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A high-ranking official resigned Tuesday from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity after a dispute over whether the group should give funding to Planned Parenthood, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.

Karen Handel, the charity’s vice president for public policy, told Komen officials that she supported the move to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood. She said the discussion started before she arrived at the organization and was approved at the highest levels of the charity.

“I am deeply disappointed by the gross mischaracterizations of the strategy, its rationale, and my involvement in it,” Handel said in her letter. “I openly acknowledge my role in the matter and continue to believe our decision was the best one for Komen’s future and the women we serve.”

Handel said in the letter that the now-abandoned policy was fully vetted by the Komen organization. Its board did not raise any objections when it was presented with the proposed policy in November, Handel said.

Handel had supported a decision that Komen announced last week to exclude Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of abortions, from future grants for breast-cancer screenings because it was under government investigation. The charity cited a probe launched by a Florida congressman.

The breast cancer charity furiously backpedaled from its decision after it created a three-day firestorm of criticism. Members of Congress and Komen affiliates accused the group’s national leadership of “bending to pressure from anti-abortion activists.” Komen’s founder and CEO, Nancy Brinker, has denied this charge.

According to Life News, Komen released a statement from founder Susan Brinker accepting Handel’s resignation, saying, “Today I accepted the resignation of Karen Handel, who has served as Senior Vice President for Policy since April 2011. I have known Karen for many years, and we both share a common commitment to our organization’s lifelong mission, which must always remain our sole focus. I wish her the best in future endeavors.”

“Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s mission is the same today as it was the day of its founding: to find a cure and eradicate breast cancer,” Brinker writes. “We owe no less to our partners, supporters and, above all, the millions of people who have been and continue to be impacted by this life-threatening disease. We have made mistakes in how we have handled recent decisions and take full accountability for what has resulted, but we cannot take our eye off the ball when it comes to our mission.”

“To do this effectively,” Brinker added, “We must learn from what we’ve done right, what we’ve done wrong and achieve our goal for the millions of women who rely on us. The stakes are simply too high and providing hope for a cure must drive our efforts.”

Until Tuesday, Handel had publicly kept silent about her role in the dispute.

“Neither the decision nor the changes themselves were based on anyone’s political beliefs or ideology,” Handel said in the letter. Rather, both were based on Komen’s mission and how to better serve women, as well as a realization of the need to distance Komen from controversy.

In her resignation letter, Handel said the controversy surrounding Planned Parenthood was long a concern to Komen officials.

However, anonymous sources claim that the “staunchly anti-abortion vice president for public policy“ was ”the main force behind the decision to defund Planned Parenthood and the attempt to make that decision look nonpolitical,” according to the Huffington Post.

“Karen Handel was the prime instigator of this effort, and she herself personally came up with investigation criteria,” a source, who requested anonymity for professional reasons, told the HuffPo. “She said, ‘If we just say it’s about investigations, we can defund Planned Parenthood and no one can blame us for being political.’”

Brinker, in an interview with MSNBC last week, said Handel didn’t have a significant role in the policy change.

Handel, a Republican, ran for Georgia governor in 2010, winning an endorsement from former vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Handel then lost a primary runoff to former Georgia Congressman Nathan Deal, who won the general election.

Throughout the campaign, Handel emphasized her postion on abortion.

“I am staunchly and unequivocally pro-life. I believe in the sanctity and inherent dignity of human life, and I will be a pro-life governor who will work tirelessly to promote a culture of life in Georgia,” Handel said while campaigning in 2010.

“I believe that each and every unborn child has inherent dignity, that every abortion is a tragedy, and that government has a role, along with the faith community, in encouraging women to choose life in even the most difficult of circumstances…. since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood.”

Update — Watch Karen Handel address the Komen fallout via Fox News Insider:

Read the full text of Karen Handel’s resignation letter here

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Comments (228)

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  • dannyo
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:08pm

    i’m thinking po people need to stop voting for dems so days not po anymo..dems dems keeping the black man down..

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:39pm

      the komen foundation should be prosecuted for taking money under false pretenses[fraud].neither abortion,contraception or sex ed has any thing to do with breast cancer. Any doctor can give someone a referal for a mamogram-no exam needed.I don’t trust any charity now to be what they say they are[except jimmy carters' habitat for humanity cause he has the integrity to stand up for the occupied palestinians even as he gets reviled for it].I’d rather give money to homeless appearing people where at least i know the money i give to them is for them.This charity raised billions by lieing to people telling us this was about breast cancer.PP did some referals so komen could say they were involved with cancer. What an evil scam-people thinking they‘re helping fight cancer when they’re helping murder innocent living human fetuses .Outrageous.

