Think Twice Before You Give to the Door-to-Door Cancer Research Canvassers

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski
WASHINGTON, D.C.
May 14, 2008

(LifeSiteNews.com) - The cancer research fund-raising season is well under way and many people, by contributing to door-to-door solicitation, cancer walk-a-thons and other venues for raising money, are unknowingly providing funds for human embryonic stem cell research.

One of the USA's major cancer research fund-raising groups, the “Susan B. Komen for the Cure” breast cancer organization, which endorses embryonic stem cell research and denies the connection between abortion and breast cancer as well as the connection between chemical contraception and breast cancer, has given significant sums of money to cancer research organizations which focus their efforts on human embryonic stem cells.

Komen's 2007 Parent tax return, indicates that the American Association for Cancer Research, whose research position statement says: "Stem cell research - including research involving human embryonic stem cells - is essential to the advancement of cancer research, according to a position statement adopted by the Board of Directors of the American Association for Cancer Research," received $2.5 million. the rest