A Health Writer's Notebook

“We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.

The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not.

Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation. We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. That is what is right and fair. […]

We extend our deepest thanks for the outpouring of support we have received from so many in the past few days and we sincerely hope that these changes will be welcomed by those who have expressed their concern.”

— Nancy Brinker & the Susan G. Komen Board of Directors

It’s a complicated issue, but I like seeing how they listened to what people were saying, and responded immediately, rather than trying to bury things. I’d like to think it’s for moral reasons rather than risk-reward, but we shall see.

(Source: kateoplis)