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    • mils
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:19pm

      i don’t know what an abortion has to do with screening or breast cancer..
      HOWEVER, it all seems to be a scam…our medical community is no where near a cure for breast cancer.
      ..it’s obviously too profitable to keep women ill and dying..why should they find a cure?
      Where does all the money go?…no one will tell us, but it’s sure not found a cure in all these years..
      I think SBK will have less and less money to donate to PP..

      .also, Planned Parenthood.. WHERE , state/city, are the most abortions preformed, and on what ethinic group? also, for what reason??? birthcontrol, life or death?…why???
      People need to know where there money is going i not to the research for breast cancer..
      .
      OH, and Jimmy Carter is a freakin dork.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 7:27pm

      .
      She resigned for letting the cat out of the bag.
      All the time the Koman foundation is begging for money,
      they actually have so much they are giving it away to unknown receipients.
      Tell the truth, did you know Komen handed money to planned parenthood?
      If I wanted to donate to Planned Parenthood, I could have done so.
      Just another charity scam.
      .

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    • KAdams
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:11pm

      Wrong Rose_Troll. Studies have shown an increase in the risk of developing breast and/or cervical cancers from oral contraceptive use. While the risk of uterine/ovarian cancers are down due to the use of those same contraceptives, Komen does not fund research to cure uterine/ovarian cancer. Get a clue, please, before posting your drivel.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:25pm

      As far as I’m concerned, they were in the abortion business and begged, borrowed and stole from us gullible women who thought it was for Breast Cancer cure, while all the time they were giving vast amounts of money to PP who’s main job is abortion. They might say differently, but when they are responsible for many thousands of abortions each year, they were making a living off us gullible people supporting the wrong cause. I’m throwing away everything with a pink ribbon on it, pins & all.
      Fool me once…………………..

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    • troopsupporter
      Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:44am

      I prefer to keep my money and spend it on quality, organic food that is not laden with pesticides, etc.
      I’m a firm believer that we need to be careful of what we put in, and on, our bodies. BTW if Komen has so much money why don’t they just open up their own “breast cancer” screening clinics and get out of Planned Parenthood?

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  • Ranger G
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:08pm

    The VP was right; Komen is tragically wrong. And today there are yet more revelations of just how dirty PP is: http://www.adfmedia.org/files/StearnsReport.pdf

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    • Clive
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:20pm

      alliance defense fund, well that report is super legit, no bias there ranger!

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    • stacykay
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:25pm

      That report is unbelievable……so wrong on so many levels. What does Obama always like to say….“we all need to play by the same rules”. What a joke.

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    • ADNIL
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:31pm

      Thanks for the link. I read about half….and was totally appalled but not surprised. I had my own relationship with PP back in the 80s until I realized they were only providing lip service for “health” care when I really needed a doctor. I never went back to them.

      It’s funny how fast Komen back-pedaled when all those with thier fingers in the cookie jar started complaining. I want to know why.

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:45pm

      Hey clive

      Why dont you support your bias claim with proof?

      Oh yeah, just label everything bias- even if its true. No supporting docs needed.

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  • BostonHarold
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:01pm

    Does this mean no more annoying hot pink cleats on football players to raise awareness?

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  • bobbie22
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:00pm

    I thought we or foundations had the freedom to choose whom we give money to ..Planned Parenthood and it’s ilk bully our freedom. Welcome to the Socialism…

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    • RightThinking1
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:20pm

      More like “Welcome to Nazism”. This administration and its fellow traveling leftists increasingly appear to share the bully-boy tactics associated with the rise of fascism in Germany.
      The media should have been all over this in defense of Komen, but no, they fueled the fire. The same thing is true regarding the declaration by O. that Catholic hospitals must follow his fiats regarding birth control.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:03pm

      Ahh, obama… a.k.a., King Henry the VIII-th !
      If the Church doesn’t agree with you, it is your enemy.
      Destroy its foundation.
      FORCE religion to follow YOUR ethics and values.
      FORCE GOD to bow to YOUR demands, don’t humble yourself before Him.

      Has anybody checked his head for a tattoo?

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    • Clive
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:25pm

      This is called capitalism. This is the free market. If they defunded planned parenthood, they would lose more contributors. money talks. libs weren’t satisfied enough that they got their way, they want blood, someone had to pay. Capitalism.

      I don’t think you understand what socialism is.

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    • Capitalist Mama
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:26pm

      I can’t quite figure out how PP needs all these grants.

      Every time someone defunds them, the liberals get all up in arms about what a great service PP is. If they are so great, why can’t they make enough money in charitable donations? Why should they need the government hand outs, and the support of better organizations? Surely, if they are so wonderful, liberals would be throwing *their own* money at PP.

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    • KAdams
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:20pm

      I don‘t think it’s capitalism to bully an organization to continue a business relationship, when said organization doesn’t agree with the policies of the business partner. On top of that, the partner then smears the organization and covers the media with false accusations as to the reasons why said organization stopped the relationship, at which point, the organization has no choice but to cowtow to the demands of the partner and the misguided public.

