Emails Show Handel Behind Komen's Planned Parenthood Decision: Report
Susan G. Komen for the Cure Vice President Karen Handel drove the foundation's decision to defund Planned Parenthood for purely political reasons, according to emails reviewed by The Huffington Post.
"The emails show that Karen Handel was behind the entire decision to defund Planned Parenthood," The Huffington Post's Laura Bassett told CNN's Soledad O'Brien Monday. "She was behind the strategy to develop the new criteria for who can be funded and she's been behind the PR effort to clean up what's happened since the decision was announced."
"What I understand is that Karen Handel, since she was hired back in April, has been kind of pumping up and magnifying the attacks against Komen and the anti-Planned Parenthood protests and whatnot, and trying to get the board and trying to get Komen leadership on her side as part of this decision to defund Planned Parenthood."
In a posting on her blog last year, Handel made no secret of her opposition to Planned Parenthood.
"First, let me be clear, since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood," she wrote.
In a video posted to YouTube last week, Komen’s Founder and CEO Nancy G. Brinker denied that politics played any role in the decision.
"It was a boldface lie," Bassett explained. "Karen Handel had a political agenda against Planned Parenthood. And I know that Komen founder Nancy Brinker went on Andrea Mitchell Thursday and said that Karen Handel had nothing to do with this; this was not political. That's simply not true. And if you're a cancer charity, you have no business lying to the public about what's going on behind closed doors."
While Komen reversed its decision on Friday and made Planned Parenthood eligible for future grants, many will not be satisfied until Handel is ousted from the organization.
CREDO action, a super PAC run by one San Francisco phone company, has already gathered over 24,000 signatures demanding that Komen fire Handel.
I am pro-choice but I would not have a problem with this if the SGK Foundation was upfront and honest about it. I now have an aversion to the color pink.
not another penny from me Komen....every cent now goes directly to PP.
And Ms. Handle is a cancer cell...in a position of power....her own private beliefs affect thousands of others...
America is growing so tired of these people who believe it's their calling to direct the lives of others,be it small proletariats like handle or politicians in general......when are we as a nation and people going to stop these cancer cells who would rather let their host die to spite themselves be in positions that affect so many people and out future......
Reminds me of Kathleen Sebelius.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297...
far left loon >.<
Did the nice lady ambassador and SG Komen CEO actually lie on national TV and to her good friend and social companion Andrea Mitchell?
I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I tells ya.
Ari Fleischer is involved with the organization should be a giant red flag that they have indeed been infiltrated with a distinct anti-choice as well as an anti-contraception agenda. If you want to help breast cancer affiliates, donate DIRECTLY to Planned Parenthood and cut out the middle-man---SGK. Nancy Brinker makes $500,000 per year as director--who knows how much they are paying Karen Handel and Ari Fleischer?....certainly more than they're worth.
Administration fees at SGK take up entirely too much a percentage of a charity like that.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Say what??? That's more than many small to mid-size company CEO's.
What a greedy whore. How about halving her salary and putting the rest toward helping more women?
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
Who's the Rick Santorum clone who's on the panel? I do not watch CNN.
. . . crisis communications since this broke WERE SNIVELING SMIRKING LIES?
Color me surprised (unless that's a corporate brand too).
Damned dirty Goopers.
Through my niece's sorority at Georgia State, I've been giving $50, twice per year for three years now. So now I find out that Komen is controlled by scum-sucking ChristoLizards... slithering out from under their rocks to surreptitiously push their smarmy political objectives. I might just as well have slipped a stack of $50's under some steaming pile of dog shit on a summer's sidewalk.
No offense, I hope.
Ignorance is parent to religion.
Religion is parent to Hate.
Remember Matthew Shepard:
http://vimeo.com/fuksnickityClam/matthew
Or you could have donated to Planned Parenthood and done more good than dog shit.
Planned Parent now gets my $50 X 2 contributions.
Ignorance is parent to religion.
Religion is parent to Hate.
Remember Matthew Shepard:
http://vimeo.com/fuksnickityClam/matthew
So is the Komen group about finding a cure for breast cancer but not about women's health? How can you be about finding a cure for breast cancer in women and against a group that does breast cancer screening? Everyone at Komen should be ashamed of themselves for what they have allowed their organization to become.
This is truly one of those you are with us or you're against us. If they are for the good health of women they can't at the same time try to stop some funding of another group that is actually helping women.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
This is the idiocy of the ultra-conservative, ideological mindset... even though PP does many, many good things that Komen agrees with, because they also occasionally support abortions they must be made defunct. Never mind that such a stance hurts women overall... they must be crushed because of stance on abortions... period.
Kinda like the American Cancer Society refusing donations obtained via a topless car wash, for 'principles'... really?
These are the real femanazis .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
You would think they might fire these right wing morons.
But you'd be wrong.
Because IOKIYAR.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
There are more alternatives to Komen than there are to Planned Parenthood... make your decision to donate accordingly.
Exactly. Donate somewhere else. Screw these people at Komen.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
Emails show Handel behind Komen’s Planned Parenthood decision: report
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
http://www.discountgunsales.com/walther-p-22-...
Oh yes, I am sure that SGK is telling the truth on that one! Even though they have not filed suit for company for misrepresentation of their name... I wonder why!
Yet another member of the chattering class tries to paint Planned Parenthood as the bad guy instead of the practically-for-profit charity that lied about its agenda.
But is she really the only one or just the biggest target to make this go away?
"this" won't go away, but the Komen Foundation just might.
Aint working too good......the repuke douche will probably take the fall..........ya right, as she pulls the rip cord on her pretty
pinkgolden parachute. These people are pathological liars, fire them all. They are nothing but a pass throughorganizationgrifter mob.The first casualty of republicanism is the truth.
Party politics are not only undemocratic, they are antidemocratic.
she is pro-birth. Just like all the rest of the so-called "pro-lifers".
Pro-life after the birth of a child? Not so much.
Religion will be the downfall of Humanity.
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Ignorance is parent to religion.
Religion is parent to Hate.
Remember Matthew Shepard:
http://vimeo.com/fuksnickityClam/matthew
'forced birth' is more accurate, IMHO.
me-oww!
Breaking Water Music.
haha
'Talk to the hand'
If only our vaunted and celebrated pseudo journalists would just make the connection that basic cancer screening could be available for all with single--payer health systems instead of relying on politicized charities.
But no, rich people conflict gets more ratings than poor people conflict.
Was pretty obvious right from the start , like after one reading of her back ground and her credentials , in fact all that was needed was one look at her .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
I pretty much knew that after seeing she calls pro choice people 'pro aborts.' That pink wearing faff arse wrecked Komen's program. Good for her, and good for them for letting her do it.
me-oww!
SGKF FOR THE LURE
Nice gig. Cancer research seems very expensive comparing all the decades funds have been collected for its cure. Prevention appears the most sensible route. Inserting political or religious ideology only adds to the misery index of suffers and lacks compassion. Komen execs created a major blunder that only a firing might avert a slow demise.
Well the woman is gone:|
http://channels.isp.netscape.com/news/story.j...
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