Mayor to Give $250,000 to Planned Parenthood

[The Straight Story]

Mayor to Give $250,000 to Planned Parenthood
By MICHAEL PAULSON and KATE TAYLOR

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, responding to the controversy over a breast cancer advocacy group that cut off most of its grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening, said Thursday that he would make up a large part of the missing money.

Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire with a long-term interest in public health, said he would give Planned Parenthood Federation of America a $250,000 matching gift — he will donate $1 for every new dollar Planned Parenthood raises up to $250,000.

“Politics have no place in health care,” he said in a statement. “Breast cancer screening saves lives and hundreds of thousands of women rely on Planned Parenthood for access to care. We should be helping women access that care, not placing barriers in their way.”

The controversy erupted this week when the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation said it would not renew most of the grants it had been making to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening. The Komen foundation had been giving about $700,000 a year to Planned Parenthood.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/bloomberg-to-give-250000-to-planned-parenthood/

[sufrommich]

1. We can only hope that the tide is finally

turning on the religious right in this country .Could it be that people have finally had enough? Now they're going after Ellen, big mistake.

[HockeyMom]

2. MSNBC reports PP got $650,000 in the last 24 hours

Majority of which were very small donations. So how many individual people would that be?

[sufrommich]

6. Well, I gave $25.00 ( that's all I could really afford)

I imagine there are a lot of people like me who couldn't afford much more , so I would estimate the number of donors at " a shitload".

[NYC Liberal]

4. Yes, going after Ellen is laughable and will only backfire.

It's 2012. She is extremely popular and has millions of fans and admirers. Very few people care now that she is gay.

So I say go for it. It will only alienate the bigots further.

[obamanut2012]

8. Ellen? What are they doing to her?

[sufrommich]

9. They're calling for a boycott of J.C. Penny for hiring Ellen

as a spokesperson.

[HockeyMom]

3. Hey, don't you know

that abortion, AND BC, both clause breast cancer????? I have know women who never had an abortion, and used barrier methods of BC, who STILL got got breast cancer. I suppose according to these jerks these women must have been SINNING in some way against God (not welcoming many of his "gifts"?) so they were punished. Welcome to the American Taliban.

[joeybee12]

5. This is why when Bloomberg pisses me off, I still don't hate

him like some Repukes...he often does the right thing.

[HockeyMom]

7. Comment from a Freeper

This (sad excuse for a) man is too far gone to be helped by flesh and blood. Only the Holy Ghost can do the job now.

Let’s pray for the Holy Ghost to cause the lost one to seek the face of God through Christ Jesus.


Hello? The man is JEWISH!