In a game of trust, Planned Parenthood emerged as the winnner

Susan G. Komen for the Cure sure stepped in the mud last week.

Komen, an organization with a major focus in fighting breast cancer, announced Jan. 31 they were severing funding to Planned Parenthood.

That was a big mistake. I don’t think Susan G. Komen knew what was going to hit them over the next few days.

It didn’t take long for the charity to officially apologize Friday and restore the funding that was to be used for breast examinations and related services.

The reasoning behind Komen suspending funding in the first place was their new rule about not funding an organization that is under local, state or federal investigations.

Planned Parenthood is under congressional investigation by Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., who is looking into whether it used federal funding for abortion services, which is not permitted.

Komen has since made stipulations about providing funding to organizations that have criminal, and not political, charges.

Planned Parenthood is an organization that helps give health-care access and breast exams to low-income and minority women.

Only 3 percent of Planned Parenthood’s funding goes toward abortion services, which are paid for by private donations and not government funds. At this point, that’s almost beside the fact.

In Komen’s official apology, it stated that their original decision Tuesday wasn’t a political move.

I don’t think the public bought it. Facebook was inundated with people changing their profile pictures to the statement, “I stand with Planned Parenthood.”

As I heard from a majority of women, ranging from family members to those who work at Planned Parenthood, the consensus was if it looks like a dead skunk, smells like a dead skunk, then it’s a dead skunk.

In this debacle, Planned Parenthood came out smelling like a rose.

There was a public outcry in the three days between Komen taking away funding and then reversing their decision.

Some of it even came from within the organization.

A group of 26 Democratic senators urged Komen to reconsider. In a letter issued Thursday, they wrote, “It would be tragic if any woman — let alone thousands of women — lost access to these potentially lifesaving screenings because of a politically motivated attack.”