      Yeah. That’s capitalism. Where did you learn economics again, Clive?

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  • krjones
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:00pm

    Not another dime from my family. I have a sister and a niece that has developed breast cancer this year but I will ever give to or support the Komen foundation again.

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    • JayCee
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:57pm

      There are more diagnosed cases and deaths from prostate cancer than breast cancer yet breast cancer funding far exceeds prostate cancer funding.
      Same for lung cancer versus breast cancer.
      I give to ACS and cancer causes that are not so narrowly focused.
      Komen should have never shaken hands with the Planned Parenthood tarbaby.

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    • thegrassroots
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:11pm

      Research is revealing more and more that women having abortions are at a greater risk for breast cancer; which explains breast cancer showing up in much younger women since roe v wade in 1973.

      Also, women ARE NOT BEING ADVISED of the breast cancer risk associated with abortions.

      And yet, Komen has been in bed with Planned Parenthood and I‘m sure I’m not the only one who wasn’t aware of their association with PP.

      Komen Has Lost My Family’s Support As Well.

      God Bless You, Karen Handel, For Standing Up!

      Hopefully, from the Komen fall out, there will arise an organization truly interested in finding a breast cancer cure; an organization who will not betray its supporters by forming alliances with the devil.

      Removing Yourself From PP Was The Right Thing, Komen. You Should NEVER Have Been Using My Komen Donations To Support PP In the First Place.

      Komen Is So Lacking In Integrity That It Caved At PP’s Temper Tantrums.

      Thank You Komen For Revealing Your True Color, Which Isn’t Pink! The Komen True Color Is Yellow!

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    • bigspike
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:06pm

      Komen‘s gotten the last dime they’ll ever get from me or mine…if i WANTED to contribute to PP, i’d write THEM a check

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    • KAdams
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:24pm

      @Grassroots:

      There is no link between abortion and the increased risk of breast cancer. There IS, however, an increased risk involved with long-term oral contraceptive use. Which PP provides for free, in most cases. I would think Komen would see that, and stop their funding legitimately, although, Komen really isn’t any better, since the advocate for mammorgrams… as if getting doses of radiation through your breast tissue doesn’t contribute to that increase in risk. People don’t die from cancer…. they die from the cancer treatments. Clues, anyone? I have clues for sale… People really need to get one, or even a few. Now that’s capitalism!

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  • discus02
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:58am

    Wow on one hand they want to save people from the brutality of breast cancer but contribute to the murder of the unborn. Good and Evil total opposites!

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    • usnpops
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:49pm

      Planned Parenthood’s Breast Cancer screenings are exactly what a woman can do for herself, or get done by her Primary Care Physician at a normal Physical. So them saying they are so big on this is ludicrous. If there is anything found, they send you to a place where you can get a Mammogram, same as your PPC would.

      They do not do Mammograms as they want folks to believe.

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  • Spyderco
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:57am

    Why does the pro-life person always have to back down? We should support these people and encourage them to stay in positions where they can make a difference. We must find a way to pull the plug on Planned Parenthood’s murdering for profit.

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    • bigspike
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:17pm

      because, apparently, the only right that matters to the Ruling Class is the right to kill babies-it supersedes the right to worship (the 0baMaocare attack on the Catholic Church) and the right of an organization to decide how it’s going to spend its own money…i keep hearing the word ‘choice’ thrown about…but the only ‘choice’ that is respected by the Left is the ‘right to kill’…look at Palin; a conservative, who could reasonably be expected to garner the usual disdain from the Left-but she chose life for Trig-and that ENRAGED the Left-similarly, Tim Tebow’s mother; she chose life, and was vilified by the Left-and check the Left blogosphere re: Santorum’s wife, and you’ll find similar vitriol-the Left‘s message of ’choice’ is this: “KILL that ‘inconvenient, less than perfect infant’-or face the consequences!”

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    • KAdams
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:27pm

      Simple: Planned Parenthood is the ‘sacred cow’. Anyone that attacks them are wrong.

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  • eric6161
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:51am

    I was grocery shopping last night and was asked by the cashier if I’d like to make a contribution for breast cancer. She was wearing a pink ribbon. I told them that I would love to support breast cancer research but I didn’t know where to donate since Koman was now just another venue for destroying future women of America… and I could never support anyone’s choice to murder another human being.

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    • Locked
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:58am

      Ugh, you’re one of those people.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:06pm

      ERIC—
      The same thing happened to me at a local drugstore. My response was I CANNOT support ANY organization that supports abortion. The clerk looked confused but then again she had tatoos and piercings—-Maybe she doesn’t care about abortion. I could personally care less.

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    • union20
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:11pm

      Best reply/comment ever.

