Top Susan G. Komen Official Resigns After Planned Parenthood Flap

Can we all finally go back to donating to the American Cancer Society? They don't spend all this money on marketing and they are dedicated to the cause of curing ALL cancer. Oh, and no past/present relationship to PP.

We should continually look at all of these huge charities to see where the money is actually going. Greed can work its slimy fingers into anything, that's what it's good at.

How strange that even though she had nothing to do with it, she resigned.

Komen gives 20% of the donations to the cause. The rest is eaten up in administrative salaries and marketing. They are a very effective, massive marketing organization. If you really want to help, go give your money directly to a hospital or to PP. These charities sometimes get too big for their own good. Look at the Red Cross controversies over the years....

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Personally, I think Handel''s statement is full of misrepresentations and is a disingenuous attempt to whitewash herself. II'll be very interested to see if the Handel debacle has a permanent effect on SGK. They have certainly lost my support, as I no longer have confidence in them, and there are other organizations that I can donate to.

women are often embarrassed to talk about STD with a family dr, PP is a great place to get checked. I used PP myself in college many times for that. (condoms dont protect against all STD). never got birth control or an abortion there. close PP, and you cut off that option for young women, and STD rates will rise again.

Komen should have kept out of politics. They will never fully recover from this.

someone finally made the right call. As much as she denies it - she knows she was to blame for this fiasco. She has no business being involved in charity OR politics for that matter. Now if netflix would just fire Reed for his stupidity. netflix used to be cool. but for both organizations...the damage has been done. I will give my money DIRECTLY to those in need. I am no longer going to finance hatred and politics with SGK. have you seen the salaries they make? 25 cents or less out of every dollar goes towards those in need. The rest buys big homes and fancy cars for "admin". In the future I will go into a hospital and talk with the patients and hand them my money DIRECTLY!!! As a bonus I will KNOW whom I am helping! and those in need will no longer have to jump through hoops to get it. They have enough on their plates already!

Nancy Brinker and Karen Handel made this decision and Handel is the one falling on her sword. Brinker was the leader who made this happen and she must also resign. The organization is damaged and will not recover until the head of the snake is cut off.

Komen complete lack of spine on this issue has cost them this donor.

Only TWENTY-SEVEN CENTS from your one dollar ever makes it out of Komen for research or cancer prevention. If you're happy with that, then keep giving to Komen. They've been a fraud for years now and should be investigated.

What they should have done, if abortion was the reason was 1st was put ads out saying that Komen was thinking of pulling funding for this reason and that the foundation didn't want to offend givers by telling them, but they needed to make sure of where money was going before pulling funding. Let that circulate around the net for a week, then when they pulled the funding it would not have looked as political--- but this was an unthoughtout political move that backfired--- their support is gone and anything they do now just seems desperate!

They choose to side with a minority position due to the pressures, threats, and political tactics used to force the defunding of PP position. Then they say this was not a political decision. This is fuzzy republican math. 1+1=3 IT WAS and IS POLITICAL

No more pink for me. All about the $$ and politics.

Well, she should. Koemen should have stayed nuetral, and funded only breast cancer issues, and not got into the dirty political side which is always cropping up now....can't do anything good any more cuz people are complaining about it.

Their efforts are proof of what's wrong with America and our health care system.
Too much $ spent on cancer fighting and insufficient $ on woman's health services.
Only 3 percent of Planned P.operations are abortions, the rest womans health and contracep
Our health care run by big corporations is too expensive****

Whichever side you are on, I think that up until now no one even considered that they were funding what most people would consider "politically activist" causes. They opened a can of worms, it will polarize their former support base, and there is NO way to put the lid back on that Pandora's box...

This resignation still does not address Komen's problems. Komen should shutdown and let other more independent charities take charge. The color for breast cancer is not pink.

want to ruin a good recipe? just add politics.

"Karen Handel, a former Republican gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, denied in her resignation letter that she had anything to do with the decision to end funding for Planned Parenthood, which she says was made under guidelines formulated before she was hired."

Is that rain or is somebody peeing on my head?