October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 
While you may like to donate to breast cancer charities, American Life League wants to warn you to be mindful—not all of them align with your values.
Katie Brown, National Director of American Life League, tells AFN how you can find charities with the right values.
"So, American Life League has a program called the Charity Watch List, and what we try to do with this tool, it's a free online resource where we just give pro-life-minded donors an idea of what popular charities give to things that might not be in line with pro-life values."
Some breast cancer groups, on one hand working to preserve life, are not holding up well when the review finds them in line with pro-abortion groups.
Follow the money
"So, in the month of October, we're just raising awareness about some of the breast cancer charities that unfortunately have ties to organizations like Planned Parenthood. There are some that have ties to embryonic stem cell research."
One charity in particular is the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which Brown says has a very long history of providing money to Planned Parenthood.
"So, we're trying to let people know that, you know, that that one specifically, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, if you're looking to donate to a breast Cancer Research foundation, that's one to stay away from.”
Komen ended ties with Planned Parenthood in 2019 when Planned Parenthood came under investigation by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Florida) regarding its use of public funds for abortion. At the time, Komen cited its newly adopted criteria for prohibiting funding to organizations under government investigation.
However, it restored PP funding amid a backlash from its own supporters.
You can find the American Life League's Charity Watchlist on their website.
The good news is there are alternatives, one being a pro-life breast cancer research group.
“It’s called the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute. It's actually a pro-life breast Cancer Foundation. They are they here to pro-life values and they even go so far as to explain to women the link between abortion and breast cancer."
