Tag: Komen for the Cure

What’s Airing on Pro-Life Perspective Today? “Some Real Truth About Komen and Planned Parenthood”

By Dave Andrusko It seems like months ago, but it actually was just a few weeks ago that Planned Parenthood battered the Komen Race for the Cure into submission. National Right to Life President and Pro-Life Perspective Host Carol Tobias reviews what the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto likened to a “classic shakedown operation.” For …

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Komen’s reversal hard for pro-life breast cancer survivors

By JulieSchmit-Albin, Executive Director, Nebraska Right to Life Editor’s note. This first appeared in the Lincoln Journal-Star As a pro-life activist who also happens to be a breast cancer survivor, I was encouraged by the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s recent announcement that it no longer would fund grants to Planned Parenthood Federation of America affiliates. …

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Komen Senior Executive resigns as pro-abortion pressure continues to ratchet up

By Dave Andrusko Planned Parenthood and its allies exacted another pound of flesh today when Karen Handel stepped down from her role as Komen for the Cure’s senior vice president for public policy and chief lobbyist. Pro-abortion blogs, which had demanded her resignation, simultaneously crowed and warned that while her ouster was “a step in …

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NRLC RESPONDS TO KOMEN REVERSAL

WASHINGTON – Succumbing to pressure from the mainstream media and Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen for the Cure today announced Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates will remain eligible for grant funding. Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider, performing approximately 27% of all abortions annually in the United States. The following …

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National Right to Life President Carol Tobias notes that Komen for the Cure is intimately tied to the abortion industry . . .

Komen for the Cure and Planned Parenthood By Carol Tobias According to the Centers for Disease Control, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States, aside from non-melanoma skin cancer. In 2007, the most recent year numbers are available, 202,964 American women were diagnosed with breast cancer — and 40,598 …

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