Why do some people not like Susan G. Komen for the Cure?
Posted Apr 6, 2012, 7:17 PM UTC
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Susan Koman decided to pull funding for planned parenthood centers, apparently due to political beliefs in their roll in birth control, abortions, and other such things. Planned parenthood centers also do a lot with women's health issues such as breast cancer screenings, which is why Koman was involved in the first place. People go pissed, Koman looked generally bad, and supposedly "reevaluated" the decision.
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- They like to sue anyone else who uses "for the cure"
- They recently announced they would no longer be associated with Planned Parenthood, then quickly flip-flopped when there was some backlash, resulting in both people for and against Planned Parenthood being upset with them
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Why do you like her?
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More recently, the SGK people pulled funding from Planned Parenthood for political reasons, like JangusKhan said. People pretty much jumped on them for putting politics over the breast cancer concern that was supposed to be their primary drive.
But even before that, they've been a bit sketch.
For example, they've trademarked the term "for the cure" and they will sue your tiny little Susie-Q-Memorial-Race-For-The-Cure or whatever that you try to host to raise money.
They are pretty bad about "pinkwashing", where your perfume or handbag or trashcan will be pink or have a pink ribbon on the box, and the company plasters "we make donations when you buy!!!" all over the product, and then donates $1 out of your $200 purchase (price of non-pink version, $180).