WILD THING: just want to clarify something about this komen business i haven't seen discussed yet
though it’s possible i just missed it, as i haven’t been doing a lot of deep reading on this yet.restricted grants (such as the grant from komen to planned parenthood) require organizations to only spend the incoming money on the thing the grant is for. that’s written into them. organizations like PP are also required by the terms of the grant to report ALL spending of grant monies back to the grantmaker, or NO MONEY WILL BE DISBURSED.
this means, for those of you who have never worked for a foundation or in a nonprofit, that ZERO ACTUAL REAL LIFE DOLLARS from komen went to abortions, birth control, or other heathen-y goodnesses.
meaning that what the people who are celebrating this defunding are celebrating is that millions of men and women will now go without breast exams and mammograms.
many of them will die.
THIS. THANK YOU. Anyone who has worked in grant-funded health care can tell you this.
The “good” news is that out of the 750,000 breast exams done annually, only about 34,000 of them were are funded by Susan G. Komen Foundation. So if the people who said they’d shift their donations elsewhere really do, the ability to keep examination statistics high is very achievable.
On a side epidemiological note: even if all the $$ went into one big vat, the populations of people who seek abortion services and the people who are advised to seek breast cancer screenings (age 50+) don’t overlap very much. Biology takes care of that. So you could always figure that the money wouldn’t fund things other than breast exams if the same rate of exams are done. But I work in health care, not politics, so maybe my math is different…
