Why the right hates Planned Parenthood
The pressure on the Susan G. Komen Foundation is just part of a war to separate abortion rights and women's health
“I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood,” Karen Handel,
the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s senior vice president for public
policy, wrote
in 2010, during her failed gubernatorial bid in Georgia. It’s worth
asking again what that mission is and why the right hates it so much,
now that the foundation has withdrawn its funding for Planned Parenthood to provide breast cancer screenings to low-income women.
The
right’s hatred of Planned Parenthood requires some logical
inconsistencies, to put it mildly. It means constantly accusing the
nonprofit organization of greedy profiteering, even while fantasizing
over how stripping Planned Parenthood of federal funding for health
services might shut its doors.
No comments:
Post a Comment