The following comes from a September 6 story in the Sacramento Bee.
Criticizing major players on both sides, Karen Handel, former Susan G. Komen for the Cure vice president, has written a blistering insider’s account of the prominent cancer charity’s decision to halt grants to Planned Parenthood and its swift retreat in the face of an intense, widespread backlash.
Titled Planned Bullyhood and due for publication Tuesday, the book depicts Planned Parenthood as an aggressive, partisan organization that was willing to weaken Komen to further a liberal political agenda. However, Handel – a conservative who resigned from Komen after its reversal – also assails Komen’s leadership as indecisive, timid and politically naive, and says the hasty decision to backtrack was “a terrible mistake.”
Handel was hired by Komen as vice president for public policy in April 2011 after losing a Republican gubernatorial primary in Georgia, and was given the task of figuring out how to disengage Komen from Planned Parenthood. The grants from Komen were for breast-cancer education and screening, but the charity was under increasing pressure from anti-abortion groups and religious conservatives to cut all ties with Planned Parenthood because, in addition to its other services, it is the nation’s leading provider of abortion.
Late in 2011, Komen made a final decision to halt the grants, which totaled $680,000 that year, and its president, Liz Thompson, informed Planned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards, of the decision in mid-December. However, the rift did not become public knowledge until Jan. 31, when the Associated Press broke the news….
A major complication, according to Handel’s book, was that Komen’s leaders struggled to pinpoint how they would publicly justify halting the grants to Planned Parenthood.
On one hand, the cancer charity sought to develop new criteria that would disqualify the Planned Parenthood grants on the grounds they were not cost-effective. Handel also determined that the grants could be suspended on grounds that Planned Parenthood was under investigation at the state and federal level, notably a probe launched by a conservative Republican congressman at the urging of anti-abortion groups.
During the three days after the grant cutoff was reported, Komen was inconsistent in efforts to explain its move – citing the investigation angle initially, the granting criteria at later points, and, in Handel’s view, damaging itself with changing messages.
Another key point in that tumultuous week came on Feb. 2, when Brinker granted an interview to Andrea Mitchell of NBC News.
Handel says a session held that morning to prepare Brinker was “complete pandemonium,” and the Komen CEO headed to the interview “dazed and unsure.”
Handel’s book is being published by Howard Books, a division of Simon and Schuster with a focus on evangelical Christian themes.
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Komen organization thought thay Planned Parenthood would agree to an amicable split and would not go public in anger? When you dance with the devil, you can never be so naive to think that leaving the dance would be easy. Sounds like Handel, from this article may have hit the nail on the head. Komen wasn’t convicted enough, fence sitters will be ravaged and definitely “dazed. It is all about the money anyway, it never was about abortion, or they wouldn’t have caved like scared little rabbits….
If this book is as compelling as its title, it will be a must read. I realize that naming a book is generally not a privilege granted to authors any more, but this title is a masterpiece of creativity in communication.
The folks a Planned Parenthood should be indicted for murder and or genocide!!!
Thomas that can never happen if you continue voting for Obama
But TEM… PP are a homosexualists best friend. Without fail, libs will always eat their own.
God has already doomed such souls … their only hope is in Jesus Christ, Who demands they turn away from their sins.
Remember that President of the United States Barach Obama is determined to use his executive orders to keep millions of taxpayers’ dollars flowing to “Planned Bullyhood”, even in states which try to cut funding for America’s #1 abortionists!!!
Comments to inform and encourage the good readers of CALIFORNIA CATHOLIC DAILY are important, but are partly “singing to the choir”.
PLEASE click on the link from this story to the story in the SACRAMENTO BEE by Associated Press writer David Crary and make some good comments in the SACRAMENTO BEE where many people need to learn the truth about “Planned Bullyhood”!
Until Komen (which had been a decent organization) stops supporting the murderious Planned Parenthood, Catholics may not donate to Komen.
This is unfortunate.
BULLYING seems to be the favorite sport of americans today.
whether it’s the story above, or children in our schools…ick.
Of course Planned Parenthood is a “bully” organization. It is a twin to the Democratic Party in its emphasis on promoting the “Culture of Death”. It will do anything to further that cause.
“Planned Bullyhood” great title, wish I had though of that.
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Correct me if I’m wrong. Susan G. Komen for the Cure was founded to
fight breast cancer in women. Wasn’t it discovered that abortions are
harmful to women’s health because they increase the percentage of
breast cancer among other things? Why would Komen contribute to
something that is counterproductive to their cause?
Joan, you are correct. There have been other former Komen higher ups who have spoken out in regards to this very subject and have exposed how Komen purposefully ignores the Abortion/Breast cancer link.
Joan Planned Parenthood is known to be an excellent bully. That’s why. I Guess Komen group is not really up to the challenge.
Although, I have survived cancer three times over the last twenty-one to twenty-two years, I have never given to the Komen Foundation since they give to Planned Parenthood. Instead I gave directly to the cancer ward of a Catholic Hospital when I could. It was one that had a pro-life section to help women who were in a crisis pregnancy. It also had doctors who encouraged Natural Family Planning for those married couples who truly needed to use it and also encouraged breast feeding, all of which helps keep down breast cancer and other types of female cancers and medical problems. They helped everyone, including some Muslims women. Go green! Go natural! Boycott the birth control pill. it is deforming our fish from the estrogen in the urine that cannot be gotten out of our sewage system, too.
Abortion bullies people. It just dawned on me that I have to admit that I have been bullied. I didn’t realize this until I realized this.
Speaking about hormone contaminants in drinking water, look what it’s done to the politicians … if any souls have been deformed theirs are at the top of the heap.
I wonder if there is a greater incidence of alzheimer’s and old age dementia in politicians than in society at large.