Planned Parenthood is not about to let anyone escape without exacting retribution. With the help of allies in politics, the media and other advocacy groups, this week it undertook a vicious campaign against Komen that explicitly urged corporate donors to cut off the charity if it didn't relent. Individual Komen board members have been publicly attacked, as if trying to stay neutral in abortion politics is a crime against women.Word.
Yesterday Komen responded by seeming to back down. "We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants," Komen founder Nancy Brinker said in a statement.
It's unclear whether Planned Parenthood has actually brought Komen to heel. Austin Ruse of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute argues that the wording of Ms. Brinker's latest statement reflects no actual change in policy. Komen never planned to revoke existing grants, and eligibility to apply for a grant does not necessarily mean eligibility to receive one. He advises that potential donors to Komen wait and see.
Apart from the brutal lesson in the intolerance of abortion advocates, the larger principle at stake is the right of a charity to donate to whomever it likes, for whatever reason it likes. Mr. Bloomberg is free to do whatever he wants with his money. But it is to his great discredit that he would join a campaign to smear Komen for exercising exactly the same right.
PREVIOUSLY:
* "Imaginary Mammograms."
* "Susan G. Komen Apology From CEO Nancy G. Brinker."
* "Susan G. Komen 'Snapped Like a Toothpick' Amid Left's Unprecedented Campaign of Hatred and Smears."
* "Susan G. Komen Caves to Murderous Radical Left Abortion Industry."
* "Truth Is, Planned Parenthood Doesn't Do Mammograms — Progressives Outraged at Funding Cuts While Donations Pour Into Susan G. Komen."
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