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After it appeared that the Komen Foundation backed down from the decision to withdraw grants for Planned Parenthood, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Barbara Boxer were quick to praise the decision.
"It just goes to show you when women speak out, women win." House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said to reporters earlier today, "Women's health had a big victory this morning."
"Women's health triumphed over right-wing politics," Barbara Boxer exclaimed today, joining MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on the phone this afternoon to celebrate the victory for Planned Parenthood
Yesterday, Boxer accused the organization of "McCarthy like" tactics, and suggested to Mitchell today that the explanation given by spokesman Nancy Brinker was "gobbledy - gook."
"There's almost hand to hand combat over the issue of birth control going on and I thought that was resolved in the '60s," Boxer added, "We have to make sure that the fact that women have access to birth control stands."
Boxer also panned the "terrible" bill proposed by Marco Rubio, that would repeal President Obama's contraception mandate.
