Susan G. Komen Foundation Also Stops Funding Embryonic Stem Cell Research

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Susan G. Komen Foundation Also Stops Funding Embryonic Stem Cell Research

In addition to pulling funds from Planned Parenthood for The Susan G. Komen Foundation also decided to stop funding embryonic stem cell research centers making it fully transparent the organization has evolved from non-political non-profit to a partisan advocacy organization.

That means the loss of $3.75 million to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, $4.5 million to the University of Kansas Medical Center, $1 million to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, $1 million to the Society for Women’s Health Research, and $600,000 to Yale University. That’s a loss of nearly $12 million dollars in research money to eradicate breast cancer this year alone.

This is a new position for the organization which had previously supported all sorts of scientific research targeted at finding a cure for breast cancer and saving women’s lives. It’s new position is that the organization will categorically no longer support any embryonic stem cell research.

Instead of the loud, clumsy announcement Komen made in severing ties with Planned Parenthood, this is a decision they quietly slipped in during November 2011. After all, with this new pro-life branding you would think the Susan G. Komen Foundation would want to crow about it’s policy change since embryonic stem cell research is an issue near and dear to the anti-choice crowd Komen now serves.


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[izquierdista]

1. Yesterday I asked if they could be ACORNed

Now I'm definitely in favor of it.

[Dawson Leery]

4. The right wing has asked for this.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Susan G. Komen for the Pure

[Esse Quam Videri]

5. Lol, nice.

[Stuart G]

3. Thanks For Posting, k and r..

[Esse Quam Videri]

6. Yes thanks for posting this story.

I just put it up on my FB page. Lets see if this little bit of news gets picked up in the MSM. If I remember correctly a solid majority of the nation supports stem cell research.

[dflprincess]

7. If the people at Komen are paying any attention to the comments on their Facebook page

I would imagine that a good many of its employees are updating their resumes and moving personal items from their cubes back home - just in anticipation of the coming collapse.

Of course, there are a few idiots who support this move. I was not to surprised when some "moran" posted that she couldn't understand how Komen had ever support PP when everybody knows about the link between abortion and breast cancer.

[MisterP]

29. remember that scene in the 2005 "Fun With Dick and Jane"? yeah

[yardwork]

53. That lie about abortion causing breast cancer is out in full force this week, I noticed. Big fat lie

[Warren Stupidity]

8. Fucking idiots.

[abelenkpe]

9. K&R nt

[Bozita]

10. Time to burn everything pink!

Headbands, wristbands, socks, everything Komen.

[cyberpj]

21. It was so obvious how corporatized they got when football teams and grocery products started

joining the fray with their jump-on-the-bandwagon pinkness.

I haven't seen the numbers yet but I've read here that a lot of their money was used for advertising and administrative costs. Not my favorite choice for ANYwhere I donate.

[eShirl]

36. no. they didn't invent pink and they don't own pink

[ncteechur]

11. doing the bidding of the koch bros

Next, they will only provide funding research centers that the koch brothers approve of.

[maryellen99]

12. There is a Crisis Pregnancy Center board member on the Komen BOD

I wouldn't be shocked if crisis pregnancy centers starting doing free breast cancer screenings.

[The Blue Flower]

13. Research that cures cancer?

Wouldn't that put Komen out of business? Who could blame them for not wanting to fund it?

(that's sarcasm)

[jonthebru]

37. That is not so far fethed.

For years there have been people saying there is a "Cancer Research Industry" that slows or stops the cure of various cancers so they can continue collecting money.

[mopinko]

60. yeah, that and the car engine that runs on water, too.

[ncteechur]

14. This is a bit out of bounds but is it just me or does the Brinker lady look a bit like Mickey Rourke

[maryellen99]

16. Wouldn't be surprised

If she spend some of the funds on a little nip and tuck.

[Ruby the Liberal]

18. Shes tapping $500k annually for her role as CEO

Research? Meh.

[carla]

45. $500,000

for obstructing the legitimate course of science and society and women's rights and anything else the religious loonies don't like. BOYCOTT ALL BUSINESSES THAT ADVERTISE WITH KOMEN. That is all.

[Firebrand Gary]

15. K&R

I hope that as Komen begins to crumble a wide coalition of us can stand up and build a non partisan organization that can pick up where Koman has abandon.

We can do better, some fights transcend politics.

[yardwork]

54. It's called the NIH and it's under attack.

The Republicans are trying to dismantle the National Institutes of Health and other federal departments that provide the majority of funding for health research. They'd like to divert those tax dollars to private industry and private charities like Komen that will promote a for-profit agenda.

[greymattermom]

17. Sam Brownback will have fun now

That included 4.5 million dollars to the University of Kansas Medical Center that was supposed to make them competitive for a Comprehensive Cancer Grant. Which side are you on, Sam?

[Solly Mack]

19. K&R

[myrna minx]

20. K&R n/t

[SunSeeker]

22. WTF?! They defrauded me out of $100 I gave them for breast cancer research!

Not only will I NEVER give money to Koman again (in fact I donated to Planned Parenthood yesterday), but I would love to see someone file a class action suit against Koman for fraud. I'd join it. I gave Koman $100 last summer for breast cancer research--not realizing they were going to defund breast cancer research--or at least $12 million of it.

[jonthebru]

38. There is probably some fine print somewhere that says

Thank you, but you have no say in how we use the money you just gave us.

