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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.'' |
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Fire the lot
by Rob Kall on Monday, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:47:26 AM
Here is another example...
by John Sanchez Jr. on Monday, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:04:16 PM