Wrong! The American Cancer Society is worse. They fund embryonic stem cell research (experiments on humans who are then killed).
This is not so.
God Bless.
+Peace In Christ.
Love, Dawn
PS Here’s a link for Reference for Catholics:
hli.org/index.php/news/113?task=view
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After having actually worked with ACS for two years I can say that this shocks me. I asked them flat-out because we were trying to organize a Colleges Against Cancer chapter at a Catholic University and was told that “at this time we do not fund any doctors doing stem-cell research of any kind.”
This link merely lists ACS under the heading “Other Groups.” Now, that certainly bothers me and makes me question the answer I received from multiple sources within ACS, but it also makes me question the source of the information from the web site as well.
Not just “many in this thread” but anyone who understands that money is fungible. Why is that a matter for such delicate dancing around? If Komen funded hate groups, but the money was only ear marked for the hate groups to do highway cleanups or the like, freeing up more money for the hate groups to print racist tracts, the Catholic churches would be screaming to the rafters about the evil of funding Komen. But since they only fund a group that kills babies, we get a big yawn or we get rationalizations for supporting Komen. Even Catholics have become desensitized to abortion. The enemy is so insidiously clever and gaining allies from among our ranks.
The idea that Komen is funding Planned Parenthood via its contracts for breast cancer screening assumes that PP would provide the breast cancer screening without the PP funds. I am not sure that is true. Based on what I observed during the few years I worked for a small non-profit, programs which can’t find a funding source disappear. Without the Komen funding, PP chapters might not offer the screenings, which means no PP money would have been tied up in such a program. It is entirely reasonable to think that the Komen-PP connection does not free up money for PP, since no money would have been tied up in the absence of the Komen contracts.
Now, I admit I can’t prove the above scenario. My point is that the “money is fungible” argument regarding Komen and PP is equally hypothetical, with little supporting evidence.
However, I do think that PP benefits, from favorable publicity and the good will of their clients, by providing such screenings on behalf of Komen. And that alone is reason enough to oppose the Komen connection.
Both of these arguments have merit, however both are hypothetical.
At the end of the day donations of any kind to any non-profit organization can always be directed to a certain source. For example, if I want to donate money to my HS sports program, I don’t just write them a check. I fill out that check and any other necessary paperwork to ensure that the money goes to the sports program only.
American Cancer Society has this paperwork and will honor it. Komen
may have it as well, although since we can prove a definitive link with Komen to PP by sending anything to Komen you are ultimately “freeing up” money in their budget that can now be given to PP.
But imagine for a second if everyone gave to these charities but did so with restrictions, and convinced everyone else we know to do the same? We still live in a free-market economy, and as Dale has said the NPOs are still businesses with business finances. If they cannot find funding for a service they will cut the service (unless it’s the US government, who will only make cuts to education). If the group cannot get enough funding to pay employees and other expenses it will start letting them go. It’s as simple as that.
So regardless of WHO you donate to, ask for the paperwork if you have any kind of concerns. Limit what they can do with your money, and encourage your friends to do the same.
