Karen Handel, Susan G. Komen Executive, Quits Over Planned Parenthood Dispute

In my opinion, she should have quit last week. When you are in a leadership position in a company, you have to work very hard to get your biases at bay. There are times that my personal beliefs may be in direct conflict with the rules, regulations and practices of a company. I have to know how to navigate through those waters in such a skillful manner that I am not accused of being bias or discriminatory. She failed to do that.

Karen Handel, vice president for public affairs at Susan G. Komen for the Cure, resigned on Tuesday following public outcry over the announcement Komen would pull funding from Planned Parenthood. After Komen reversed its decision, The Huffington Post reported that Handel drove the decision to defund Planned Parenthood over abortion politics and crafted the strategy to clean up the public relations mess than ensued.

Although she acknowledges her involvement in the Planned Parenthood decision in her resignation letter, she also decries what she calls "gross mischaracterizations" of the situation and maintains that the decision was not about politics:

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