[yardwork]

56. That's true of any gift donated to a charity. You take your chances.

That's why it's important to research the organization before you give it money. I had no idea that Susan G. Komen spent so little of its fundraising income on actual research and services. Most of the money they raise goes right back into more fundraising, junk trinkets made in China, and exorbitant salaries of the executives.

[cyberpj]

23. And just as stem cells were gaining some momentum in an assortment of valuable treatments.

As a person with MS, I've been following the advancements in that area closely, but I know there are others gaining ground as well.

[Iliyah]

24. And using stem cell research in

finding a cure for cancer, will these assholes make a 180% turn around and claim they never refused it? The far right is nutso.

[gopiscrap]

25. Sounds like we might be able to do pay back for ACORN

[LostinRed]

26. Sad when the right wing takes over

I raised money for them when I ran a half marathon last year wish I could get a refund for my donors.

[arely staircase]

27. they're really on a roll

can't wait to see their next trick. what will it be? cut funding for breast cancer research altogether and just market pink sundries? though i suspect they have been pretty close to that for some time now.

[Rhiannon12866]

28. And how are they "racing for the cure," again?!

Denying basic health care to women and refusing to support research sounds like a totally assbackwards way to accomplish anything...

[SoapBox]

30. ditto...my thoughts exactly.

And, I sent via their website, a note that said that I would make sure to never
get their organization one single penny, ever again.

Now it's time to make ALL those corporations that sport the Komen name and ribbon,
take a stand, for or against.

[Rhiannon12866]

42. Good for you! If they don't support health care or research,

Exactly what is the point of their existence? Got me swingin'...

[SoapBox]

31. HERE is the Contact page for the Komen organization.

...it was very tough to get through during the day but keep trying.

http://ww5.komen.org/Contact.aspx

[patrice]

32. What can you say? Beyond words!! Doing harm, hurting people to demonstrate a political point.

wow.

[jonthebru]

39. Just say politely

that you are done with them and will find other more conscionable organizations to support.

[enki23]

33. What, are stem cells also under congressional investigation?

[just1voice]

34. Won't be long before the repukes abandon all scientific research

It's what insane people do.

[durablend]

46. Wouldn't surprise me...

To them, it's "god's will" that you die from a debilitating disease (likely because of your "sinful" lifestyle)

[slay]

35. This organization has become so full of shit - it may never recover

which is a good thing IMO. We need to move cancer treatment money to a group with more transparency - and one that cares about ALL rights of women - and certainly away from groups that follow and do what far right wackos want. It should be a group where almost all the money goes to research and treatment - not $75 MILLION a year to the admins and for "fundraising" - which is how the Komen Foundation allocated their money last year. The Komen Foundation should be ashamed of itself - in more ways than one. I applaud those who have quit over their recent embrace of far right politics over helping women. Hopefully out of this whole mess will emerge a better, stronger breast cancer group than the Kormen Foundation - women deserve better.

[yardwork]

57. We need to insist that Congress stop defunding the NIH and other public research.

[Zoeisright]

40. I honestly hope that everyone on that board

gets some kind of disease that stem cell could treat. And I don't care if that's mean. I'm fucking sick and tired of these selfish pigs derailing treatments that get their little panties in a twist that could actually help people who are suffering.

[spiderpig]

41. I have a degenerative disease and the best hope for treatment involves stem cellsl

I also worked for many years for a corporation that tried to strong-arm us into donating to United Way and SGKF so management could look good and achieve their "100%" participation. I hate bully tactics.

There are plenty of local social services desperately needing funds - and they don't pay their CEOs half-a-million a year.

[sulphurdunn]

43. This is why necessary social services

should never rely upon the charity of the rich.

[yardwork]

52. Very good point. We need universal health care and publicly funded NIH and other research.

We see where depending on the private sector for research and health care gets us.

[sulphurdunn]

58. What has happened here

also serves as a reminder of why permitting corporations and private foundations to fund public education is a bad idea.

[yardwork]

59. Yes. This points out the problem with relying on the private sector for public goods.

[marions ghost]

62. Excellent point!

Support NIH.

[krispos42]

44. I unliked them from facebook

n/t

[TBF]

49. I found this group that looks more positive -

http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/About-NBCF/Our-Founder.aspx

[madrchsod]

47. well that organization has lost all credibility.....

maybe they should change to blood red ribbons...

[CanonRay]

48. This whole thing is so sad

but they've made their choices and now they have to live with the consequences.

[truthisfreedom]

50. defund

[yardwork]

51. No pretense of doing any cancer research at all, in other words.

[Javaman]

55. in other news komen seeks children for employ.

thus completing the right wing dream.

[truebrit71]

61. Wow...and the hits just keep on coming...

...

[Hissyspit]

63. So in other words, they are NOT racing for the cure

They are not in any hurry to get there at all.

Stupid dumb-fuck Rethug-ideologue fail.

[TeeYiYi]

64. k+r...nt

TYY

[madmax]

65. There are other ways to donate to breast cancer research

Komen Foundation will not be at the top of the list for my meager donations unless they prove the only reason they exist is to fund breast cancer research. PERIOD!

[cstanleytech]

66. This is could be the first step for the republican healthcare plan for america....you know the plan

defund programs so that the disabled, elderly, poor or in other words anyone not of the 1% dies sooner.