Planned Parenthood goes into areas after hurricanes and natural disasters and hands out free condoms. That may sound foolish to some, but in areas where disasters occur, nine to twelve months after an event, the birth rate explodes. People have little else to do...

As a supporter of Planned Parenthood, I was happy to see Komen back off.

Also put the blame on Karen Handel, the right-wing vice president who recently joined the staff at Komen, and who drove the decision to defund Planned Parenthood. She's the mole. Komen should have known better from the git go.

The issue about abortion and birth control (particularly as pushed by Santorum) is to punish women who are sexual. That is sanctimony at its most insidious and it is mind control at the basest level. Incidentally, Santorum's position on contraception is to criminalize it for everyone, including married couples.

As for the Komen/PP flap, Mayor Bloomberg of New York City is my hero. The same day he heard about Komen withdrawing funding, he donated $450,000 of his own funds to Planned Parenthood.

Komen took this position, I believe, after they acquired a vice president who is Right Wing and pro-life. Apparently this woman has a great deal of backing and influence. I would have told her to get lost.

If the pro-life people had seen how desperate woman can get, they would not
oppose abortion. When I grew up it was a back street operation and many
deaths resulted. A poor woman who can barely feed the kids that she has does
not need another one. We have population booming all over the world and India and Africa particularly need to be educated about birth control. This is not a male issue and they should just but out.

Huge fiasco for Komen. I'm still concerned that Komen will kill funding after 2012, and there is another web social media campaign underway about that. I pulled my donation to Komen and sent it to PP. Komen has lost thousands of donors, and PP has increased its donor base dramatically, which is good.

I guess Republican MEN don't use birth control, so it's easy for them to tell everyone else how to live.

well I am not too up on this.But what I hear from you can understand.I know that this was all over the TV.They have like you said been very helpful in the Awareness of Breast Cancer.
But there is always someone out there making noise.There and Here.Do we need a population explosion think not.

I thought it was the whole 'giving women contraceptives' that caused the whole controversy and the abortion money was just a branch of that?