There are other charities we can direct our donations to. The National Breat Cancer Foundation and The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Not sure if they grant funds to Planned Parenthood or not, but certainly worth looking into as an alternative.

will no longer support this foundation,

We stopped donating to the Komen fund earlier this year. We did this because we found out that they shared with planned parenthood. We DO NOT believe in abortion, nor can we "knowingly" help support any organization that supports abortion.

i'm giving my money directly to planned parenthood from now on.

I hope all the people who donated to Komen this week specifically to show support for Komen ending their funding of Planned Parenthood will now demand that Komen return their donations. Those $1 million+ dollars were collected under false pretenses.

A shame Komen backed down due to pressure by pro-abortion groups and PC. One of the big arguments put forth by the above was that PP, also provided free women's health services ie. pap smears and mammograms. All well and good, but, I would be interested to know the amounts of those as compared to the many abortions also performed by PP. I would wager it is probably a lot smaller number.

I am not pro abortion. I am pro-choice. I will also STOP funding Komen and fund PP directly.

PP does NOT provide mammograms. They were a "pass through" provider, meaning they referred women to other places for mammograms. The SGK Foundation was stopping their financial support of these types of providers because the providers could not show that they were actually doing anything to warrant the monies they received. PP can still refer women out for mammograms and I'm sure it won't affect their bottom line.

I found out several years ago that SGK Foundation was funding grants to PP and I thought it incredible that they would financially support a group that provides two services that have been linked to increasing a woman's chances of developing breast cancer - abortions and birth control pills. Now that is sad.

Ah, yes... Pro-choice sounds so much soothing than pro-abortion. Gotta get the words right.

The Komen Foundation stepped in it big time this week. I already knew they gave big money to Planned Parenthood and had stopped sponsoring them several years ago. Komen operating expense percentages are far too high for me too (I want almost all of my donated funds to go to the cause, not the 'operating expenses' of the collector). So, NEVER again will Komen see a dime from me.

I so admired SGK's decision to halt funding abortion - finally. For a minute anyway - now I am totally disgusted. I guess anyone can be "persuaded" to change a good decision. This will come back to bite them in the long run as some people have a conscience that cannot be challenged.

I love Planned Parenthood! It helps keep leftist horde from getting too too big.

To bad Komen caved to the leftist baby killers. This just shows how vicious these creeps are when their abortion funds are threatened. Planned Parenthood=50 million taxpayers murdered.

I wanted to donate to the Komen foundation, but I discovered that they were giving to Planned Parenthood. I will not support them as long as they are partnering with the women (and men) killers.

Maybe I am naive, but why are cancer-fighting donations going to any thing but cancer-fighting causes/research?

When we donate to a particular cause, we expect the money to go there, not to support PP or any other organization, whether that org be leftist/righist. My outrage lies not only in the dollars goig to PP, but the fact that the monies are going anywhere but where intended.

I will now assume that additional monies are paid to other leftist causes decided by the charities' administrators. (Leftist is assumed because they are the most insidious and unscrupulous).

(How much money has the Democrat Party taken from Susan Komen or the National Humane Society, for instance).

Americans must now look at ALL charities and see where their hard earned dollars actually go. These shenanigans may actually hurt our support for all sorts of well-known charities. Given the state of our economy, this is not a good thing.

I despise being lied to. And I am not alone.

I was shocked to read in Friday's Digest that Komen Foundation ever supported Planned Parenthood. If I had know any of our donations were going for Planned Parenthood, I never would have made the first one. Now, amazingly, I read this weekend that Komen has reversed their commitment not to support Planned Parenthood. I want a refund on what I have given, and will NEVER support Komen again.

I will also avoid purchasing any product with the pink logo. Enough! Yogurt with pink lids and football teams wearing pink shoes? No. I will boycott pink from now on. I hope the people who pander pink will now see nothing but red.

All these "Cancer Research" organizations are sink-holes of wasted money. There will never be a "cure" when there's Mega Money in raising money - the cure is too inconvenient and doesn't contribute to the political agenda (PP, etc.).

Abortion should not be 'secretly' funded by any organization, and it should not be funded by our governments (federal nor state/local). However, abortion must be legal - history has shown that.

As for donations, I don't support any organization other than local public schools. I can see the results of my efforts - certainly worthwhile.

