Today the Susan G. Komen Foundation pulled a 180 on its decision to defund Planned Parenthood. The Komen organization was no doubt swayed by the scathing blog post I wrote just the other day.
Although SGK regrets the furor that was kicked up by its original decision to disqualify groups under any type of investigation, the group might not actually restore funding to Planned Parenthood. You can read the official SDK statement here and make up your own mind. The key phrase has to do with the criteria for locking funding; under the newly revised policy, "disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political."
That's a pretty obvious admission that the "investigation" into Planned Parenthood is a political move and nothing more.
No word about the status of SGK money going to Penn State University, which is currently under criminal investigation. Oh well.
Hopefully this whole mess has taught SGK that basing its policies on political pressure leads nowhere good. And maybe, just maybe, they learned that a lot of us hate mixing politics with cancer research policy. See, cancer don't care if you're right wing, left wing, or independent.
Cancer health care dollars shouldn't care either.
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