It's interesting that Planned Parenthood is an organization that touts a woman's right to choose yet the recent assault against Susan G. Komen Foundation may have a rippling effect on many organizations' capacity to choose its own destiny. It's a bad precedent. There's a major issue that should concern all organizations that engages in collaborative networks and partnerships: Organizational Autonomy.
Planned Parenthood has effectively, through intimidation and fear of public reprisals, has restricted the freedom of the Komen Foundation. Every nonprofit philanthropic organization should have the freedom to pursue, make changes in its policies specifically regarding partnership with other organizations that shows mutual respect and trust. Planned Parenthood has violated that trust. The organization has achieved a pyrrhic victory insomuch it sent a message that if any organization (or individual) that associates itself with it in good faith, may not be able to exercise freedom of choice to disassociate without public reprisals.
Planned Parenthood has position itself as the proverbial tar-baby.
I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to
say it. "
--Voltaire"
Further Reading
Implosion of a brand - The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation
Book: Governing by Network -- The New Shape of the Public Sector by Stephen Goldsmith and William D. Eggers
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