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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum commented on Susan G. Komen‘s funding of Planned Parenthood yesterday, telling Fox News that he doesn’t think they should fund the country’s top abortion-provider, given that abortions cause cancer. Confused? Us, too. He doesn’t provide much evidence or reasoning for his statements, but that’s probably because it would be pretty tough: Studies have shown that there is no link between cancer and abortion, and Planned Parenthood provides far more breast cancer screening than they do abortions.
In the video below, Santorum expounds on Susan G. Komen’s decision to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood (which it backtracked on last Friday):
…Planned Parenthood funds and does abortions and I don’t believe that federal funds should go there. They’re a private organization, they should stand up and support whatever they want. I don’t believe that breast cancer research is advanced by funding an organization that does abortions when you’ve seen ties to cancer and abortion. I don’t think it’s a particularly healthy way of contributing money to further the cause of breast cancer but that’s for a private organization like Susan B. Komen [sic] to make that decision.
Two out of four statements here are true; two are false. Do you know which they are? Let’s review:
1. Planned Parenthood is the leading provider of abortions in the U.S. — True. But statements like this also undervalue the rest of what Planned Parenthood does, of which abortions are a very small portion. Abortions are only 9% of what Planned Parenthood does. Breast cancer screening, on the other hand, is 16% of what it does.
2. Abortion and breast cancer are linked. — False. Because of the hormonal changes brought on by pregnancy, many have sought to find a connection between abortion and breast cancer. But studies have not found a link. According to cancer.org:
Linking these 2 topics creates a great deal of emotion and debate. But scientific research studies have not found a cause-and-effect relationship between abortion and breast cancer.
3. Giving money to Planned Parenthood is an unhealthy way to further the cause of breast cancer. — False. Planned Parenthood provides breast cancer screening to millions of women; their abortion services don’t diminish that or cause cancer, as Santorum suggested. Criticisms of the organization for providing abortion are political and moral, but calling them “unhealthy” is far off the mark.
4. Susan G. Komen should support whatever they want, because they’re a private organization. — True. Enough said.
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Regarding the comment that “…Planned Parenthood provided far more breast cancer screening than they do abortions.” This is simply not true.
If a woman walks into Planned Parenthood in response to the copius media attention to their “free mammograms”, the woman will be referred to one of the many outside agencies, usually governmental, that do the screenings for free. Planned Parenthood does not pay for these, and they will, if cornered, admit as such.
I know this to be a fact beause I am an RN that volunteers in a free health clinic for people with no insurance nor ability to pay. We get referrals from Planned Parenthood for mammograms. Do we have a mammogram machine? No, we don’t. We have volunteers, such as myself, that come in on their own time, on the weekends, etc. to do the administrative legwork to connect people to the already existing free resources.
Refer to the Center for Disease Control for more information about free screening:
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/nbccedp/index.htm
Cut out the middleman, and get women in touch with the services that they need, from the office that can provide it. Planned Parenthood is simply using the free service of someone else, to make it look as if they are a “health” agency. They are not.
Planned Parenthood is simply about keeping an organization alive that exists for the sole reason that there is a demand, and money to be made, in the killing of a person that is inconvenient; a person who has come to be, because someone could not accept the responsibility and self-discipline to abstain from engaging in the activity if they are not willing to accept that this activity can lead, that we all know, to the creation of a human life. Women, and men, have “a choice”, but that choice comes long before the existence of a child. It is wrong that it is currently legal for “killing” to be a choice.
Abortion is the new slavery issue. Just as the murder of a slave was legislated to be legal at one time, the murder of any human being was erroneously made legal in 1973. Roe vs. Wade is the contemporary Dred Scott decision, and will eventually be rectified.
Just going to go out on a limb here, Jeff, but as an RN, I figure you know the difference between “screening for breast cancer” and a mammogram. You don’t need fancy equipment to screen for breast cancer—just hands.
To: Jeff J – the “RN”,
Your politics is showing, your bias toward Planned Parenthood and CHOICE is showing, and your ignorance on the subject matter is showing…
Anything else you care to show us?
For the record, I am NOT an abortion supporter – I am a supporter of CHOICE, a woman’s right to choose. And God knows, with RN’s like you – a woman needs ALL THE CHOICE she can get!!!
“Just as the murder of a slave was legislated to be legal at one time, the murder of any human being was erroneously made legal in 1973. Roe vs. Wade is the contemporary Dred Scott decision, and will eventually be rectified.”
Whether you believe a fetus is a human being or not (which I am not looking to debate here), surely you don’t actually believe that Roe v. Wade allows the murder of *any* human being, right?
Umm, then how did I get a cervical and breast exam for free? And you only get a mammogram if you at risk or over 35 WITH health insurance, so the doctor’s exam is what matters. Glad you aren’t my RN.