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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKaren Handel, Susan G. Komen's Anti-Abortion VP, Drove Decision To Defund Planned Parenthood
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/05/karen-handel-susan-g-komen-decision-defund-planned-parenthood_n_1255948.htmlWASHINGTON -- Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation's leading anti-breast-cancer charity, has insisted that its since-reversed decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood arose from a routine change in criteria for grant eligibility that had nothing to do with abortion politics.
But a Komen insider told HuffPost on Sunday that Karen Handel, Komen's staunchly anti-abortion vice president for public policy, was the main force behind the decision to defund Planned Parenthood and the attempt to make that decision look nonpolitical.
"Karen Handel was the prime instigator of this effort, and she herself personally came up with investigation criteria," the source, who requested anonymity for professional reasons, told HuffPost. "She said, 'If we just say it's about investigations, we can defund Planned Parenthood and no one can blame us for being political.'"
Emails between Komen leadership on the day the Planned Parenthood decision was announced, which were reviewed by HuffPost under the condition they not be published, confirm the source's description of Handel's sole "authority" in crafting and implementing the Planned Parenthood policy.
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Stunned by the fallout, Komen leadership decided within three days to reverse the Planned Parenthood decision and apologize. But the Komen insider said Handel was furious about the cave and fought against it up until the point that it was announced Friday morning.
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Dear Karen, end of the line for your Republican gravy train.
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Karen Handel, Susan G. Komen's Anti-Abortion VP, Drove Decision To Defund Planned Parenthood (Original Post)
deminks
Feb 2012
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Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)1. Sorry Karen no one was fooled.
No one was fooled by the phony non-apology either. It's ok though cause you made over half the women in this country angry very very angry and those dollars will be going to places that spend the money for researching cures instead of doling it out to whom ever kowtows to their whims.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)2. Why, I'm shocked! Shocked, I say!
But seriously. Did anyone think this came from anywhere else? It's like walking into the old mansion and seeing Col. Mustard standing in the parlor, standing over the corpse holding the candlestick.
Of COURSE she did it.