No, That's Not the Right Answer

From the piece on Ezra Klein's Wonkblog about the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation's decision to cease giving money to Planned Parenthood:

Komen said it could not continue to fund Planned Parenthood because it has adopted new guidelines that bar it from funding organizations under congressional investigation.

This is a lie. It's not even a creative lie, although with today's media culture it might be good enough to just get parroted around the world. It's a lie because it presents the new anti-funding-organizations-under-congressional-investigation guideline as the cause. It's not the cause, it's the event. It's one of their own policies! Whose choice was it to impose this policy on the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation? It was their own damn choice! A choice made, moreover, at a time when it would have been obvious to all and sundry that the main upshot of that "guideline" would be defunding Planned Parenthood. They defunded Planned Parenthood because of these guidelines, but they adopted these guidelines because they wanted to defund Planned Parenthood. They have not given an answer to the question of why they wanted to do this, although it's not hard to guess given that the founder and CEO of the Foundation is a long-time Republican donor, about $100,000 to Republicans and right-wing causes since 1987 by my rough summation of the various donations, and apparently a known hard-core "pro-lifer." It's a solid guess that the reason they wanted to defund Planned Parenthood is that the person whose organization this is is enough of a rabid right-winger to just want to crush them for the sin of providing abortions. (With money other than that from Komen, I gather.) That's it. The guidelines are entirely a smokescreen.