The Susan G. Komen Foundation issued a statement today which it hopes will stop the horrible publicity (and reduced cash flow) it’s been getting since it announced it would stop funding Planned Parenthood. It sounds better than it is. Take note of these sentences:
We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities.
Komen’s management has already shown itself to be untrustworthy. It seems to me that the words “preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants” leaves them an opening to find other reasons to defund organizations merely by refusing those applications.
I don’t trust the organization any more, and I see no reason why anyone else should either.
At this point, I think that the Komen Foundation is more interested in marketing their name instead of their mission to help others. They’ll get no more help from me. In fact, I will choose not to buy any of their pink items in the future.
That’s something else they didn’t think of. It’s awfully easy to boycott something as well-marked as the items they endorse. “Lessee, got a pink ribbon on it? Okay, not that one.”