This editorial just posted in Dallas Morning News Re: Komen [View all]

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Floyd: Komen for the Cure’s new fashion statement: the pink burka

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/columnists/jacquielynn-floyd/20120201-floyd-komen-for-the-cures-new-fashion-statement-the-pink-burka.ece

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It’s being hinted that the split with Planned Parenthood is a deliberate political right turn by the Komen organization.

Supporters of this conspiracy theory point to the addition of a new senior vice president for public policy: Karen Handel, who ran a 2010 Georgia gubernatorial campaign as an anti-abortion candidate.

Maybe so. But it’s equally possible that, like many others who have caved before them, the Komen people are simply scared, wimping out before the onslaught of yodeling ideologues who want Government Off Our Backs -- except when it comes to women’s most private, intimate personal business.

They got bullied into shrinking away from Planned Parenthood by an organized lobbying effort that wants to make the oldest non-profit reproductive health organization in our nation too radioactive to touch.