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    • USAMEDIC3008
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:13pm

      Replace your pink ribbon with
      a black ribbon
      When asked ?
      It’s for all PP kill every year

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:20pm

      @LOCKED

      Ugh, your’e one of those people that say………ugh, your’e one of those people.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:47pm

      Hooray, you’re one of those people!

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    • readytostand
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 5:22pm

      @locked. No, more like – Ugh! Your one of THOSE (evil, ignorant) people!! Wake up from your demented stupor! People with morals and values DON’T (knowingly) fund to help an organization murder innocent babies!

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  • AmazingGrace8
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:50am

    I agree with Bill O’Reilly and his comment awhile back regarding PPH. Komen should have directed PPH that any money from Koman SHOULD NOT provide funding for abortions(reported 300,000 a year). Tragic about the 2 innocent boys dying by the hands of their father but 300,000 innocent babies KILLED…not because they remember seeing their mom in a trunk.

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  • JoeFriday
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:49am

    Pre-Menopausal/Post Menopausal women are not farmily planning. If they are poor, their doctor thru their state’s medicare refers them to the X-ray mammogram facility. PPH does not serve a role here.

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:10pm

      Other than to collect money for- skim some, then refer patient to a hospital. That is pph’s part.

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  • fidel1234
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:47am

    What a scam,how many years have they been operating and I’m as close to a cure for cancer as them,along with the american cancer society,what a joke,they have been milking millions out of the public for years with no results whatsoever. Another thing how can the Komen foundation be trying to preserve life and at the same time have no problem terminating someone’s life at the same time,someone once told me truth is stranger than fiction.

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  • SheriS
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:47am

    This long time supporter of Koman foundation, they have received the last donation from me! I will not be a party to Planned Parenthood and will make sure none of my money ever goes to them. I threw away the Koman forms when I heard about this horrible disaster. If I had any idea they were ever involved with PP they would never have received one cent from me!

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  • Diomasach
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:41am

    Can someone tell me why a breast cancer foundation was giving money to an organization that has nothing whatsoever to do with breast cancer in the first place?

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    • TAXEVERYONE
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:46am

      Brinker and the board must go !!!

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    • Locked
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:49am

      Planned Parenthood does physical breast cancer screenings and gives referrals for mammograms. Komen’s funds to them go toward these efforts.

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:50am

      Cause the Planned Parenthood clincs were providing breast cancer screenings to poor and uninsured women and they were providing assistance with mammograms for those that can’t afford them.

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    • JRook
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:54am

      Actually it is pretty clear from Handel’s statement, the statement from Brinker regarding her resignation that Handel was pushed out or rather given the option to resign rather than be fired. So I’d say she had a lot more to do with the decision than she is admitting. Interesting that her character would allow her to misrepresent what did and has happened.

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    • bernbart
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:48pm

      Planned Parenthood does more breast cancer education and breast exams and than any other organization that Koman gives grants to. Planned Parenthood’s main focus is providing primary and preventative health care to under served women. The so-called pro-lifers, who are really not that pro-life, or any more pro-life than those of us who believe in reproductive choice, have been spreading LIES about PP for decades. The millions of women who at one time or another in their life received health services unrelated to abortion at PP knows how much the ANTIs LIE.

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    • HowTruthHurts
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:21pm

      PPH has been caught on tape multiple times acting against the law and their own so-called caused. All other medical services PPH claims to provide are nothing more than smoke & mirrors to hide their murdering agenda. PPH supporters know this.

      ALL MEN & WOMEN WHO SUPPORT PPH & MURDERING CHILDREN DO SO NOT FOR WOMEN BUT FOR THEIR OWN SELFISH AGENDA

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    • fluffychainsaw
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 6:50pm

      @bernbart. eleven years ago my 18 year old girlfriend and i went to planned parent hood to get some counciling, to give us courage to tell our parents my girlfriend was pregnant. every person at that place told us to have an abortion. not one person brought up adoption or having the child and dealig with the consiquences of our decision. we did not listen. we now have a ten year old child with down syndrome, and have been married for ten years. it was not easy, but killing a life, because it would make our lives easier was not an option.

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    • KAdams
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:35pm

      @Bernbart

      If PP’s sex education and awareness programs were so FABULOUS, they wouldn’t have to resort to murdering, on average, 300,000 babies per year.

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:39am

    Hmmmm… Watch Komen’s donations plummet. What’s really sad is… All the millions that are donated to Cancer research…. The numbers haven’t changed one iota.

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    • hi
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:50am

      I know. They are going about it the wrong way and need to think outside the box.

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    • KAdams
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:50pm

      Yeah. Too bad all the money went to PP, and none to research. Sad.

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  • cemerius
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:33am

    Ahhh so Planned parenthood’s 3% of services outside their “slaughterhouses” is identified?

