Komen Foundation revises funding policy

I am glad that the Komen foundation has changed its mind. I think it did become political unfortunately. Planned Parenthood helps alot of women for alot of issues and not just abortion and breast cancer. I know people men and women that use Planned Parenthood for all of their primary care issues. I am glad that the American people stood up and showed the Komen foundation that we the people still means something.

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation announced Friday that it would revise a new policy that barred the organization from funding Planned Parenthood, a move that had thrust the cancer foundation into a national controversy.

Komen apologized “to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.”

The foundation said that Planned Parenthood would now be eligible to apply for grants. It did not, however, address other reasons Komen has cited for why it might choose not to approve such grants.

“Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation,” a Friday statement said. “ We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. That is what is right and fair.”

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