Planned Parenthood and Komen Foundation
For many years the Susan G. Komen Foundation has been collecting money to help breast cancer victims. It has also been giving almost $500,000 a year to Planned Parenthood.
Despite repeated educational attempts by pro-lifers across the country, Komen has refused to end its relationship with Planned Parenthood.
Komen's main source of income is its "Race for the Cure" events that are held across the country. These events get ordinary citizens to raise money for the organization.
Given its long-time connection with Planned Parenthood, we ask all of you to have no involvement with the Komen Foundation and to discourage others from helping it.
Documentation on the involvement of Planned Parenthood and Komen can be found on the web site of Pro-Life Waco, an American Life League associate group dedicated to fighting Planned Parenthood.
A creative alternative to Komen
Many people want to help breast cancer victims and wonder what they can do besides giving to the Komen Foundation. We received the following announcement from Barbara Myers of Pro-Life Waco. It is a creative answer to the question. We pass it on so you might consider similar actions in your own communities:
Dear pro-life friends,We have been encouraging you to let Susan G. Komen of Central Texas know of your displeasure at their relationship with Planned Parenthood of Central Texas. In the name of helping needy women receive mammography, Komen's unnecessary grant of $45,000 to Planned Parenthood helps them to appear as a caring medical facility instead of the evil abortion business that they really are.
Many pro-lifers have responded in amazing ways.
Donna and Wayne Garner have taken a lemon and turned it into lemonade. Recently, their friend's wife passed away from breast cancer. Kathy was a truly pro-life Christian woman. After hearing of a team running in the Komen Race for the Cure in Kathy's name, they went into action. Discouraging all those who signed up from running in her name, they found the perfect way to memorialize Kathy and help other women fight breast cancer without supporting Planned Parenthood.
Donna and Wayne contacted the Hillcrest Hospital Department of Development and set up a memorial account in Kathy's name. The money will be used for mammograms for women who do not have the ability to pay.
Many people make the mistake of thinking that Susan G. Komen is the only source of helping and treating women with breast cancer. The Komen organization grows fatter each year and refuses to inform women of the abortion/breast cancer link while partnering with Planned Parenthood abortion facilities.
Here is your alternative to help women in your own community!
Hillcrest Health FoundationPro-Life Waco will start with a donation of $100. We encourage you to join us and encourage all your friends to donate. We will take away Komen's last feeble excuse that Planned Parenthood is their only hope of reaching out to needy women.
P.O. Box 5100
Waco, TX 76708
Phone: 254-202-4560Mark your check to "Kathy Verett Memorial Account - Breastscreening "
Thank you for all your efforts to raise awareness of the sacredness and beauty of all human life. Rather than curse the darkness, we will never stop lighting candles for life.
Please forward to your friends.
God bless you,
Barbara Myers
Pro-Life Waco
bmyers@prolifewaco.org
Judge orders Planned Parenthood paid with our money
Here is the scenario. State lawmakers in Idaho pass a law that requires parental notification when a minor seeks an abortion. Planned Parenthood of Idaho does not want parents involved and files a lawsuit to overturn the law. Planned Parenthood, which nationally receives one third of its income from the American taxpayer, spends over $580,000 on lawyers and eventually gets the law declared unconstitutional.
Then, Planned Parenthood sues to get the taxpayers of Idaho to pay for its lawyers.
This week, U.S. District Judge Mikel Williams ruled that the state must pay more than $380,000 of Planned Parenthood's attorney fees.
This is ridiculous! Let's stop all taxpayer money going to Planned Parenthood and we will not have to put up with these lawsuits that keep parents out of their children's lives. Sign our petition online.
Rapid City pro-lifers send Planned Parenthood scurrying for place to hold news conference
Recently Planned Parenthood scheduled news conferences in both Sioux Falls and Rapid City, South Dakota. The purpose of the news conferences was to announce the beginning of a drive to collect signatures to force a ballot referendum to overturn South Dakota's new law that bans all medical and surgical abortions in the state.
Planned Parenthood first scheduled its news conference in a government and school administrative building in Rapid City. When local pro-lifers were alerted to this, they made calls to officials the day before the scheduled news conference and got it cancelled.
Planned Parenthood scurried and announced the news conference would take place at a local senior citizens center. The morning of the news conference, pro-lifers again made phone calls and alerted the management of the senior citizens center and again, the news conference was cancelled.
Planned Parenthood scurried again and made last-minute arrangements, and finally held the news conference in a local hotel. When pro-lifers contacted the hotel management after the event, the hotel apologized. They said they were not aware of the purpose of the news conference and that they would not rent a room for such a purpose again.
Congratulations to the pro-lifers in Rapid City for their outstanding work and persistence. Planned Parenthood is going to have a real tough time convincing South Dakotans to overturn their new abortion law.
At the invitation of these same pro-lifers, STOPP's Jim Sedlak will be speaking in Rapid City on April 28. We look forward to seeing all our friends again.
What is Planned Parenthood hiding?
Planned Parenthood Federation of America still has not issued its 2004-2005 annual report. Although it has made public its service numbers, Planned Parenthood has not released any federation-wide financial numbers.
Historically, these numbers have been made public in December of each year. It is now April and we have yet to see any financial data from Planned Parenthood. What are they trying to hide?
It is time to demand these numbers. We ask you all to contact your elected officials and ask them to go to Planned Parenthood and ask for the 2004-2005 financial data for the entire federation.
We ask you all to go to local reporters and ask them to get the same data and, if Planned Parenthood refuses, ask them to investigate what Planned Parenthood is trying to hide.
An organization that, in 2003-2004, received 33 percent of its income from the American taxpayer should not be allowed to operate in the dark. Demand to know what Planned Parenthood is hiding. It is your right.
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