Isn’t this just dandy. The guy writing this column wouldn’t ever have written a word attacking the Susan G. Komen Foundation, if the vaunted women’s breast cancer group hadn’t decided to follow it’s own rules and stop contributing to other organizations that are under investigation. Planned Parenthood is under investigation. Planned Parenthood should be under investigation considering what it does is not planned parenthood, but abortion and contraception. Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger to keep what she saw as inferior races from taking over the country and the world. Inferior races to her, were the same races considered inferior by the Nazis and as a percentage of those aborted with planned parenthood funds and programs, blacks are the most aborted race percentage wise by far. Susan G. Komen is at least involved in saving lives, while Planned Parenthood is really Planned Killing.

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Their decision to “follow their own rules” was in fact a blatant attempt to cut funding to Planned Parenthood for political motives.

Planned Parenthood is POLITICAL and your reply is political. An organization dedicated to saving lives may find it more than ironic to be supporting an organization that is life taking. By the way, why does a breast cancer research foundation give the money that people give to it to save women from breast cancer, in turn give their money to an organization that is responsible for making sure that more black americans never see the light of day than all of the shooting sprees and drug deaths in all of the inner cities in the United States? When people send their money to Susan G. Komen, now they know they are supporting Planned Parenthood. Looks like the whole thing is a POLITICAL scam. “Send us your money fo end breast cancer and you get the double benefit of less blacks.” That’s what you have now. And that’s what you support.

Planned Parenthood has come under investigation several times before and Komen didn’t withdraw support then. I think that’s a strong indicator that Komen had ulterior motives.

The first responder clearly sports a pro-life viewpoint but has a poor understanding of the difference between cause and correlation. Planned Parenthood provides funds to lower-income families and it’s damn unfortunate, but a lot of blacks are in those families. A racist attitude has nothing to do with the formation of Planned Parenthood as I see it.

Of course, you could argue that Sanger was aware of the statistic, and so aimed to kill black children (which does seem to OP’s point) but I find that hard to believe.

Up until this point, I’ve kept out of the pro-life/choice argument, but it’s unaviodable. I would argue that abortion is often a positive thing because it prevents children from being born into families that cannot support them. Granted, people could make better choices about conception and sex, but the fact is that sometimes that just doesn’t happen and there’s a good chance your child will suffer.

Death is sometimes a mercy. I think people who undergo abortions very strongly consider having their children because it is an amazing thing to be a mother and they have to weigh that joy against their children’s potential suffering. If they think their child would suffer too much, abortion might be the kinder choice. In light of that, I think it’s important to respect a woman’s choice when she choose an abortion or not.

With that outlook, Planned Parenthood is doing good because they are supporting women who have to make tough choices for someone else’s benefit. And I can support that.

First of all, what is a breast cancer support group doing funding Planned Parenthood? Does everyone who sends money to Komen know that they send some of their money over to Planned Parenthood to end thousands of childhoods before they get a chance to start? “Death is sometimes a mercy” You’re a real Pol Pot kind of guy there with that hot one. Have you considered it for yourself? You find it hard to believe that Sanger was a racist? She said so herself and it can’t be a coincidence that when a person who taped a call of themselves as a potential donor called in to Planned Parenthood and said they wanted their donation to go specifically for aborting blacks and the Planned Parenthood that the call center person said oh yes we can do that, I understand. It;s hard to believe what Lenin and Stalin and Hitler did too, but you know what? They did it and a whole lot of other people are doing nasty things all over the world and the nastiest ones are the ones who think they’re creating utopia and just need to get rid of everything and everyone who is in the way. Is that hard to believe?

Well then jolly good on Sanger that she can be a racist and still make peoples' lives better. Eventually she’ll step down out of growing to old or just moving on to other things and hopefully we can have a not-racist making peoples' lives better. I can’t say I’m completely comfortable with Sanger myself.

As to your question about whether I have considered euthanasia for myself, yes I have. My grandmother became a quadriplegic after another car smashed into hers. She was unable to do anything but move her neck for months as I watched the rest of her body develop bed sores and rot away from the bone before she finally died. And the doctors wouldn’t just let her go on. She had to lie there and suffer for months unable to do anything except wait to die. Consider how grim a prospect that is, my friend, and tell me death is not sometimes a mercy.

And you know, it may be an extreme case, but some children might have to go through that if they’re born into families who can’t support them. Goodness knows, gangrene and infections are easy if you’re poor. If you can honestly find it in yourself to allow that, you can come back and tell me that abortion is bad thing. Because a lot of times, it’s a choice between die or suffer and die. It’s a tough choice, but people have to make it every day. What would you pick for your children?

I cannot believe this discussion has devolved into arguing about whether Margaret Sanger was racist. FYI-she’s been dead for a long, long, long time (she’s an early 20th century figure)!

Sanger, like many of her contemporaries, was very intrigued by the abhorrent science of eugenics. And this did inform her conception of who should become parents and how should not. This isn’t all she was, but it was a part of her identity and her politics. Suffice to say, she is truly a problematic figure.

