traditionally paid for preventative screenings) because the organization was under congressional investigation; with Democrats and Republicans using the women’s care facilities as a stand-in for every reproductive rights issue on the table, Congressman Chris Sterns has made it his mission to “investigate” Planned Parenthood.

Of course, the issue may be more personal, as the leader of Planned Parenthood is Democrat activist Cecile Richards, while the founder of Komen for the Cure is Nancy Brinker, who along with her former husband Norman Brinker were two of Ohio’s biggest GOP donors. And it’s an election year, which again, has the party lines divided along the health care debate harder than its ever been.

Another clue could be found back in October,when a dozen or so Catholic church dioceses openly voiced their discontent for Komen’s life-saving charity. One of the reasons they gave (besides the group not being theoretically opposed to stem cell research) was the money going to Planned Parenthood.

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