Howard Dean: Komen foundation caves to pressure in barring Planned Parenthood funding

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http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20120201/NEWS02/120201032/Howard-Dean-Susan-G-Komen-Planned-Parenthood?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE

One of the nation’s top breast cancer charities caved to the “far right” and showed a lack of courage by pulling funding for breast cancer prevention programs at Planned Parenthood, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean said Wednesday.

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Mary Hahn Beerworth, executive director of the Vermont Right to Life Committee, said the Komen foundation’s financial support to an abortion provider had long upset people opposed to abortion and kept some from crossing the starting line in the Race for the Cure.

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Vermont’s 10 Planned Parenthood health centers don’t receive any Komen funding and neither do the additional 10 clinics in Maine and New Hampshire that are part of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. So the Komen decision won’t immediately affect local clinics.

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“By caving in to pressure from the far right, the Komen Foundation has demonstrated that they lack courage,” Dean said in a statement distributed by Democracy for America and posted to Dean’s Facebook page. “Organizations which lack courage eventually fail. I support calls for the corporate donors to re-evaluate their support for Komen so that consumers aren’t forced to re-evaluate buying their products.”

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1. Those Fright-Wingers, always "Pro-Life".

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2. Komen foundation may find itself

Out of funding - and business - in just a few years. Unless they fire that cretinous ass from the dark ages!

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3. I posted his full statement in the Democracy for America Group:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1105127