Nancy G. Brinker, Founder and CEO of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation (Creative Commons)

• 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.
  
• Our only goal for our granting process is to support women and families in the fight against breast cancer. Amending our criteria will ensure that politics has no place in our grant process. We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities."

Though the Komen foundation stressed that their decision earlier this week to cut funding to Planned Parenthood was for budget reasons and not political ones, the foundation was met with backlash as their own top executives resigned in protest.  Among those were Mollie Williams, Komen's top public health official, and Deb Anthony, the executive director of Komen's Los Angeles Chapter.

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