    Real simple vocabulary here:

    Planned Parenthood = Abortions

    What part do we NOT understand?

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    • CatB
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:45am

      Exactly .. they don’t provide breast cancer screening .. they refer women to other facilities .. they are an abortion provider.

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  • hillbillyinny
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:30am

    When you lie down with dogs you may get fleas, but when you lie down with Satan you WILL get burned!

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  • cessna152
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:27am

    Did she leave because of her conscience or was she threatened? Knowing Planned Parenthood, she was threatened as life means nothing to them.

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:53am

      She has no conscience, she is a mindless right wing political drone who placed her own politics above the mission of the organization that employed her.

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    • HowTruthHurts
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:19pm

      PPH is filled with selfish, hateful men & women (like ENCINOM) who will do anything (including killing their own children) for their agenda. I would not be surprised if she were threatened. If people can support the murdering of millions of innocent children, why would they be reluctant to threaten?

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    • cessna152
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:11pm

      Encidope,
      I am amazed how naive you are…do you [even] have a clue? Did you know that humanist regimes (like yourself) have killed over 250,000,000 INNOCENT people in less than 100 years? Yeah, you’re so tolerant and loving that you and your ILK kill to forward your agenda.

      PUTZ! What a waste…

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    • psychokittis
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 7:02pm

      I hate to tell you this Encinom, but her politics had nothing to do with it-and you know it. S he had a bout of conscience. What most prople is that there are 37 separate studies, including one by Planned Parenthood proving that abortion causes breast cancer. Those studies show that if a woman has more than one abortion, she will get cancer. If she comes from a family with a history of breast cancer, and has one abortion, she will get cancer. It would be counterproductive for Komen to continue giving to an organization whose main service causes the very disease that they are trying to find a cure for.
      As to PP’s little tantrum over being cut off, they ignore that fact that Komen is under no obligation to fund them. Any private person , company or charity can use their resources as they see fit.
      Speking of that, I’m going to recommend to my wife that she cease suypporting tha race for the cure until they stop funding baby murder, inc.

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    • KAdams
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:54pm

      @Cessna
      Psst…. you’re feeding the troll. People like Rose_Dork and Encimoron are just trolls, they really have no relevant input, and are, simply put, attention whores. (w h o r e s) in case it’s censored… which I wouldn’t put past the Blaze.

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  • momrules
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:27am

    Abortion is and will always be a sin against God. Karen Handel is a woman with integrity.

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    • GardenoftheGods
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:45am

      AMEN! Karen Handel has always stood for her principles; and may God Bless her for doing so!

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:52am

      Handel placed her own twisted politics before the healthcare of women and the organization she worked for.

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    • HowTruthHurts
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:21pm

      Abortion has killed millions of today‘s and tomorrow’s women!!

      ABORTION IS ANTI-WOMEN!!!

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    • Shrugged
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:38pm

      Handel placed the sanctity of human life ahead of a front organization’s political lies.

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    • CleanUpAisle2013
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 8:08pm

      I have pondered over submitting this but until the truth is told … and shown … about abortion then those who do not know will never view “abortion” as murder. If this gets me banned, so be it. Sometimes the truth is painfully gut wrenching. Warning: Graphic in nature. Emphasis on the word “nature”.

      “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these …”
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHOwGY-W7MU&feature=related

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  • hi
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:26am

    The good news is that women now know that Koman funds abortions and they will not participate or donate to Koman, only the pro-murder women will.

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    • CatB
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:46am

      Yes .. I have already contacted them and told them I will not give them another dime.

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    • TAXEVERYONE
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:49am

      You are absolutely right!
      They have committed financial suicide.
      How incredibly stupid!

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    • Armed Patriot
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:29pm

      Susan G. Komen for the Curewill never see another cent of mine. The Red Cross and various other medical charities routinely give money to politicians, such as nobama. Check out thier donations before you make them. You might be finacially supporting things you might not want to.

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  • slr4528
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:16am

    What this should tell many organizations is to steer clear from even thinking about donating money to planned parenthood because if you decide to withdraw funding you will be tarred and feathered by the liberals in Congress and the media.

    I will never donate to Komen’s group. I will donate directly to Cancer clinics and to Cancer research and not to some charity like Komen who gives money to clinics that in turn fund abortions.

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    • Sugabee
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:22am

      Also, if you choose to give directly to ANY medical charity (not just cancer), if you are pro-life, make certain they do not support fetal stem cell research; as opposed to adult stem cell research.

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    • hi
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:29am

      Also, many vaccines are made out of aborted fetuses. Make sure your kids don’t get those. It is not only unethical, but injecting another person‘s proteins into one’s body can cause auto-immune diseases.

