UPDATE: Susan G. Komen Foundation reverses their decision
to cut Planned Parenthood funding. It was nice while it lasted -- all of four days!
Update: Actually, they didn't reverse their decision. Instead, what we are seeing here is equivalent to a mafia shakedown.
Via WSJ columnist James Taranto:
Planned Parenthood’s bitter campaign against Komen–aided by left-liberal activists and media–is analogous to a protection racket: Nice charity you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to it. The message to other Planned Parenthood donors is that if they don’t play nice and keep coughing up the cash, they’ll get the Komen treatment.
There’s one crucial difference, however. In a real-life protection racket, the victim never pays voluntarily. The threat is present from the get-go. By contrast, Komen presumably was not under any duress when it made its grants–and it could have avoided all this nasty publicity by never dealing with Planned Parenthood in the first place.
Thus smart prospective donors–especially ones that are apolitical, like Komen–are getting the message that supporting Planned Parenthood is a trap. Give once, and you will give again–or else you will pay.
H/T: Thomas Peters
Check out Jill Stanek's take on the situation and Bryan Kemper's post: Planned Parenthood Shakes Down Susan G Komen Like A Schoolyard Bully: Give Us Your Money or We Will Destroy You.
Update: Actually, they didn't reverse their decision. Instead, what we are seeing here is equivalent to a mafia shakedown.
Via WSJ columnist James Taranto:
Planned Parenthood’s bitter campaign against Komen–aided by left-liberal activists and media–is analogous to a protection racket: Nice charity you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to it. The message to other Planned Parenthood donors is that if they don’t play nice and keep coughing up the cash, they’ll get the Komen treatment.
There’s one crucial difference, however. In a real-life protection racket, the victim never pays voluntarily. The threat is present from the get-go. By contrast, Komen presumably was not under any duress when it made its grants–and it could have avoided all this nasty publicity by never dealing with Planned Parenthood in the first place.
Thus smart prospective donors–especially ones that are apolitical, like Komen–are getting the message that supporting Planned Parenthood is a trap. Give once, and you will give again–or else you will pay.
H/T: Thomas Peters
Check out Jill Stanek's take on the situation and Bryan Kemper's post: Planned Parenthood Shakes Down Susan G Komen Like A Schoolyard Bully: Give Us Your Money or We Will Destroy You.
Time to stop donating to TheKomen foundation. They have placed themsleves in this position. Their donations soared 100% over two days, no w it needs to fall 100%.
ReplyDeleteReally? Jill Stanek thinks "Nothing has changed. Komen is merely trying to to get some breathing room."
ReplyDeleteI have not given to Komen for several years ever since I found out they gave to PP.
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