Now the American right has even hijacked breast cancer’s pink ribbon

Title: Now the American right has even hijacked breast cancer’s pink ribbon

Author: Hadley Freeman

Publication:  The Guardian

Date: February 07, 2012

Last week, Komen announced that it was withdrawing its $600,000 annual funding from Planned Parenthood, an organisation it has long supported, and which helps to provide breast cancer screening, prevention and awareness to lower income women in America, owing, Komen claimed, to purely “regulatory” reasons. On Sunday, the Huffington Post got access to emails suggesting that this decision was, as most suspected, political and motivated by Karen Handel, Komen’s recently appointed and avowedly anti-abortion vice-president for public policy.”

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