{"id":165113,"date":"2017-04-21T14:11:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T18:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=165113"},"modified":"2017-04-21T14:11:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T18:11:06","slug":"georgia-special-election-brings-former-komen-pp-feud-forefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/georgia-special-election-brings-former-komen-pp-feud-forefront\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia’s special election brings former Komen-Planned Parenthood feud to the forefront"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Karen Handel<\/p><\/div>\n

This week, Georgia held a special election to fill the Georgia district seat vacated by Tom Price, who Donald Trump chose as his Health and Human Services Secretary. Eighteen candidates ran, but none of them received a majority of the vote, meaning that Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel will be competing in a runoff in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ossoff is not a particularly well-known name in political circles, but he is a pro-abortion Democrat who supports Planned Parenthood. Pro-lifers, however, will undoubtedly recognize Handel’s name: she was not only Georgia’s very first<\/a> Republican Secretary of State;\u00a0she also previously served as the senior vice president of public policy for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and it was during her time there that Komen decided to phase out their grants to Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood and its\u00a0allies in the abortion lobby immediately mobilized against Komen; a bullying campaign convinced Komen to reverse its\u00a0decision, and Handel was out. But now that she is in the public eye again, pro-abortion advocates are eager to use the Komen controversy against her.<\/p>\n

At “Slate,” pro-abortion extremist Amanda Marcotte wrote an embarrassingly inaccurate screed (what else is new?) in which she claimed that Handel “made her name destroying the reputation of Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.”<\/a>\u00a0The problem is, Marcotte couldn’t even get the most basic facts of the situation right.<\/p>\n

“In January 2012, the Komen foundation, as it\u2019s typically called, quietly announced that it was terminating a $700,000 grant made to a number of Planned Parenthood clinics to fund mammograms and other breast cancer-related services,” she began. This is true: Komen had been providing grant money to Planned Parenthood to fund mammograms and breast cancer-related services, yes.<\/p>\n

The problem was, Planned Parenthood didn’t actually provide those services<\/em>. They didn’t perform mammograms and never had; they merely put in referrals to health care providers that did, and Komen felt that their money would be better spent cutting out the middle-man, so to speak.<\/p>\n