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November 10, 2012

The Politicization of Women’s Issues: Tug of War with Gender at the Center

Hope Viner Samborn

“Politicizing women’s health makes me sick. Literally,” California lawyer Cathy Gellis tweeted earlier this year. “Because I’m a woman, and it undermines my health care.”

Gellis tweeted and blogged in February on her blog Statements of Interest: Looking at Life Through a Lawyer’s Lens at www.cathygellis.com about her disgust over the decision in January of Susan G. Komen for the Cure to stop funding Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.’s breast cancer screening programs. Only days later, the Komen organization, based in New York, reversed its decision.

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