Komen VP Resigns

Karen Handel, an executive at the Susan G. Komen Foundation, resigned on Tuesday. Handel, a former Republican candidate for governor of Georgia, had been suspected as the root of the breast-cancer charity’s controversial decision last week to pull funding from Planned Parenthood—and attracted attention after she retweeted a comment that it was “just like a pro-abortion group to turn a cancer orgs decision into a political bomb to throw. Cry me a freaking river.” In her resignation letter, Handel said she “fully acknowledged” her role in the decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood, saying that the decision had been part of a “thoughtful and thoroughly reviewed decision” and that cutting the funding to Planned Parenthood would “have indeed enabled Komen to deliver even greater community impact.”