Moreover, it is disingenuous to continuously allude to her personal views and how we find them awful today when discussing modern-day planned parenthood. I’m not excusing her opinions, but name me one organization that’s been around over 100 years and doesn’t have these types of skeletons in their closets. Surely even the Catholic Church, for instance, wouldn’t hold up too well (and you don’t have to go back a 100 years, try Rwanda during the genocide or Franco’s Spain).

That’s all merely to say the historical context surrounding an organization’s founding isn’t always a good departure point for parsing out its current value or morality.

If Adolph Hitler’s Nazi Party were still doing the same things to the same people racially and in eugenics as they were when he was leading it, it would be “problematic,” now wouldn’t it? It just so happens that Planned Parenthood is still doing the same things to largely the same racial groups as it was in the early 20th century. Planned Parenthood was founded and bankrolled by Sanger’s second husband’s oil money. They had a program called “The Negro Project,” does anyone care to contemplate the meaning of that phrase? Margaret Sanger kept doing the same things and thinking the same thoughts and was President of Planned Parenthood until 1960 when she was 80 years old. She died in 1966. Now, can anyone tell me why Susan G. Komen is giving money to Planned Parenthood? No one has explained that yet. Why is it wrong for Komen not to fund Planned Parenthood?

Because, among other things that benefit women, Planned Parenthood provides funding for screening for breast and cervical cancers.

Also, as has been mentioned before, Sanger is quite dead and unless her ghost has secretly been leading Planned Parenthood since 1966, which keep in mind is right around the Civil Rights movement and the major change in American thinking regarding African-Americans, I think there’s no evidence Planned Parenthood is a racist eugenics-oriented organization.

Now unless you can make a decent argument for any of your so far preposterous conspiracy theories or have something worth talking about so that we might actually have a well-thought out debate, please put your tinfoil hat back on and take your comparisons to Hitler back with you to high school.

Planned Parenthood provides money for screening for breast and cervical cancers? They provide money for it. So why does Susan G. Komen send money to another intermediary in order to provide the service to women? Susan G. Komen is an intermediary supporting another intermediary to do what Susan G. Komen could do themselves. Right. Your dog whistle leftism doesn’t address the facts, which are that today and ever since Planned Parenthood came into existence, long since Margaret Sanger died and Civil Rights were passed, aborts far more blacks percentage wise than any other race and it isn’t close. What do you call that? Blacks are enjoying genocide through Planned Parenthood and have been ever since it was founded. Take your foil and twist it into an antenna so you can get better racial signals from Captain Kirk.

Scientific studies show that the #1 predictor of breast cancer incidence is abortion. This makes the Susan G. Komen funding of Planned Parenthood self defeating. Put a tin hat on that.

Damn the facts. “I think there is no evidence Planned Parenthood is a racist eugenics-oriented organization.” Why? “Well, because I say they aren’t doing exactly what they did when Sanger the racist, eugenicist was running it.” Yes, but they are doing exactly what they did when she was running it. “I don’t care, that’s a conspiracy theory and it is very uncomfortable to notice that it is exactly what Hitler and the Nazi’s were doing.” “I dismiss that by saying go back to high school.” “Here in our top flight college we live in the arrogant bubble of facts optional.” “We don’t need no stinking facts.” Alright then. That’s all from Hanover.

12:59, the only study that relates abortion to the likelyhood of BC correlates delyed first birth to the desease, hardly an indictment of abortion as a cause of BC.

Most of the comments here are based entirely on political ideology. PP spends 97% of its resources on the non-abortion health care. Komen spends just 36% of its outgo on research, screening and treatment.

PP has an average of 3 million clients each year and 300,000 get abortions. If PP has an annual budget of $1 billion and the average abortion costs $400 that’s $120 million just for the abortion itself. That’s 12%. This doesn’t include the abortion counseling or any other costs related to the abortion. The false 3% figure comes from the number of “services” PP provides to their 3 million clients, which is an average of nearly 4 separate services per client, for a total of 11 million. 300,000 abortions is 3% of the 11 million services provided. At PP abortions are not just another “service,” it’s their favorite service. So is 3% a political statement intended to mislead, or is it just wrong? How much of PP’s budget goes to their actual services and how much to the staff raising money for itself? Who does PP send their money to? Or does PP just suck the money out of the federal government and other organizations who do the dirty work for them? I can’t see why an abortion organization would want to get their hands dirty in the ugly business of fundraising when they could be spending more time aborting children, especially black ones, who are aborted at 3 times the rate that white children are aborted. Isn’t that right?

@Anonymous 1:32….pardon me, black children are aborted at 5 times the rate that white children are aborted.

Right. Stop that Breast Cancer organization “Juggernaut” It’s getting in the way of the religious beliefs of the left. Death being number 1.

A private charity is a Juggernaut that has to be Stopped. A largely public “Charity” Planned Parenthood, that gets $375 million of their $1 billion from taxpayer money must continue to be supported by the Komen private charity according to Mehring and if they don’t he will experience the Chris Matthews “thrill up the leg” from the backlash that he forsaw. The federal government is the Juggernaut that has to be stopped. About the force of government where it has no authority to act, not a peep. There is an incredible nationwide backlash against the force of the government acting in ways that are “incredibly” unconstitutional. Mehring has no problem with that. He endorses the lawless centralized use of power.