The Susan G. Komen For the Cure Foundation's website falls victim to a hacker. Someone broke into their computer system and made a headline on the website say "Help us run over poor women on our way to the bank."
The Foundation announced this week that it's pulling its grant funding for Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood calls the decision misguided.
"Planned Parenthood is on the front line, providing life-saving breast cancer screenings and cervical cancer screenings for a lot of women who would simply go without health care if it weren't for us," says Leola Reis, Vice President of External Affairs for Planned Parenthood Southeast.
The Komen Foundation's founder posted a video on its website explaining the $670 thousand grant cut.
"We must continually evolve and do a better job of measuring and achieving impact," says Nancy G. Brinker. "We have the highest responsibility to ensure that these donor dollars make the biggest impact possible."
On our Facebook fan page, Rob Schellinger defends the cut saying "If Planned Infanticide is such a worthy cause, let them raise their own money. Let the rich liberals pry open their wallets and fund it themselves."
Alyssa McKnight responds "So it's OK for women who can't afford cancer screenings to go without?"
Critics of the decision allege that Komen pulled the funding because Planned Parenthood provides abortions and birth control.
"The scurrilous accusations being hurled at this organization are profoundly hurtful to so many of us," says Brinker in her web video. "We put our heart, soul and lives into this organization."
Jojo Foster writes on our Facebook fan page "I'll support the SGK Foundation but don't want my money to be spent on abortions. Good move."
"Any of the funds that Planned Parenthood received from the Komen Foundation were used exclusively for breast cancer intervention," says Reis.
Reis also says that our region, which consists of Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, never received funding from Komen in the first place.
Planned Parenthood reports that its already receiving donations to offset the Komen cut. New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he'll donate up to $250 thousand of his own money.
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