Madison's Catholic Multicultural Center has been awarded a grant from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Madison affiliate [watch the news coverage here]. The purpose of the grant is to run workshops on breast cancer awareness for Latina women. The Catholic Multicultural Center is run by Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic parish in Madison, where former Gov. Jim Doyle, a pro-abortion Catholic, was known to receive Communion.
We are all praying for a cure for breast cancer, hoping for an end to the disease that has taken loved ones from us and made us all realize our own mortality. Catholics who choose to support breast cancer awareness organizations need to be attentive to the policies of those organizations.
Susan G. Komen has accomplished a great deal of good by taking the breast cancer issue to a national level. Unfortunately, Susan G. Komen also supports the work of Planned Parenthood, both on a national level and a state level.
Here's how Komen and PPWI are linked, courtesy of Pro-Life Wisconsin:
• The Madison affiliate of Susan G. Komen refers women to Planned Parenthood.
• Susan G. Komen of Milwaukee is listed as a major sponsor of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. Click here to view on PPWI’s website.
• In 2005-06, Planned Parenthood of Madison received $30,000 from the Madison Komen Affiliate; Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin received $42,077 from the Milwaukee Komen Affiliate; and Planned Parenthood of Milwaukee received $13,143 from the Milwaukee Komen Affiliate.
• In 2009, Komen awarded the exact same grant to Planned Parenthood.
The money Susan G. Komen gives to Planned Parenthood isn’t small change, either: “For our fiscal year ’09, Komen Affiliates contributed $731,000 to Planned Parenthood programs… For the past five years, $3 million went to Planned Parenthood programs from Komen Affiliates.”
Yesterday, Bishop Leonard Blair of Toledo, Ohio, directed that all breast cancer fundraising in his diocese be directed away from Susan Komen.