Board of Directors: Stop Destroying Komen, Karen Handel Must Go!

Komen's Karen Handel Must Go

Hello,

I just signed the following petition addressed to: Susan G. Komen for a Cure.

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Karen Handel Must Go!

Susan G. Komen for a Cure has been a critically important organization in the fight against breast cancer. This week in a short-sighted decision, they almost destroyed their great organization by first cutting and then restoring funding to another life-saving organization, Planned Parenthood.

A driving force behind this purely political move was Karen Handel, who was hired by Komen last year as vice president for public policy after losing a campaign for governor in Georgia in which she stressed her anti-abortion views and frequently denounced Planned Parenthood.

As the current Senior Vice President of Public Policy and former Secretary of State for Georgia, she is a staunch anti-choice, republican activist who describes herself as a “pro-life Christian.”

Having run for the position of Governor of Georgia last year on an anti-abortion platform, she was endorsed by Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin. During her campaign, she said this: “First, let me be clear, since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood."

http://web.archive.org/web/20100921093610/http:/blog.karenhandel.com/2010/07/karen-handel-on-life-and-planned-parenthood/

Politics has no place in a debate about saving women's lives.

Karen Handel has to go. Demand that the leadership of Susan G. Komen do the right thing: accept her resignation or fire her immediately.


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Sincerely,

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