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Outcry Grows Fiercer After Funding Cut by Cancer Group -- The New York Times

Jennifer Preston and Gardiner Harris cull the fallout and report on the uproar created by a recent decision by a pink ribbon-toting cancer foundation to halt aid to a prominent family planning organization, as American’s health care becomes more and more politicized. "The nation’s leading breast cancer advocacy organization confronted the growing furor [this week]…over its decision to largely end its...partnership with…Planned Parenthood, which provides family planning...services in...clinics across the country…The deluge of criticism Komen [the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation] faced on…the Internet…demonstrated...how social media can [quickly] change the national conversation...The furious debate is also a sign of the intense polarization of the nation’s politics in a campaign season…Komen’s founder and chief executive, Nancy G. Brinker...insisted that the organization’s decision had nothing to do with abortion or politics…[but a day earlier] John D. Raffaelli, a Komen board member and Washington lobbyist...told The New York Times…that Komen made the changes to its grant-making process specifically to end its relationship with Planned Parenthood…To Planned Parenthood, that decision amounted to a betrayal of the organizations’ shared goal of saving lives through breast screening programs…The Komen foundation posted a [Web] video…with Ms. Brinker defending its decision. But the video…did not appease the growing number of people online, mostly women, who decried what they view as the politicization of women’s health care."...

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Source: Harvard World Health News - Friday, 3 February


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