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:12am

    Karen will be rewarded for her stance for those without a voice. I can‘t wait till Komen comes a knockin’ for psas and free pub on my radio station–ain’t gonna happen. {:

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:18am

      OT question: Have you ever interviewed Ann Barnhardt?

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    • Steelhead
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:20am

      ain’t gonna happen- that’s great Tran but women are still going to get breast cancer

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    • TRONINTHEMORNING
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:37am

      I don‘t think I’ve talked to Ann; and yes, Steel, breast cancer will be around–always other ways and means to help.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:10am

    A “Hostile Takeover” of one’s Volunteer Funding Support… is an INSANE Reality!

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  • Steelhead
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:09am

    good- she clearly was acting on her own and not for the health of all women

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:26am

      Was she not acting to defend the health of unborn females? Why do you feel they are undeserving of consideration?

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    • Rowgue
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:27am

      Yeah because studies have shown that having abortions are good for women.

      Or are you so stupid that you actually believe planned parenthood provides actual healthcare?

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    • The Jewish Avenger
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:31am

      …

      nevermind…

      I disagree with that statement and we’ll leave it that MmK?

      AH I CANT!!!!

      Abortion is not looking out for the health of the woman! AND abortion is suspected of possibly causing BREAST CANCER? That’s like having The American Lung Association supporting Phillip Morris!!!

      So ya, I disagree, I’d say she took the steps to stop a political game and watched as her group folded for political promises and butt kissing.

      See MADD and Candy Lightner.:
      ‘She has since stated that MADD “has become far more neo-prohibitionist than I had ever wanted or envisioned … I didn’t start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving”‘

      Komen wasnt started to support ‘glanned misparenthood’s’ slaughter of children for the “health of the mother” it was for solving/helping breast cancer sufferers. I applaud her decision but personally, I think people need to start being the “mole” in these groups and start collecting and preparing to whistle-blow when they start to contradict what they claim.

      I wouldn’t want to be part of a group like this either but if it meant to let people know what goes on being closed doors…

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    • Steelhead
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:40am

      gonzo- wake up , the Komen money was for the health of women.I just love it when men become the custodians of women’s bodies. (they screw things up)

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    • The Jewish Avenger
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:50am

      “I just love it when men become the custodians of women’s bodies”

      Are you gloating over the cost of women’s lives?

      RACIST!

      (LOL)

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    • booger71
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:57am

      Komen money was for the health of women.
      ============
      Being pregnant is not disease or even unhealthy.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:43pm

      Steelhead, I‘m not the custodian of anyone’s body but my own. However, we are all custodians of this world and I don’t want my world butchering the unborn.

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    • Laughing Woman
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:50pm

      @The Jewish Avenger

      The breast cancer abortion link is a lie. Please no Dr Brink facts, he is a prolifer profiteer.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:06am

    Kudos to Karen Handel.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:10am

      Komen should have stuck to their decision to part ways with Planned Parenthood pending congressional investigation. But they caved to leftist political pressure and now they’re floundering. It’s only a matter of time before Planned Parenthood is defunded of federal funds, Komen should have got off the Titanic when it had the chance.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:16am

      So the feed a pro-life sacrifical lamb to the liberal pro-abortion hate machine. People that are tons of other cancer groups that don’t get 1/10 of the donations of the Susan G Komen foundation. Maybe it’s time to focus on groups that defend all life and will not condone murder unborn children.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:19am

      I agree AvengerK and admire Handel for refusing to be apart of it. Komen thnks they have dodged a bullet but, they have actually shot themselves in the foot.

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    • Locked
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:54am

      @Avengerk

      I felt the same at first… until I found out that they only stopped funding PP, not other organizations under investigation (like Penn State). Unfortunately, I had to eat my own words and agree this was purely political.

      It’s a shame either way. Komen helps in the fight against cancer, and both the decision to withdraw funding, and then rescinding it, has tarnished their reputation. Should have kept the politics out and focused on the goal: beating a terrible disease.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:56pm

      Come on locked, Penn State is a fine university, a few bad apples don’t change that. The entire university doesn’t condone molestation yet all of P.P. loves to kill babies.

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    • Locked
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:34pm

      @Gonzo

      And many PP clinics don’t provide abortions. Again, I was defending Komen‘s original choice because it wasn’t only targeting a single organization… until I found out it was. Then (as now) I‘m disgusted by Komen’s leadership, which is making decisions based on politics, not fighting cancer.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:46pm

      Locked, not all Nazis killed Jews either but, if you went along with it, you were just as guilty.

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    • Locked
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:47pm

      I’m scratching my head at that, thinking “But, didn‘t Gonzo just say that Penn State has some ’bad apples?‘ Does that mean he’s defending paedophilia?”

