Another Day, another "Pro-life" editorial in The Dallas Morning News [View all]

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http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/columnists/mark-davis/20120207-mark-davis-komens-self-created-nightmare.ece

Countless stories have been told over the years about some group or another caving to political pressure. But I can’t recall anything like the head-snapping few days last week when the same group was skewered for buckling first to one side of the political spectrum and then to the other.

But such is the self-created nightmare of the good people at Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation’s largest foundation raising money to fight breast cancer.

For the record, I am one of the pro-lifers who feel Komen caved under threats from radical pro-choicers who made it clear there would be hell to pay for their decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood.

The question fairly arises, then: Didn’t Komen similarly cave to pro-life pressure in the first place?

It sure didn’t look that way. The decision to redirect funds away from Planned Parenthood played out over a long stretch of time, containing many meetings large and small, many conversations pro and con. In the end, Komen made a decision based on what better served the women they seek to help.


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