How Komen Became a Political Tool

Title:  How Komen Became a Tool

Author:   William Saletan

Publication: Slate.com

Original publication date: February 7, 2012

Karen Handel has resigned from the Komen foundation. Handel, a pro-lifer who was blamed by insiders for the foundation’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood, says the decision was driven by Komen’s need to avoid controversy, not by politics. But you can’t have one without the other. If you refuse to fund organizations embroiled in controversy, you invite their enemies to make them controversial. In so doing, you make yourself political.

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