Susan G. Komen for the Cure found out that taking the Planned Parenthood fight national was a very bad idea. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised they were forced to back peddle over not just for survival, but creating a national backlash that may have done more harm than good.
While Planned Parenthood continues to lose funding on a state level, those battles were limited to local news casts. But Komen's decision began to turn the tide against right wing extremism and the anti-abortion movement.
NY Times: Susan G. Komen for the Cure said on Friday it was retreating from a decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood, which provides abortion and birth control services, and apologized for a move that thrust the breast cancer charity into a deeply politicized controversy.On Fox News, Family PAC Federal Vice President Sandy Rios went nuts, using every racial term possible as if to defend minorities with her extremist anti-Planned Parenthood position. You really won't believe it, even Megan Kelly was repulsed:
I think if you REALLY read their "reconsideration"...you'll find they did nothing. They didn't really back down.....just pushed the blame onto someone else.
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The juries still out in my mind. We'll see. Again, I think if they actually backed away, they did it for survival.
ReplyDeleteIf this is just a word game, and future PP payments are not in the plans, well that should tell us something.