Communications Major

In her resignation letter, Karen Handel, senior vice president for public policy at Susan G. Komen Foundation, acknowledged that she was closely involved in the decision to stop funding breast health services at Planned Parenthood. That decision, made public last week, provoked an immediate public backlash against Komen. Thousands of people protested the move on Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites. Komen reversed the decision Friday, apologizing to the public and announcing that Planned Parenthood would be eligible for future grants

Online backlash was immediate when officials from the breast-cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure confirmed that they would no longer fund breast-cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood.