essentialisinvisible asked: “The Susan G Komen foundation is against Planned Parenthood?”

Yep - Komen cancelled grants that allowed Planned Parenthood to provide breast cancer screenings because of pressure from anti-abortion groups. Their director of public health resigned in protest and their website was hacked last night.

On the upside, P.P. raised $650,000, which is almost enough to make up for losing Komen’s funding.

EDIT: Sonicbloom said, “Just to add to PP’s fundraising in the last day, individual donations gave $400k, the Fikes’ Foundation pledged $250k, Mayor Bloomberg pledged $250k, Credo pledged $200k. That’s $1.1million. Over the last two years, Komen gave PP $1.26 million.”

P.S. Komen also sues other charities for using the phrase “for the cure.”