WHOOMP! There it is (SGK backs down)
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Komen backs down, more or less apologizes. Folks, when you have everyone from moms on Facebook to Mayor Bloomberg telling you that you fucked up, it's time to admit it.
Backing down on this one issue is good. Focus #1 is prevention, saving lives, improving healthcare for women. Getting grants back in place to make screening and treatment available to more women will help with that.
But I think we need not to lose sight of Focus #2, which is that the people and priorities that led to this decision are still in place. Komen will have to do some work to rebuild trust and show that its charitable agenda is not hewing to particular political lines. Maybe some cleaning house of personnel responsible for such a grossly erroneous move is also in order. Something more needs to happen, at least before I'm willing to give more of my dollars to Komen.
Komen backs down, more or less apologizes. Folks, when you have everyone from moms on Facebook to Mayor Bloomberg telling you that you fucked up, it's time to admit it.
Backing down on this one issue is good. Focus #1 is prevention, saving lives, improving healthcare for women. Getting grants back in place to make screening and treatment available to more women will help with that.
But I think we need not to lose sight of Focus #2, which is that the people and priorities that led to this decision are still in place. Komen will have to do some work to rebuild trust and show that its charitable agenda is not hewing to particular political lines. Maybe some cleaning house of personnel responsible for such a grossly erroneous move is also in order. Something more needs to happen, at least before I'm willing to give more of my dollars to Komen.
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Date: 2012-02-03 08:13 pm (UTC)