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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnother Day, another "Pro-life" editorial in The Dallas Morning News
http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/columnists/mark-davis/20120207-mark-davis-komens-self-created-nightmare.eceCountless stories have been told over the years about some group or another caving to political pressure. But I cant 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 nations 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: Didnt Komen similarly cave to pro-life pressure in the first place?
It sure didnt 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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Another Day, another "Pro-life" editorial in The Dallas Morning News (Original Post)
w8liftinglady
Feb 2012
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Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)1. You mean somebody still reads The Dead Sea Scrolls?
That's what I heard the Dallas Morning News called.
My uncle used to work for Mr. Dealey as in Dealey Plaza.
w8liftinglady
(23,278 posts)2. lol...Yes,some of us DO keep up with the traffic and weather.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)3. I sincerely dislike sites
requiring me to register to read a piece. I won't do it.
rurallib
(62,423 posts)4. content for subscriber's only BUT
I can guess from some of the comments that Davis used 2 of the rights standard tools:
1) ignore facts and
2) making up shit to make your story more compelling.
Seems to me that Komen started the fight. That was reported first by AP. I don't recall any co-ordinated effort by PP to foment a wild reaction.
The virulent anti-Komen reaction was about as grass roots as anything I have ever seen.
And now the Komen folks want to play the victim card, but they got to make the narrative fit our conclusion first.
Good-bye Komen!
DCKit
(18,541 posts)5. People from the Capital Punishment Capital of the U.S. shouldn't be arguing "Pro-Life". nt