Don't know if United Way and United Appeal send donated funds to Komen but, if they do it makes me happy to state that I deal with neither of these "charitable businesses." I know how much of each dollar goes to a charity anyway with high, 6 figure salaries for their CEOs and their expensive office spaces. I too was surprised that Komen would ever support "planned parenthood"; I have dealth with PP professionally and will not again do so in any way.

I will in NO way ever support any organization that supports any other organization that kills babies!!!

This debacle clearly shows what happens when either individuals or organizations base their decisions on "political correctness" instead of core principles and beliefs (morals)! The big news is that Koman was giving money to PP in the first place! If I had known that, I would never have donated anything to them! Their requests for donations will now be going into my SPAM folder. As for all you who say you will now donate to PP directly, Among those 300,000 abortions, there were thousands of girls who will NEVER have to worry about getting breast cancer because their lives were snuffed out by ignorant women who think Abortion is a good method of birth control! They could use implants, condoms, Birth control pills provided by Planned Parenthood. When Civilizations start killing their own babies, the decline and destruction of that Civilization is not far behind.

I agree With BonnieU2. Our civilization is doomed by those who think killing babies is an acceptable cure for the problems of the world. It is an evil practice based on a selfish, self-centered mentality.

I knew of Komen's financial relationship with PP long ago. My family also stopped any funding of Komen and we tell people why. The irony is that there is a direct relationship between abortion and breast cancer. You would think that advocates of breast cancer awareness would point out that fact.

I found out a couple years ago that the Komen foundation was giving donated money to PP. I posted it on Facebook so all my friends would be informed. Last Thursday I gave a small donation in support of their wise decision to stop funding PP. However upon reading on Friday they had changed their mind, I called to let them know I had also had a change of heart. Their audio message promised a call back, but I have not received one as of yet.

What a shame that breast cancer has become entangled with abortion.

The Susan Komen Foundation stands to lose now whether they continue to support abortionists or not. The pro-abortion lobby has enough clout to cause the Foundation concern about its own future funding and they will find out that this is true of the pro-life group as well. Taking benvolent contributions intended to benefit breast cancer victims and giving those contributions to abortionists is an evil deed. Deciding to support evil rarely ends well.

shame on Komen

@ scotto..you are 100% correct. I remember reading my dad's Popular Science magazines back in the 1950's & there were many articles stating that they were on the verge of curing cancer with all kinds of new treatments in the pipeline. 60 years later they still haven't got a cure & they still treat it with the same poison & Stone Age,cut,slash & burn methods which eventually kills the patient in most cases. There are cures to be sure,but they are either covered up or banned.There is no money to be made if people are cured. There are natural treatments with no side effects but they aren't well publicized or the feds stop them at the behist of big pharma in the guise of some phony pretense.

In reguards to you people who don't know where & what your donations go for,I recieved an Email list some time ago about this & the only organization out of about 25 or so that didn't waste the money on admin was The Salvation Army. All the rest piss away the money like Koman does & most of the money goes into their pockets.Very little goes to the cause that they supposedly are supporting. They operate just like the fed govt does & they are impotent when it comes to helping people. It is all about getting their hands on other peoples money & wasting it foolishly. It's all a big scam.

These comments are the reason the right stopped listening to the news or participating in government a long time ago. There is so little righteousness represented in these comments that there is no place to begin an honest discussion. The article, while well written, points out the futility of discussing vain issues in public forums. No amount of discussion will transform God's commandment from "Thou shalt not kill" to "Thou shalt not kill unless the Supreme Court commands that you do, unless the legislature demands that you produces funds for someone else to kill in your name, unless the President gives a filthy speech declaring the killing is only killing if he declares it is killing,..." God simply says, "Thou shalt not kill" and commands us to protect the lives of the innocent. All of this discussion is just vanity. It will not change the fact that we as individuals and as a nation will be judged by the perfect law of Liberty. Jeremiah 34:17 "Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth."

How is that for liberty? Liberty to experience the sword, pestilence, famine and to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. God loves liberty because it is in liberty that our hearts are revealed for what is in them. Choose this day whom you will serve. God loves liberty.

It is with deep regret that I read about Komen Foundation's capitulation to pressure regarding their decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood. My first impression upon hearing Komen's initial decision to stop PP funding was that there really ARE some leaders in the public arena who have the fortitude to withstand an unrighteous public outcry. That initial decision was met with a tremendous outpouring of financial support from those applauding the move. Being 'double-minded' may now be the charitable way to describe Komen's leadership team. It reminds me of the title (and content) of Lee Iacocca's book, "Where Have All the Leaders Gone."

