Lemony Snicket to give $1 million to Planned Parenthood

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Daniel Handler, whose pen name is Lemony Snicket at the 2013 LA Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California campus on Saturday April 20, 2013, in Los Angeles.

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Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 | 6:31 p.m.

NEW YORK — The children's author known as Lemony Snicket says he's donating $1 million to Planned Parenthood.

Daniel Handler made the announcement this week on his Twitter feed, @DanielHandler. He notes the donation to the women's health care provider is on behalf of him and his wife, illustrator Lisa Brown. He says they've been very fortunate and "good fortune should be shared with noble causes."

House Republicans in Washington have been trying to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood. They cite its practice of supplying tissue from aborted fetuses for scientific research.

Planned Parenthood defends the practice as the legal donation of tissue to research firms. It says the not-for-profit tissue donation programs support lifesaving scientific research.

Handler's Lemony Snicket novels, "A Series of Unfortunate Events," have sold millions of copies.