The Planned Parenthood Connection: The Komen Foundation's Race For Abortion

The Planned Parenthood Connection: The Komen Foundation's Race For Abortion
by Adam McManus - Friday, April 01, 2005

Okay. It’s pop quiz time.

Let’s see how well you know the recent humanitarian history of the Alamo City.
The annual San Antonio “Race for the Cure” in April raises money for what cause?
a) research for autistic children;
b) fight against breast cancer;
c) expensive drugs for AIDS patients;
d) allocated funds to Planned Parenthood to kill babies in the womb.

If you answered b and d, you win a prize for accuracy.

If you’re anything like my regular KSLR listeners, this revelation is rather shocking. After all, at first blush, the group appears to be above reproach.

As they indicate on their website, it was “established in 1982 by Nancy Brinker” to honor “the memory of her sister, Susan G. Komen, who died of breast cancer at the age of 36. And now the Komen Foundation is an international organization with 113 domestic affiliates and three international affiliates.” Just last year alone, more than 29,000 people ran in the 7th annual Komen San Antonio Race for the Cure, raising an extraordinary $1 million. Sounds great. Until you discover the Planned Parenthood connection.

One breast cancer patient named Joan Archer actually chose to return her wig to an Iowa chapter of the Komen Foundation last May, citing Komen’s financial support of Planned Parenthood. Archer even took the time to e-mail Eve Sanchez Silver, one of the members of the Komen Advisory Council. Silver was in total disbelief. But, to her dismay, she discovered that Joan’s concerns were legitimate. Here’s the rub: the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation sent $475,000 in twenty-one grants to local Planned Parenthood affiliates in 2003!

“What’s wrong with that?” you ask.

Simple. Planned Parenthood is the number one abortion provider in America – killing an average of 140,000 unborn babies in the womb annually. It’s a booming business. And sadly, there’s a lot of money to be made in the bloody death industry. “You can’t affirm life with one hand and support an organization that kills people with the other,” Eve Sanchez Silver, a medical research analyst and two-time breast cancer survivor.

Silver told the Cybercast News Service, and later told listeners to my talk show on 630 AM KSLR, that she does not believe the Komen Breast Cancer Foundation should be involved with Planned Parenthood since that organization “is in the business of abortions.”

“If they stopped doing abortions tomorrow, they’d go broke the next day,” Silver said. “As far as I’m concerned, anything they do in the way of drawing women in for any kind of service would simply be to acclimate them to their organization until they’re ready to have an abortion.” She contends that since Komen is giving money to America’s number one baby-killing agency that “proves to me that the foundation’s perspective is not for the safety of women. It can’t be,” she said.

“Everywhere women who are working to combat breast cancer are begging for money, but they give funds to Planned Parenthood instead,” Silver added. “And that organization is using it to make beautiful centers so they can lure women in to kill their babies.”

Not only did Silver object to Planned Parenthood because they’re the largest abortion provider, but also because of their original vision – championed by founder Margaret Sanger – of encouraging minority mothers to kill their babies more often than white mothers in order to create the Master Race. You see, Silver had been Komen’s Hispanic advisor for almost four years, in addition to serving as the director of Cinta Latina Research, an organization that conducts research into breast cancer issues and their effects on minorities.

So, she was understandably sensitive to Margaret Sanger’s Hitlerian-like embrace of Eugenics 101. Sanger – referring to blacks and Hispanics – wrote these horrific words in her book entitled Pivot of Civilization: “[They’re]…human weeds, reckless breeders, spawning…human beings who never should have been born.”

That should just about infuriate anybody. But Silver was especially upset.

“[Sanger’s] plan was to eliminate people of color,” Silver said. “As a woman of color, I have no interest in supporting an organization that is designed to kill the very people I’m supposed to be representing.” Silver was honestly hopeful that the Komen Foundation would back down from their affiliation and financial support of Planned Parenthood. However, the Komen folks dug in their heels, refusing to budge.

So Silver, to her credit, resigned immediately. And she’s been on the national circuit ever since, talking to anyone who will listen, almost pleading with people – Christians in particular – not to contribute another dime to the Komen Breast Cancer Foundation until they have the decency to “just say no” to Planned Parenthood.

The Komen folks see no moral dilemma, no quandary of any kind at all. From their morally blind perspective, they’re simply supporting any organization which provides breast care services – including the blood-stained Planned Parenthood.

Interestingly, Cybercast News Service examined Planned Parenthood’s recent annual reports which indicate that “while the organization’s overall revenue has increased five years in a row and the number of abortion procedures performed at Planned Parenthood clinics has soared during the same period, the number of breast exams conducted at Planned Parenthood facilities in 2003 fell by 13.3 percent.”

In other words, not only is it questionable for the Komen Foundation to give money to the number one abortion provider in the first place, but the raw need for breast exams – at least at Planned Parenthood – is down significantly by their own admission.

But Eve Sanchez Silver makes, in my view, a more compelling point: “the funds given to Planned Parenthood are fungible.”

Simply put, it’s a shell game. The more money Planned Parenthood receives from outside sources – like taxpayers or private foundations like Komen – for ANYTHING from paper clips to advertising to breast exams – the MORE money they can devote to killing babies through abortion.

Perhaps you’re tempted to conclude that, on balance, the Komen Foundation is more good, than bad. Let me ask you this: Would you object to me taking an eyedropper filled with sewage and squeezing three to four drops in your glass of water at the dining room table? Certainly, you’d admit that the entire glass then becomes contaminated and thus is unacceptable to be consumed.

Until Komen publicly repents of their donations to abortion-pushing Planned Parenthood, I pray that Christians would wisely invest their resources elsewhere.

Adam McManus is the talk-show host of Take A Stand, heard daily from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. CST on KSLR Radio.

TAKE A STAND ACTION STEPS:

1. Contact the Komen national headquarters: Susan Braun, President and CEO, 5005 LBJ Freeway, Suite 250, Dallas, TX 75244, (972) 855-1600. Fax: (972) 855-1605. Email from their form at http://cms.komen.org/stellent/contacts.aspx

2. Read articles by Eve Silver, the former board member at the Susan Komen Foundation, http://www.evesilver.com.

3. Learn more about the evils of Planned Parenthood by reading George Grant’s book, Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood and by going to the Stop Planned Parenthood website at http://www.all.org/stopp/