[net-gold] MEDICAL: DISEASES: CANCER: BREAST CANCER : ORGANIZATIONS : POLITICS: Karen Handel, Susan G. Komen's Anti-Abortion VP, Drove Decision To Defund Planned Parenthood
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- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 22:45:58 -0500 (EST)
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MEDICAL: DISEASES: CANCER: BREAST CANCER :
ORGANIZATIONS :
POLITICS:
Karen Handel, Susan G. Komen's Anti-Abortion VP,
Drove Decision To Defund Planned Parenthood
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Karen Handel, Susan G. Komen's Anti-Abortion VP,
Drove Decision To Defund Planned Parenthood
First Posted: 02/ 5/2012 4:22 pm
Updated: 02/ 5/2012 6:22 pm
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/05/
karen-handel-susan-g-komen-decision-defund-
planned-parenthood_n_1255948.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/7asqwra
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WASHINGTON -- 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.
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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.
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"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.'"
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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not be published, confirm the source's description of Handel's sole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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Handel's strategy to cut off Planned Parenthood involved drafting new
guidelines that would prevent Komen from funding any organization that was
under investigation by local, state or federal authorities. Since Planned
Parenthood is currently the target of a congressional inquiry prompted by
House Republicans into the way it uses government funds, the family
planning provider would have been immediately disqualified from receiving
new Komen grants.
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Americans United for Life and other pro-life groups have been pressuring
Komen for years to cut ties with Planned Parenthood because some of its
clinics offer abortions, even though none of Komen's money was used toward
abortion services. Handel's internal strategy, the Komen source told
HuffPost, was to exaggerate those attacks and use them to convince the
leadership that funding Planned Parenthood was a political liability.
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The backlash against Komen was intense, including threats of violence,
angry letters from members of Congress and public rebukes from political
figures such as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The charity struggled to
deal with the pressure, especially in a face-off against Planned
Parenthood, an organization whose fine-tuned political team has experience
in these high-pitched, high-stakes debates.
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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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