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Karen Handel Needs to Resign
Monday, February 6th, 2012
"If we just say it's about investigations, we can defund Planned Parenthood and no one can blame us for being political."
That's what Komen for the Cure's Vice President of Public Policy Karen Handel told staff when she led the organization to defund Planned Parenthood's grants -- a decision that has been at least temporarily reversed as of Friday. But Handel is still the top policy-maker for the organization, and according to reports isn't sorry about the fallout caused by her decision -- in fact, according to sources who spoke with Laura Bassett of the Huffington Post, she fought the reversal every step of the way.
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