supporters of abortion rights demonstrate that they are just as zealous and fanatic as the anti-choice supporters.
Well yeah, because supporters of abortion rights are always harassing people going into churches and chaining themselves to the doors so people can't get in regardless of what they were going there for. And for sure the anti-abortion people need constant police protection because of death threats from Planned Parenthood supporters, and are worried about people bombing their offices, or killing them in church, or putting their names and addresses out on published death-lists.
So yeah, not giving a donation is just as fanatical as the other side. Perfectly equivalent.
The outrage is because SGK is using money people donated to fight breast cancer to advance an unrelated political agenda. It's all part of the mentality that: a) diseases like cancer (and AIDS), and indeed the entire range of issues around health care, are political and should be treated as such, and b) life begins at conception and ends at birth. To wit, unnoticed in all this was that SGKftc also cut funding to any and all institutions that are also involved in stem cell research, but no worries, no important health research was being done at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, The US National Cancer Institute, and The Society for Women's Health Research at Yale University.
Let's see, medical research eh, well sure I'd trust a failed candidate for governor in Georgia before I'd look to Johns Hopkins. Who wouldn't?
At any rate, it doesn't even matter if it's true or not because politics (like charity fund-raising) is about perception (you would think that with the overt political appointments that someone there would have known that, but perhaps that's why they were not elected in the first place, hence free to join SGK) and now this organization has been politicized. That politicization was intentional and now they are going to have to deal with the fallout. There are people who will now think twice about giving, not only individuals but the far bigger corporate sponsors. Do you think New Balance and Ford signed on for a public fight over Planned Parenthood? When Yoplait put a pink lid on its yogurt, did they do it to make it easier to boycott their products? Because that's what's going to happen. Unlike most boycotts, it's easy to figure out which products you shouldn't buy: anything that displays a pink ribbon with the Komen name.
Planned Parenthood has been - not just at the forefront - but pretty much the only organization providing health care for poor women. Actual care, not just raising money. In many states they are the only place that provides for abortions, so eliminating them is de facto banning abortions for people not rich enough to travel to other states to find it.
Though no one really likes it, it's not - as you would have it - some big extreme left wing position, but rather, a very mainstream one. The extreme position is the one advocated by some of the Presidential contenders that no abortions should be allowed, not even in the cases of rape and incest. Rick Santorum is quoted as saying: "I think the right approach is to accept this horribly created - in the sense of rape - but nevertheless a gift in a very broken way, the gift of human life, and accept what God has given to you." He added that rape victims ought to "make the best of a bad situation." That's an extreme position.
