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Led by Ultraviolet’s Campaign, Mounting Public Opposition Leads to Resignation of Karen Handel from Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Protesters gather outside Komen headquarters
About a dozen women Tuesday delivered petitions with 832,000 signatures to officials at the Susan G. Komen for the Cure headquarters in Farmers Branch, demanding that the charity continue funding breast health services for women. The women represented organizations Move.On.org, CREDO Action and UltraViolet. Leaders of the groups met with Komen officials for about a half-hour.
UPDATE 4-Komen VP steps down after Planned Parenthood flap
The progressive activist group, CREDO, and UltraViolet, an online community opposed to sexism, claimed credit for a joint petition campaign that collected tens of thousands of signatures calling for Handel’s resignation.
Komen VP steps down after Planned Parenthood flap
The progressive activist group, CREDO, and UltraViolet, an online community opposed to sexism, claimed credit for a joint petition campaign that collected tens of thousands of signatures calling for Handel’s resignation.
Hours Before Protest Planned in Front of Susan G. Komen HQ on LBJ, Karen Handel Resigns
Late yesterday we got word that several groups — including reps from MoveOn.org, CREDO Action and UltraViolet — are congregating at Komen’s LBJ HQ at noon today to drop off “petitions signed by nearly 850,000 people demanding that Komen not let anti-choice extremists get in the way of funding life-saving breast health care services for women.”
Can the Susan G. Komen Foundation Recover from its Planned Parenthood Missteps?
“Komen’s CEO, Nancy Brinker, has demonstrated a pattern of deliberately lying to the public about the facts about Komen’s decision to defund PP,” the Internet watchdog group Ultraviolet wrote in a statement to Yahoo! Shine.
“Siri’s iPhone Abortion Clinic Glitch: 5 More Tech Controversies”
Last week, Apple’s Siri for iPhone 4S ignited a firestorm when the personal assistant failed to locate local abortion clinics.
“The Siri Backlash is here”
Last week’s abortion “glitch” was the latest in a series of embarrassments for Apple’s bot. Apple apologized(-ish) for the issue, but the half-hearted statement and unchanged software has yet to quell the anger. The criticisms still continue via petitions , including one at SignOn.org that got over 30,000 signatures in 48 hours, petition author Nita Chaudhary told CBS News. Unfortunately, the abortion-query problem is just a micro representation of a macro problem: Siri just doesn’t work that well.
“Siri’s abortion glitch critics still waiting for a fix”
Last week a firestorm broke out over the iPhone 4S’s personal assistant Siri’s omission of abortion clinics.
“Petition To Correct Siri’s Apparent Anti-Abortion Bias Collects Nearly 30,000 Signatures”
In the past 24 hours, more than 27,000 people have signed a petition asking Apple to stop iPhone voice assistant Siri from directing women to anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers” when they ask where to get an abortion.
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