NYTimes:
The nation’s leading breast cancer advocacy organization confronted the growing furor Thursday to its decision to largely end its decades-long partnership with Planned Parenthood, with rising dissension in its own ranks and a roiling anger on the Internet showing the power of social media to harness protest....
....The deluge of criticism Komen faced on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr came two weeks after online protests led Congress to suspend an effort to pass anti-piracy legislation that some in the Internet community saw as a threat to online freedoms. It demonstrated again how social media can change the national conversation with head-snapping speed.
The furious debate is also a sign of the intense polarization of the nation’s politics in a presidential campaign season during which Planned Parenthood, led by Cecile Richards, has become a lightning rod for attacks from Republican presidential candidates...
In an article posted at LifeNews (10/10/11), Romney said the following:
“I support the Hyde Amendment, which broadly bars the use of federal funds for abortions,” Romney said, “As president, I’ll end federal funding for abortion advocates like Planned Parenthood. I’ll protect a health care worker’s right to follow their conscience in their work.”
“I will nominate judges who know the difference between personal opinion and law. It is long past time for the Supreme Court to return the issue of abortion back to the states by overturning Roe v. Wade,” he added.
Romney also pressed a pro-life theme on an international level, which is a concern for pro-life Americans especially because of the monumental abuse of human rights in China via the one-child policy and the forced abortions and sterilizations that are a component of it......
In an article in the NYTimes (5/9/07) it was revealed that Ann Romney, wife of Mitt Romney, had given, in 1994, $150 to Planned Parenthood.
I think it is outrageous that the Komen foundation has cut funds to Planned Parenthood. Women have gone to Planned Parenthood for yearly exams, breast cancer screenings, and medical care, especially when they could not afford to go to a private practice physician. We cannot allow the right wing Republicans and their ilk to stick their nose into women's health care and push their own agenda.
Those of us that are old enough to remember, do not want to go back to the old days when women went without treatment and died. We've come too far to go back to the days of aprons, getting permission from our husbands, and being denied medical care because we could not afford it. Stand up. Fight back. Support Planned Parenthood for yourself, your daughters, and some women you don't know.
When Komen and Planned Parenthood worked together, women benefited. Now, many women will have no options for their personal medical care. Shame on the Komen Foundation.