I never knew about this connection between PP and Komen. For many years I've received promotional mailings from BMW advertising an arrangement with Komen Foundation where if you test drive one of their cars a donation to Komen is made. Shouldn't this kind of association be made public so the people being encouraged to participate in whatever special event can decide if they support the parties that benefit? I like BMWs and have bought them before, I support breast cancer research, but I'm solidly pro-life. Am I to take this to mean that BMW supports abortions and I'm not really their type of customer? I'd sure like some clarification on that, so it looks like I'll be preparing to ask some tough questions the next time I'm in the market for a test drive of a BMW!

As a breast cancer survivor, I initially supported the Susan G. Koman Foundation, registering for and raising money for their 2009 3-Day Walk for the Cure. However, upon learning of their association with Planned Parenthood, I pulled out of the event. Unfortunately, my money still went to Koman.

When I heard the news last week that Koman was ending their association with Planned Parenthood, I was very happy, but I was also very cautious. I didn't jump on the Koman Band Wagon; something like this sounded way too good to be true. It was.

This is a slap in the face to breast cancer survivors, and I sincerely hope that people who have or who are considering donating to Koman look for other organizations who have no association with Planned Parenthood, and who are totally committed to finding a cure for breast cancer.

How can an organization, such as Koman, who supports the welfare of women's health, ignore the fact that Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of abortions in this country? It does not make sense to advocate for the lives of women, while ignoring the murder of millions of unborn babies.

BonnieU2, you are my kind of person! This country was doomed from the first legal abortion that wasn't connected to a rape or life-threatening complications. I have no idea how many babies have died since, but PP has made $millions$ off of it, and even get federal subsidies to do it (much against my own personal choice!). It's far too lucrative for the leftists to let a little thing like conscience interfere. SGKF will never receive another penny from this taxpayer - maybe if enough people stop contributing, their CEO only will only be able to bring in 4 figures. And, just for the record, a cure for cancer, and AIDS for that matter, has been found and silenced. The researchers' funding is provided by people that make money on the disease and can't afford a cure. "Even so, come Lord Jesus" - soon, please!!

It's irony at its finest! Please send us your money to save the lives of women, who make babies, so we can defer some of that funding to destroy that WHOM they have created which we have saved so they can create so we can destroy...

There's some circular reasoning for ya!! Very similar to, "How do you know how old a fossil is?" By the geological strata in which it's found, of course! "Well, how do you know how old the strata is?" By the types of fossils you find within it, silly!! This is what our Universities are teaching.

Unless I'm mistaken, the Bible is pretty specific about how fools will become wise and the wise deemed foolish in the last days.

Then again, Team Pink is most likely on a mission to kill that book, too.

Personally, I will now find women fighting breast cancer and donate to them directly!!

"those WHOM"

Sorry about that.

Appears to be like most of these so-called charities' just another way for somebody to live off the rest of us without working!!It's damn funny that with all the billions that have been thrown at cancer we're no closer to a cure!!

All these "Cancer Research" organizations are sink-holes of wasted money. There will never be a "cure" when there's Mega Money in raising money - the cure is too inconvenient and doesn't contribute to the political agenda (PP, etc.).

I have never supported Komen because, for among other reasons, more women die every year of cardiovascular disease than all cancers combined. The PP angle cements my decision. However I'm concerned about the statements about their overhead being greater than what goes to cancer research. The American Institute of Philanthropy, a watchdog group of charitable organizations, gives Komen a B+ rating. Who is correct. AIP or the Patriot Post?

@Scotto

You are 100% right - there is no job security in finding a cure for any kind of cancer, diabetes, heart disease or any of the other myriad diseases that afflict human beings.

I am very unhappy about all this. Money sure makes strange bed-fellows.I get the impression that the Susan Komen group is a money maker for themselves. Big salaries seem to be the key.

VILLA MUST HAVE DIFFICULTY REALIZING THAT PRO-CHOICE IS "PRO DEATH" TO THE UNBORN. THIS IS A TRICK OF THE DEVIL TO DECEIVE AND THOSE THAT CANNOT SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES ARE THE VICTIMS OF THIS GREAT DECEPTION. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL!

As a 3-time cancer survivor and now FORMER contributor to the Komen foundation, I wish I had known about this earlier. They have seen the last penny from me! I WILL NOT support any organization the supports the slaughter of innocents and I will be more diligent in researching where my contributions are directed.