Took them long enough...

[vettecat]

Komen Foundation reverses funding decision of Planned Parenthood
Let's hear it for (positive) peer pressure!

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[sethg]

It’s not necessarily a reversal. They are saying that Planned Parenthood will be eligible to apply for grants in the future, but those applications will not necessarily be approved. The whole reason the Komen Foundation got into this mess is that several of their top-level leaders have ties with the pro-life movement, which sees PP as The Enemy.

[sethg]

...specifically: Karen Handel, the Komen Foundation’s new VP for public policy, ran for governor of Georgia in 2010, and promised that if she was elected, she would eliminate state grants to Planned Parenthood for cervical and breast-cancer screening. More details and links here.