Is this Komen's fall from grace? Or is this the the beginning of the fall of the Komen Empire?
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.20.2012
Two top executives at Susan G. Komen for the Cure have announced their resignation, amid reports that the breast cancer charity is struggling to raise...
Paul Clolery | Posted 04.14.2012
Komen's controversy regarding the decision to pull money from Planned Parenthood was ill-advised, mistimed and strategically inept. The blame must be put at her doorstep as founder and chief executive officer.
Jennifer Hamady | Posted 04.14.2012
Villainizing the entire organization is a mistake. It ignores, and dismisses, the services Planned Parenthood provides that we all -- regardless of our political views -- can agree are important.
Nancy Wurtzel | Posted 04.09.2012
Over time, Komen may find its footing and continue to prosper, or it will be permanently damaged by recent events. My feeling is that we've not heard the last of this issue, but time will tell.
Jeffrey Campagna | Posted 04.09.2012
Eve Ellis, the former board member of Komen NYC who last week urged progressives to stay "far away" from Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is not ready to put the Planned Parenthood fiasco behind her.
Anu Kumar | Posted 04.07.2012
Would so many individuals -- 'Racers for the Cure' and celebrities alike -- rise up in protest? My guess is no, they would not -- and this is the power of the stigma around abortion. When access to health care is limited by money or geography, we cannot afford to limit it further with politics.
Mother Jones | Adam Serwer | Posted 02.02.2012
The Susan G. Komen Foundation, which recently announced that it is ending grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening because of a contro...
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 02.03.2012
Dr. Kathy Plesser, a Manhattan radiologist on the medical advisory board of Susan G. Komen for the Cure's New York chapter, said she plans to resign f...
Dan Dubno | Posted 04.02.2012
Instead of "Racing For a Cure" and helping women in need get adequate health care, women are being treated as political pawns in the business-as-usual election mud fight. Shame!
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 02.02.2012
Stacey Tillman, a 47-year-old woman from Sandusky, Ohio, says she has donated over $300 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure each year for the past nine yea...
Joe Waters | Posted 06.06.2011
Cause marketing isn't perfect. But we need to weigh the results of a study involving 300 college students with the tremendous growth and generally positive reception cause marketing has received.
Posted 05.25.2011
Last week, the progressive blog Firedoglake called on Susan G. Komen for the Cure to drop Sen. Joe Lieberman's wife Hadassah as its "Global Ambassador...
Nancy Davis | Posted 04.02.2012