I guess if valuing the life of an unborn child classifies as “right-wing politics.”
Via Newsbusters:
News of the Komen Foundation’s backpedaling regarding its grants to Planned Parenthood affiliates prompted liberal journalist Andrea Mitchell to do a victory lap on her 1 p.m. Eastern Andrea Mitchell Reports program today. […]
“In looking at the wording from Komen today, do you think that this is a clear-cut reversal, or is it simply something to get past the immediate controversy,” Mitchell inquired.
Boxer replied that it was a “reversal” that made her “very happy” because “women’s health triumphed over right-wing politics.” The NARAL-endorsed California senator gushed that Mitchell’s hostile interview with Komen founder Nancy Brinker “helped bring this [reversal] about” and then laughably pontificated that “health care for our people should never be politicized from any side.” Mitchell, of course, failed to point out Boxer’s hypocrisy, seeing as she and 25 other liberal U.S. senators fundamentally made the issue a political flashpoint with their letter to Komen yesterday.
Boxer’s version of a “triumph” is strong-arming Komen into funding Planned Parenthood to perform a procedure they can’t do, they simply refer women to a facility that can do mammograms. Not exactly cost effective and in the end it hurts women because Komen’s money could have been used to pay for the procedure instead of funding a referral service.