A letter a former Georgia politician wrote today continued the fallout from the Susan G. Komen-Planned Parenthood controversy. Karen Handel resigned from her position as Senior Vice President for Policy with Komen. The letter is Handel’s first public response to the firestorm stemming from Komen’s original decision to no longer give Planned Parenthood money to screen women for breast cancer.
If Handel is viewed as being at the center of the controversy, her resignation letter is her way of saying she wasn’t alone. In the letter, she says the decision to pull breast cancer screening funding was QUOTE fully vetted by every appropriate level within the organization.
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