 On September 11, 2012, Handel published a book, "Planned Bullyhood", about her tenure as vice president of public policy at Susan G. Komen for the Cure.In the book, Handel defended Komen's short-lived decision to end grants to Planned Parenthood.She refers to Planned Parenthood as "a blatantly partisan" group of "bullies" that began a war with Komen over $700,000, an amount of money "inconsequential" to its $1 billion budget.