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ASPEN — Staff of the Aspen affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure were responding Friday to dozens of emails and phone calls sent earlier in the week when it appeared that Komen would cut off its funding to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings.

“We lost support in the last few days. People said they were boycotting the race or the ride,” said Logan Hood, executive director of the Komen Aspen affiliate.

What the critics didn't realize is that the Komen Aspen affiliate had defied the national Komen policy to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood, and insisted on continuing to provide financial support for the Planned Parenthood clinic in Glenwood Springs....

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