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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHoward Dean: Komen foundation caves to pressure in barring Planned Parenthood funding
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20120201/NEWS02/120201032/Howard-Dean-Susan-G-Komen-Planned-Parenthood?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGEOne of the nations top breast cancer charities caved to the far right and showed a lack of courage by pulling funding for breast cancer prevention programs at Planned Parenthood, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean said Wednesday.
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Mary Hahn Beerworth, executive director of the Vermont Right to Life Committee, said the Komen foundations financial support to an abortion provider had long upset people opposed to abortion and kept some from crossing the starting line in the Race for the Cure.
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Vermonts 10 Planned Parenthood health centers dont receive any Komen funding and neither do the additional 10 clinics in Maine and New Hampshire that are part of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. So the Komen decision wont immediately affect local clinics.
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By caving in to pressure from the far right, the Komen Foundation has demonstrated that they lack courage, Dean said in a statement distributed by Democracy for America and posted to Deans Facebook page. Organizations which lack courage eventually fail. I support calls for the corporate donors to re-evaluate their support for Komen so that consumers arent forced to re-evaluate buying their products.
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Howard Dean: Komen foundation caves to pressure in barring Planned Parenthood funding (Original Post)
cal04
Feb 2012
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FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)1. Those Fright-Wingers, always "Pro-Life".
mzteris
(16,232 posts)2. Komen foundation may find itself
Out of funding - and business - in just a few years. Unless they fire that cretinous ass from the dark ages!
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)3. I posted his full statement in the Democracy for America Group: