TERRE HAUTE —
Planned Parenthood of Indiana will not be affected by Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s decision to halt grant funding to Planned Parenthood affiliates nationwide.
PPIN has 28 health centers statewide, including one in Terre Haute.
“We don’t receive direct funding from Komen, so there is no fiscal effect here,” said Jon Mills, PPIN director of marketing and communications. “It won’t affect patients in Indiana.”
The state organization is “disappointed” about the cutoff of funding affecting other affiliates, Mills said. “Historically, [Komen] has been such a close partner to us,” he said.
PPIN provided 14,131 breast exams statewide last year, he said.
Nationally, Komen’s decision will mean a cutoff of hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants, mainly for breast exams, according to the Associated Press.
Planned Parenthood says the move results from Komen bowing to pressure from anti-abortion activists.
But Komen says it has implemented stronger performance criteria for grantees “to minimize duplication and free up dollars for direct services to help vulnerable women,” according to a statement issued by the national organization.
The new policies have impacted some longstanding grantees, such as Planned Parenthood, the statement said. Komen stated it wanted to be “absolutely clear that our grant-making decisions are not about politics.”
Komen invests significant dollars in local community programs, including $93 million in 2011, which provided for 700,000 breast health screenings and diagnostic procedures, the statement continued.
Nationally, Planned Parenthood said the Komen grants totaled roughly $680,000 last year and $580,000 the year before, going to at least 19 of its affiliates for breast-cancer screening and other breast-health services, according to AP.
Planned Parenthood centers performed more than 4 million breast exams over the past five years, including nearly 170,000 as a result of Komen grants.
Joni Foulkes, administrator with the Vigo County Health Department, has concerns that politcally-motivated funding cuts mean fewer and fewer services available to women to make informed choices about their health.
“The more politics is involved, the less informed choices they have,” she said.
Foulkes has written grants to the Komen Foundation that have benefited the health department, and she has reviewed grants for the Komen Foundation.
She believes if an organization is able to demonstrate a need for a grant, has a good, objective way to evaluate its services and can demonstrate accountability, “Politics should not play a role.”
She said she would “hate” to see women denied choices about where they receive information or services “because someone doesn’t have the same political beliefs.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report
Sue Loughlin can be reached at (812) 231-4235 or sue.loughlin@tribstar.com.
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