The Pink Ribbon Campaign~Are We Funding Breast Cancer?

The Pink Ribbon Campaign
Are We Funding Breast Cancer?
October 28, 2010 Chuck Colson
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Susan B. Komen for the Cure, formerly known as the Susan B. Komen Breast
Cancer Foundation, is a big promoter of the pink ribbon campaign. It
raises money for breast cancer detection and research, and it awards
grants to many worthwhile programs.
But as the Life Issues Institute points out, "In a counterproductive
twist, Komen is also funding a group that actually promotes a possible
cause of breast cancer."
The cause? Abortion. The group? Planned Parenthood.
According to Life Issues Institute, in at least 22 states, Komen
affiliates send donated money directly to Planned Parenthood-- $3 million
dollars over the last five years. This money frees up Planned
Parenthood's own funds for other purposes-such as promoting the morning
after pill and performing abortions.
Komen for the Cure denies the abortion-breast cancer link. But many
studies seem to confirm it. For instance, Dr. Joel Brind, an
endocrinologist and founder of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute,
found that "choosing to end a pregnancy through an induced abortion,
especially the first pregnancy as a teenager, significantly increases
breast cancer risk."
Dr. Janet Daling, a cancer epidemiologist who supports legal abortion,
says, "I would have loved to have found no association between breast
cancer and abortion, but our research is rock solid, and our data is
accurate." And in 2007, the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
found that women who have an abortion increase by 40 percent their risk
of breast cancer.
Many Americans who buy those pink bracelets may not be aware of the
strong Links between Planned Parenthood and the Komen foundation. Komen
founder Nancy Brinker once served on the advisory board of Planned
Parenthood of Dallas. One Komen Advisory Board member, Eve Sanchez
Silver, resigned when she found out how just how strong the link was
between Komen and the nation's Number One abortion provider. Shockingly,
Silver says the Komen Foundation's "Concern for the heath of women is
now parallel to Planned Parenthood's concern for the health of the
children that they abort." Those are strong words.
The Komen Foundation also endorses embryonic stem cell research, which
kills human embryos.
Odd as it may seem at first glance, the link between abortion and breast
cancer is evidence for the truth of the Christian worldview. The
scriptures teach that murder is wrong in God's eyes, including the
murder of those who are being knit together in their mother's womb. We
should not be surprised to learn that abortion, which involves a sudden
disruption of the mother's natural physical processes, carries with it
the seeds of destruction for mothers, as well.

If you want to support breast cancer research-a very worthy cause--check
out the Polycarp Research Institute http://www.polycarp.org/
Breast Cancer Prevention Institute. http://www.bcpinstitute.org/

But before you donateto any organization, do your own research.
And when you see people wearing those pink ribbons, tell them that you like raising awareness of breast cancer, but caution them that they're funding an outfit that may actually be increasing the breast cancer rate: Planned Parenthood.