Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Planned Parenthood, ObamaCare: Komen Keeps Some Bad Company

Embattled breast cancer awareness group Komen for the Cure has
announced the selection of a new CEO, Judith A. Salerno.

Salerno (at left in photo) currently serves as executive director and chief operating officer of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a chief adviser to the Obama Administration regarding the implementation of Obamacare.

Under Salerno’s leadership, the IOM told the Obama Administration that insurance companies should be forced to pay for contraceptives, sterilizations and abortion-causing drugs for all women, without co-pays.  That recommendation became the controversial HHS contraceptive mandate, which requires employers to provide such insurance plans for their female employees or face heavy fines, regardless of their religious objections.

Salerno, 61, is replacing Komen founder Nancy Brinker (at right in above photo) who stepped down last August after a controversy involving abortion giant Planned Parenthood…

(Kirsten Andersen, LifeSiteNews story) (Photo from Fox News)