I'd like to thank Tom Joyce (above this comment) for his expanding on this
problem and discussing the bigger problem. As he says, this is a concentrated effort to enforce "Christian Law" in the United States. I don't have to look any farther than where I live, which is Virginia, to see our right-wing governor's attempts to turn Virginia's laws into Christian Laws. His efforts to make barriers to a woman's right to an abortion are state-wide "regulations" that require the clinics who provide these services meet construction and design standards mainly intended for new hospitals . Efforts to require a woman to view an ultrasound before an abortion, and other Draconian "rules" are doing their best to return Virginia to its Civil War past.

Elizabeth Nash, a public policy associate at the Guttmacher Institute in Washington, which studies reproductive health issues said it best when she said "All of these counseling laws are designed in one way or another to reinforce this message that women shouldn't get abortions, to otherwise shame a woman when she is trying to make a decision that is best for her family".
And this is just Virginia. Defunding efforts like Komen's are the tip of the iceburg. We all need to work together to shine a light on those who want to move the US backward in time.

Remember that many Christians believe that if their morality is not reflected in the laws, then they are "second class citizens". And they oppose Planned Parenthood because they oppose any contraception that is not "natural".

Look at their uproar over the Catholic hospitals being required to offer their overwhelmingly female employees birth control in their health care. it is not enough to say that Catholics do not have to use such care, they also must have the right to refuse it to others.

Many people are missing the goal of these Christians, which is to bring back the morality encoded in law that prevailed before the SCOTUS canceled a state's right to out law birth control.

They are also upset about sodomy laws being ruled unconstitutional.

For these Catholics and other Christians, they are nit free to practice their beliefs if the beliefs are not also the law of the land.

They are no different than the Taliban and the Muslim clerics in Iraq and elsewhere, and it is easy to understand their point of view if you consider the way they view sin. sin is an absolute category, and homosexuals and the sexually active, and so many others are not being punished by society anymore and to them this is a mockery of their beliefs. For them, it is as if we have made armed robbery not a crime. As long as homosexuals and others flaunt their sexual deviancy in front of their children and them, disobeying God's eternal laws, our society has made it impossible for them to live moral lives.

That is how they think, and that is why Planned Parenthood is an organization that they would oppose even if Planned parenthood stopped any connection to RU 84 and abortion. To them, all birth control is a crime and a sin.

I urge everyone to boycott Susan G. Komen, and their pink ribbons, and their sponsors. The people who oppose Planned parenthood oppose Birth Control. also, in many cases, such as The Roman Catholic church and others. They represent a cultural war against liberals, progressives, libertarians, and anyone who does not believe in their God, and in a hierarchical morality based on The Pope and the Bishop's relationship to what they believe is an absolute truth.

With many of the opponents of Planned Parenthood, this is a continuing war to bring back an America that they believe once existed and can be brought back, with prayers in the schools, religion making laws, and women in subservient positions in general, and as stay at home full time moms when they do get pregnant.

It's Komen

Not Koman

NOT Korman

Sincerely, Boeum Hill resident "Jo Korman."

Regardless, the woman in the above photo is quite pretty.

And totally misleading since PP doesn't do mammograms.

330,000 a year.

People think that everytime they make a donation to anything related to Koman that it is actually going to Koman.  Not true.  I am a survivor of both Uterian and Ovarian cancer and have a great deal of trouble wanting to give to Koman since they have become a "Brand" and that's not what they started out to do. Breast and Ovarian cancer are linked and for some reason Breast Cancer gets so much more money and press then any other form of cancer.  Cancer is cancer, it doesn't need to be labeled, it needs to be cured.  All of these groups are working against each other instead of working together.  That's why I donate to "Stand Up To Cancer."  They fund research and care on all forms of cancer.  I disagree with the writer who said that it is not in the best interest of medicine to find a cure.  All of my doctors have worked very hard to find a cure, unless you have had cancer, you really don't know what you are talking about.

Looks like the Komen folks wasn't needed after all all politics side what does this nation well being have to do with a non for profit origination that does something that can be done at many other clinics and I'm not one of those Planned Parenthood is abortion factory I know they do yeoman's work in women's health however they are not the only game in town 

please try to start using punctuation once in a while it is very hard to read what you write when you don't bother to punctuate in fact i couldn't make heads or tails out of it because it is just one massive run-on sentence that makes absolutely no sense

 You are right about seattlesnow. I wasted a few minutes trying to read a functionally illiterate writer.

Can everyone just admit that the number of abortions done due to
rape, medical reasons (congenital abnormalities) and legitimate
contraception failure is a tiny amount?

Most women who get abortions somehow fucked up. The had unprotected sex and
got pregnant and then decided it wasn’t a good time to have a baby. It
really is that simple.
 

Let's say you're right, and American tax dollars do make it through some loophole or another and fund abortions. If it truly is a tax issue, then I think it's worthwhile to do some math: which costs the taxpayer more, an abortion, or a child whose parents weren't ready for it? How many children who would have been aborted would end up taking advantage of social entitlement programs like welfare, subsidized school lunch, HeadStart, food stamps, Medicaid, and the like? Not to mention any potential ER visits that put an additional burden on the system. In the long run, a child whose parents "fucked up" and kept it may end up costing the taxpayer considerably more money than if that same couple had aborted.

