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Stop Funding Susan G. Komen. Redirect Funding To Other Breast Cancer Advocacy Organizations.
At the same time Komen has been willing to be used as a “cover” to help their corporate friend fend off efforts by health advocates to demand the removal of toxic breast cancer connected chemicals such as BPA from consumer products. There are multiple examples of this ongoing manipulation and the most telling stories have been written about in publications such as Forbes and Mother Jones. This continued emotional manipulation of a horrific disease as breast cancer by Susan G. Komen cannot be allowed to continue. There are far too many other legitimate organizations working every day to fight for a cure and striving to ensure that no other person ever has to take on the fight against breast cancer. For African American women this decision by Susan G. Komen to defund breast cancer screenings is truly hard to accept. Each year over 27,000 African American women are diagnosed with breast cancer. The type of breast cancer that African American women are diagnosed with is usually the more “aggressive” form that provides for lesser chance of survival. That is why that although African American women are less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than other women, they are more likely to die from it.
The above reasons are why we believe that the time has come for us to ask those that provide the millions upon millions of dollars to Susan G. Komen each year to withdraw their financial support and redirect those funds to organizations that will not play politics with such essential life saving healthcare services such as breast cancer screenings. So you ask who should we contact and how? Here is just a small sample of the corporations who currently fund Susan G. Komen: Susan G. Komen Million Dollar Council Elite American Airlines Bank of America Belk Caterpillar Ford pink together/General Mills New Balance Rally For The Cure TPR Holdings, LLC Walgreens Yoplait Our experience is that for grassroots efforts such as these to catch on you need to focus on a few entities and educate them on your concerns. If you are able to convince one entity, such as Ford, that it is not in their or their customers interests that they continue to fund the political efforts of Susan G. Komen then other supporters will likely follow. With that in mind, we will focus our initial campaign efforts to redirect corporate financial support for breast cancer research, prevention and cures away from Susan G. Komen on Ford, New Balance and Walgreens. We have created an online petition at Change.org and we are asking everyone to sign on and share the petition link with family and friends. Please click here to sign the petition. Breast cancer is a serious health issue that should not be tainted by one organization’s decision to play politics on an unrelated issue. We have enough avenues of expression in our political forums for individuals and groups to express their concerns regarding any issue. The use of a non-profit organization such as Susan G. Komen as vehicle for political grandstanding on such a divisive issues as a woman’s right to choose an abortion should not be accepted. Beating breast cancer is too important to allow anyone to highjack efforts to fight it. Please join us in asking Ford, New Balance and Walgreens to end their financial relationship with Susan G. Komen and redirect those donations to other established breast cancer research, prevention and cure organizations. |
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The blatantly political decision by Susan G. Komen to drop their funding for breast cancer screenings provided by Planned Parenthood is one that cannot be accepted without a fight. For the past few decades Susan G. Komen has used breast cancer to manipulate the emotions of many women and men and turn that into millions upon millions of dollars of donations each year.
