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The full, up-close story of the battle between Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Planned Parenthood from the woman at the center of the explosive media firestorm of early 2012, Karen Handel, former SVP of Public Policy at Komen. In 2011, Susan G. Komen for the Cure was growing weary of the "pink" being tarnished by its health grants to Planned Parenthood (PPH), whose many controversies were fueling backlash against Komen. They wanted to remove themselves from the pro-life/abortion debate and made what they thought was a rational, reasonable decision: seek neutral ground in the culture war by severing ties with Planned Parenthood—and in turn, eliminate a major headache while opening a new, robust fund-raising channel. Karen Handel, the organization's Senior Vice President of Public Policy, was tasked with identifying options to disengage. In November, the Komen management and board decided to move forward. Komen believed that they and PPH had made a "gentle ladies" pact, agreeing to part ways amicably and acknowledging that a media firestorm was in no one's best interest. Yet, six weeks later, PPH unleashed a media campaign so viral and so seamlessly executed that it must have been i

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Author

Karen Handel

Publisher

Howard Books

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781451697940

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Health & Fitness, Political Science

Rating

3.4 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13