Breast Cancer Awareness (photo by Charlene Holguin)

 Susan G. Komen Foundation has provided Planned Parenthood with funding for breast cancer screenings for many years. However, after some recent trouble between Congress and Planned Parenthood the Komen Foundation announced that they would be pulling funding from the organization, creating a huge amount of controversy and backlash.

“Planned Parenthood extremely important and needs all the funding it can get,” said Hanks nurse Patricia Dal. “They not only provide contraception but various types of life saving exams, such as breast cancer screenings and pap smears.”

A top official from the foundation even resigned in protest of the decision. ”I have dedicated my career to fighting for the rights of the marginalized and underserved,” Mollie Williams, director of community health programs for the foundation, wrote in an email to MSNBC. “And I believe it would be a mistake for any organization to bow to political pressure and compromise its mission.”

Although the Komen Foundation recently renounced its decision, the cutoff wouldn’t have affected El Paso either way. ”Our focus will continue to be on our mission, which is to help the underserved and uninsured get access, and to be able to pay for breast cancer services and that hasn’t changed,” said Stephanie Flora, executive director of the Susan G. Komen affiliate in El Paso.

She continued to tell KFOX that the Planned Parenthood ceased providing health care services in El Paso in 2009, and that the Susan G. Komen foundation will continue to give grants to all other organizations locally that they have funded in the past.