I'm not really advocating taking this cold monetary approach to family planning, but just take your argument to its logical conclusion. Even if your tax dollars funded 100% of all abortions ever, you still might come out "ahead," tax-wise.

Most women who get abortion somehow fucked up?

Like the 1 Million women who were responsibly taking their birth control pills only to learn yesterday, oh, whoops, turns out Pfizer fucked up the pills so oops, they might actually be pregnant.
How about the woman who got pregnant despite being on the pill for seven years straight, because of spontaneous ovulation during the placebo week?

How about the actual 20% failure rate of birth control pills and condoms?  These are the actual average failure rates, not the "perfect" rates listed on the packaging.  For every 1 million women having sex with a guy using one of those methods, 200,000 could become pregnant.

What about the 1.35 million condoms recalled yesterday in South Africa because it turns out they leaked like a sieve.  What about all those women who may have gotten pregnant as a result, how did they fuck up?  Did they deserve the HIV they might have contracted, too?

Guess what, YOUR TAX DOLLARS DON'T FUND ABORTIONS AND HAVEN'T SINCE 1976.  Look it up:  It's called the Hyde Amendment.

How do women get pregnant? From sperm that comes from a guy. Yeah, that's the woman's fault.

Quit spouting such totally baseless bullshit.

The yearly failure rate for oral contraceptive that is correctly used (every day) is 0.3% and condoms are 2% - even less when appropriately using both and/or spermicide.  Not 20% like you claim. 

The majority of failures of contraceptives are due to inappropriate use by the user.   I would suggest that you talk to your OBGYN if you are confused about these numbers. 

Here's the reference - you know, from a medical text book.  Not something you made up. 

http://www.contraceptivetechno...

I swear I try not to argue with idiots on the internet but this is more so I can stop yelling at "you" from my side of the computer screen. Here is the reality, who gives a shit how someone "fucked up" and got pregnant? The point is that now someone who has decided they weren't ready to be a mother (and in many cases some dude telling her he isn't ready to be a father) is faced with one of the most difficult decisions in their life. It's her uterus and she can decide what she would like to gestate in it. People like you get on my fucking nerves because the reality is isn't about your precious tax dollars it's about your barely veiled MISOGYNY. Your "tax dollars" fund illegal wars, "your tax dollars" fund all kinds of fucked up government mistakes and folks like you never say one damn word but God forbid a woman decides to not bring a "precious" life into the world. Think about this, should she bring said "life" to term and cannot afford to feed that baby you would be the same asshole complaining about how your tax dollars went to her food stamps, or free health care or little rent subsidy. See damned if she does, damned if she doesn't. For folks like you its never about your tax dollars its about your woman hating, you just hide behind   the delusion that you are stressing "personal accountability". BTW the woman does "pay for it" herself, if she does not have insurance (which btw up until a few years ago MOST would on average pay for up to 3 abortions but wouldn't pay for birth control, they did however pay for viagra...hmmmm) Planned Parenthood charges a few hundred bucks to terminate a pregnancy. THERE ARE NO FREE ABORTIONS PEOPLE. If you are insured and poor then you're kinda up a creek without a paddle aren't you?  Here is my last thought. The woman must make the decision and she "fucked up" but uhm it took a man to also chose (and thereby "fuck up") not to be protected, how come none of the onus is ever laid at his feet. I guess the irresponsible women got pregnant through immaculate conception. 

Take a chill pill.  Maybe that person who decides they don't want a kid should make that decision BEFORE having unprotected sex.  Don't you think not getting pregnant in the first place is easier on everyone (woman, man - who as you mentioned have to make a very difficult choice) than going through with an abortion?

And I'm not absolving the man's responsibility to wear a condom,or take care of the kid (or abortion costs) if the woman becomes pregnant.

But ultimately it's the woman who gets pregnant (sorry nature).   Unless a woman is raped - I'm sure she has some choice whether or not to let some guy bust his nut in her. 

And, yes, the abortion clients at PP pay a fee which is subsidized.  And tax money that goes  to PP is fungible, meaning that it can be used for everything - including abortions (a clever little way around the Hyde amendment). 

I'm not against abortion.  Just take away ANY way to fund it by taxpayer dollars (including that "fungible" loophole) and I'd think you'd make everyone (including me) shut up about this.  Until  that's done, people are going to be pissed off about it. 

I was going to respond to you the. I saw your above replies to everything else and I just chuckled. I apologize I'm an idiot for engaging you. Your logic is on such a slippery slope it doesn't even matter at the end of the day mu uterus my choice (and choice of my partner when it applies). There Are those who will use cancer to attack those who create platform for that and no matter what your skewed logic is that sucks donkey nuts, plain and simple.

Yeah, like I said elsewhere; I'm terrible at not taking the troll bait, so don't feel bad about it.