      As I’ve said before, I’m one of those folks who realizes that different funds go to different programs; Komen’s funding to PP goes to its cancer services. I’ll still support Komen either way; the focus should be on cancer, not politics. I don’t support abortions, and that‘s why I don’t donate directly to PP (because then I have no say on where my funding goes). Your mileage may vary, depending on how political you are and how much you’ve had a brush with cancer in your life.

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    • KAdams
      Posted on February 8, 2012 at 12:01am

      Sure Gonzo. A fine university… one in which the students riot at the firing of a favorite coach, but do NOTHING (until their selfish way is pointed out) about the abuse of many young boys in said ‘fine’ university… yeah. Sure it is.

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    • KAdams
      Posted on February 8, 2012 at 12:05am

      @Locked

      Check out oral contraceptive use and increased risk of breast cancer. So again, why should Komen fund PP? Might as well have the American Lung cancer society fund Philip Morris (Jewish Avenger stole that from me, by the way.)

      Thank you.

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  • TSUNAMI-22
    Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:04am

    Did you ever notice that women who want the right to an abortion are the same women you wouldn’t want to have sex with in the first place?

    - Paraphrased from George Carlin – R.I.P.

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    • ShyMan
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 1:37pm

      You think that’s funny?

      George Carlin was a vile pervert.

      I bet he’s not laughing now.

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    • academica2020
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:24pm

      WOW! That’s funny! Don’t let your blatant disregard for opposing opinions get in the way of what you really think. You aren’t any better than the folks you are criticizing. Arrogance is a trait you wear proudly. Must feel really good after posting those comments, eh?
      I’ve got news for you, Femi-Nazis ain’t all that attractive either.

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    • academica2020
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 2:32pm

      There has been a propensity to post links to clips of Carlin and quotes by him. Amazing how a counter-culture high school drop out is held in such high regard. I always considered him an entertainer, that’s all. Now he’s quoted a lot. I have always thought that folks on the left were proud of their perceived intellectual superiority and yet, they quote George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, and Roseann Barr. Bill Cosby is a comedic icon, why not quote him? Oh, sorry, that’s right, he doesn’t support stupidity.

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    • Laughing Woman
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:10pm

      LOL, I did not bring up George Carlin but the truth does hurt. People with eyes can see that prolifers care only about conception until birth, after that they become moochers that must suffer due to the sins of their parents. Truly perverse. Maybe you guys are really satanists.

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    • academica2020
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:22pm

      LAUGHING:
      You quoted Carlin…
      Satanist? Are you on meds? Where the heck did that come from?
      Reread what I wrote…
      I am not a “Pro-Lifer“ or ”:Pro-Choice” I have personal opinions that aren’t driven by anyone other than me. I don’t like hatchet jobs, I don‘t like the politics of personal destruction and I don’t like bullies. PP has become a bully, with A LOT of political clout.
      You are clearly a supporter of PP and view anyone who disagrees with you as uninformed, some type of religious zealot. Wrong on both accounts, but you played your hand. I still stand by my Femi-Nazi comment though. I am not apologizing for that because the tactics used by them, and many other groups, are right out of the Alinsky playbook.

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    • academica2020
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:34pm

      And honestly, these are ALL personal opinions here. So, I can say you are wrong and you can say I am wrong. The dynamic changes when either you or I claim that we are right 100% of the time, and belittle anyone who disagrees with us because we are certain of that.

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    • bigspike
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:45pm

      the biggest myth in politics (aside from the whole ‘0baMao is competent’ thing) is the ‘pro-lifers don‘t care about babies once they’re born’ chestnut; it’s a fraud and a hoax and an out-and-out LIE that they repeat over and over without thinking and they have absolutely NOTHING factual to back up the charge; in point of fact, if you choose to ‘compare/measure compassion’, it‘s the ’Tolerant Left’ that comes up short and is found lacking-conservatives give FAR more, in terms of their time, energy, annd resources, than Liberals…and it‘s conservatibes that tell people ’you CAN do it if you try’, while liberals are busry telling ‘certain groups’ that ‘you’re inferior and helpless and can never succeed without the government to prop you up for life’

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    • Laughing Woman
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:51pm

      Fem- nazi, how 90′s of you. Do you follow that college dropout, drug addict, draft dodger, thrice married big mouth with a boil on his butt loser?

      As for Alisnky ,who apparently has replaced Noam Chomsky as the “it” commie socialist, he was pro-life. He spent his life making the lives of the poor and minorities better, like Jesus.

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    • academica2020
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:03pm

      BIGSPIKE
      Agree, and what is most laughable about that argument is that they think that most women who have abortions are poor, ignorant, and incapable of raising a child or don’t know enough to put it up for adoption. So the best option is to abort it. If that isn’t a Margaret Sanger eugenics justification for abortion, I don’t know what is… They support the right to choose because they assume most women who engage in unprotected sex are stupid or, that is that argument I have heard most often. This conversation is about consensual sex, not rape or incest, which, if the health of the mother and baby are hanging in the balance is a last resort reason for doing the procedure. This is a horribly complicated topic and, no matter what any of us say, it seems to trivialize it.

