Komen Get It

Komen Get It - WSJ.com: In last spring's budget deal, funding for Planned Parenthood was the one subject on which President Obama refused to compromise. Thus Planned Parenthood is most accurately characterized as a political organization, a combatant in the culture wars, with some sidelines in women's health. One of those sidelines occasioned the partnership with Komen that has now turned into an ugly split.

. . . Planned Parenthood's bitter campaign against Komen--aided by left-liberal activists and media--is analogous to a protection racket: Nice charity you've got there. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it.

The message to other Planned Parenthood donors is that if they don't play nice and keep coughing up the cash, they'll get the Komen treatment. There's one crucial difference, however. In a real-life protection racket, the victim never pays voluntarily. The threat is present from the get-go. By contrast, Komen presumably was not under any duress when it made its grants -- and it could have avoided all this nasty publicity by never dealing with Planned Parenthood in the first place.

Thus smart prospective donors -- especially ones that are apolitical, like Komen -- are getting the message that supporting Planned Parenthood is a trap. Give once, and you will give again -- or else you will pay.

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