[FreeReign]

As will her Fulton County Commission votes to fund Planned Parenthood.

Handel gives her side of the story.

" My opponents have recently recycled old attacks against me concerning Fulton County’s funding of some programs through Planned Parenthood. They are doing so without providing any context and continue to omit several key and important facts. First, let me be clear, since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood. During my time as Chairman of Fulton County, there were federal and state pass-through grants that were awarded to Planned Parenthood for breast and cervical cancer screening, as well as a “Healthy Babies Initiative.” The grant was authorized, regulated, administered and distributed through the State of Georgia. Because of the criteria, regulations and parameters of the grant, Planned Parenthood was the only eligible vendor approved to meet the state criteria. Additionally, none of the services in any way involved abortions or abortion-related services. In fact, state and federal law prohibits the use of taxpayer funds for abortions or abortion related services and I strongly support those laws. Since grants like these are from the state I’ll eliminate them as your next Governor."

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[Always A Marine]

I read Handel's excuse for funding Planned Parenthood. My two points:
1. This was not the only time she approved funds for Planned Parenthood.
2. The "designated funds" argument rings hollow, as any dollars given to Planned Parenthood free other funds to provide abortions.

I still have yet to hear Karen Handel explain why she long denied writing a dues check to Log Cabin Republicans -- until a copy of the check appeared. That is a real problem.

[johncocktoasten]

All I need to remember is wsb and other local news depicting her as the enemy when she chaired the Fulton county commission and was pushing reforms there.

All the other nominees were inside baseball backslappin’ good ole boys and most had some sort of ethics cloud. Go Karen and Go Sarah

[DrewsMum]

“In fact, state and federal law prohibits the use of taxpayer funds for abortions or abortion related services and I strongly support those laws”

Then she obviously doesn’t know about Obama’s executive order to fund international abortions.... that’s one issue she’s wrong on....