Reply #7: Although it doesn't matter in the final analysis.... [View All]

[HerbieHeadhunter]

...but the diocese was wrong. 25% of the funds raised from local affiliates do go to the Komen Foundation national organization, but these monies go to a national research fund which does not distribute funds to PP or to embryonic research (because there is no embryonic research occuring with regards to breast cancer). The 75% of the funds that remain local are distributed, in full, to local prevention and detection programs. What happens is that some local affliates of the Komen Foundation distribute funds to PP clinics because they are the only places available in some areas to perform screening and prevention services.

Anyway, facts do not play a role in the thinking and actions of the diocese (as you mention re: the abortion-breast cancer connection), so none of the above is important.