Race For Cure Successful Despite Controversy
By: Big 2 News Staff
Updated: February 20, 2012
EL PASO -- The Susan G. Komen Foundation's Race for the Cure appears to be popular as ever despite recent controversy over the group's funding to Planned Parenthood.
Race organizers in El Paso say more than eleven-thousand people took part in Sunday's race and walk for breast cancer research.
That's about on par with the 11,500 participants in last year's El Paso event.
Sunday's race was the foundation's first event since sparking controversy this month by announcing it would cut funding to Planned Parenthood.
The move arose from the foundation's new policy banning funding to groups under investigation.
The foundation later reversed course and restored that funding.
(Copyright 2012 by VERTEXNews/Newsroom Solutions)
Race organizers in El Paso say more than eleven-thousand people took part in Sunday's race and walk for breast cancer research.
That's about on par with the 11,500 participants in last year's El Paso event.
Sunday's race was the foundation's first event since sparking controversy this month by announcing it would cut funding to Planned Parenthood.
The move arose from the foundation's new policy banning funding to groups under investigation.
The foundation later reversed course and restored that funding.
(Copyright 2012 by VERTEXNews/Newsroom Solutions)
