Friday, February 3, 2012

Komen Reverses Planned Parenthood Decision

Posted By on Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:22 AM

While the Southern Arizona chapter is somewhat unaffected (since they haven't made grants to Planned Parenthood), the national board of directors for Komen Race for the Cure has apologized for its costly PR move earlier this week and will continue to fund grants made to Planned Parenthood:

We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives.

The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not.

Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation. 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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