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    • academica2020
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:06pm

      Alinsky tactics, but nice deflection on your part.

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    • academica2020
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:12pm

      And, by your comment, you support what Alinsky and Chomsky advocated, which is fine, your right.
      Margaret Sanger did tremendous work for the poor and disadvantaged.
      She also promoted eugenics.

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    • academica2020
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:24pm

      It would be nice if folks who are commenting here and are far left, just say so. You play your hands pretty quickly, but I think you operate under the assumption that most folks who are center-right are stupid. Keep doing so, because it just shows how arrogant and superior you think you are.
      As far as the Rush comment goes. Never listened to him, I just agree with the Femi-Nazi term and, since I grew up with a mom, now in here 80s, who is one, I think I know from what I speak.

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    • Laughing Woman
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 7:41pm

      @Bigspike

      Can’t argue with you on the fact that conservatives give more time and money to charity. But no one is out there to make sure a mother has the resources to take care of a child, good works or not. The majority of women that get abortion have a child and they feel they cannot take care of another one. A sad fact.

      This Republican primary has made the poor the whipping boy for an economy destroyed by the banking and corporate elites. It has been disgraceful.

      During a recession, of course, there will be more Americans needing food stamps. Republicans say it like it is a shameful thing. . 69% of food stamps go to children. elderly and disabled. Who would want this group to go hungry. And Santorum saying poor people are fat implying that they eat plenty when every rational thinker realizes starchy fat foods are all the poor can afford. Fruit are off the menu.

      In a time when everything is increasing in price to cut housing, childcare etc for the poor seems like not caring too much.

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    • Laughing Woman
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 7:51pm

      academica2020

      “what is most laughable about that argument is that they think that most women who have abortions are poor, ignorant, and incapable of raising a child or don’t know enough to put it up for adoption”

      Who implied such things? Are you sure you are not projecting? Most women who abort already have a child. I am sure they know how to care and raise a child they just do not feel capable to financially supporting another child.

      As for women (and men) that have unprotected sex being stupid -who thinks that? We are sexual beings. Sex happens. I Q has nothing to do with it. Usually it is religious hang-ups that keeps a person form using contraception.

      You mom is a femi-nazi, lucky you!

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    • The Jewish Avenger
      Posted on February 7, 2012 at 9:21pm

      @Laughing Woman (Why am I even entertaining this troll?)

      “…they just do not feel capable to financially supporting another child. ”

      Isnt that awesome? I don’t FEEL like being responsible for my actions oh boo hoo,
      Gee what other avenues do we get from that?

      I feel sad, my husband/wife is sick and I have to take care of him/her oh boo hoo, I want a divorce.
      I feel that my kids dont listen to me oh boo hoo give them Ritalin
      I feel that I dont want to work boo hoo, pay for my bills
      I feel that I dont feel like working boo hoo, give me unemployment for 2 years.
      I feel that I dont like being straight boo hoo punish the straight
      l feel im not the sex I want to be boo hoo cut it out and make me another sex
      My girlfriend/daughter/wife is pregnant and I feel that I don’t want to be responsible boo hoo kill it
      I feel the religions remind me that I’m not being a good person boo hoo remove them from public.
      I feel the laws are only for working people boo hoo make them more for me…
      I cant afford dental/eye/health care I feel someone else should help boo hoo pay for it
      I feel like I should be popular boo hoo call us the 99%
      I feel like I’m hungry boo hoo make me a bolonaise pasta dish
      I feel the bums shouldnt eat with us boo hoo send them away.
      and on and on and on and on and on.

      No responsibiliy whatsoever but ya… lets PAY for their abortions? Dont think so.

      Did I miss a few hundred more?

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    • Laughing Woman
      Posted on February 8, 2012 at 8:59am

      @ Jewish Avenger

      Sorry about your troubles which are projected throughout your post but thanks for your post, which clearly shows what I was talking about. Hunger, heat, basic health care would be bitterly denied to poor women after they are forced to keep the embryo.

      You are profetus not life.

      Abortion is a reproductive right. More prevention and health care brings less abortions and needless death. So lets move forward into the 21st century.

      Times are a changing, enjoy your going out of business baby boomer old fart sale.

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    • Laughing Woman
      Posted on February 8, 2012 at 9:06am

      Kadams “The Republican Primary did no such thing”

      TO the above statement see The Jewish Avenger post.

      NO one wants all to be equal that is spin from right propaganda. People are questioning the wealth gap that has been created over the last 30 years. Don’t worry Obama has the bankers and corporations backs. All your anger is over a fictional character that does not exist.

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