Comments on: Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure: Here’s how it can survive http://medcitynews.com/2012/02/susan-g-komen-race-for-the-cure-heres-how-it-can-survive/ Unique business news on biotech companies, new innovative medical devices Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:42:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Tom http://medcitynews.com/2012/02/susan-g-komen-race-for-the-cure-heres-how-it-can-survive/comment-page-1/#comment-312054 Tom Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:54:41 +0000 http://www.medcitynews.com/?p=122930#comment-312054 I also had dinner over the weekend with some women who have run for Komen. Women who campaigned for Obama. Women who detest folks like Palin.

They were not happy with Komen either. But not because Komen was political or beholden to the Right Wing – they were not happy ANY of their money went to Planned Parenthood.

Komen is going to lose both ways on this one.

]]> By: John Schaefer http://medcitynews.com/2012/02/susan-g-komen-race-for-the-cure-heres-how-it-can-survive/comment-page-1/#comment-312038 John Schaefer Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:25:26 +0000 http://www.medcitynews.com/?p=122930#comment-312038 > most of whom, I venture to guess, are also supporters of various feminist, pro-choice and generally liberal causes

I’d guess that this is true, too, but it should be either supported with hard data or acknowledged as a “guess” that’s informed mostly by the writer’s political stance.

*My* non-objective guess is that the issue-politicization cat is out of the bag, and isn’t going back in. Thus the only way forward will be for there to be separate organizations openly hewing (to a legally permissible extent) to pro-choice and pro-life viewpoints in regard to their use-of-funds decisions, and appealing to donors sharing their respective values.

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