The Associated Press reports that Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation’s leading breast-cancer charity, will cut off its funding to Planned Parenthood affiliates, where the foundation has traditionally paid for preventive screening services.

According to the AP, the move will mean “a cutoff of hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants, mainly for breast exams.”Planned Parenthood confirms that Komen is the first, and only, organization to cut off funding since the Congress began debating the issue in earnest last winter.In some ways, the Komen decision isn’t particularly surprising. The group has been under pressure from anti-abortion rights groups not to fund Planned Parenthood. It also hired a vice president last year who had previously advocated for the group’s defunding in her run for Georgia governor. With a congressional investigation underway, Komen pulled its support.

The Komen Foundation has been skating on thin ice with me for some time. Their pinkwashing efforts have turned a diagnosis of breast cancer into a retail opportunity for corporations all around the country. As a breast cancer survivor, I am aware that fighting disease takes big money, and I understand that a certain amount of commercialization may reap big rewards. I have continued to support my local race because I like the fact that most of the money raised stays in my community and goes to local organizations like Planned Parenthood, who deliver care to the women who need it most and are least likely to have insurance. But this is the end.

I am enraged that the anti-choice lobby has so terrified health care organizations that a misogynist bully like Congressman Cliff Stearns can undermine a decades-long relationship simply by mentioning the A word. Anti-abortion politicians simply will not accept that not every single thing in this world has to do with abortion. To them, women’s health and abortion are one and the same, and to provide funds and/or support to any group that advocates for choice is the same as killing a fetus.

Just as one person can blackmail entire organizations, one person can bring down a villain like Stearns. Remember Joseph Welch, who ended McCarthyism with one simple question? How long will we have to watch as the Susan G. Komen Foundation and others who call themselves our allies betray the cause of women’s health care?

I encourage each of you to contact the national Komen Foundation here Their homepage will give you contact information for your local affiliate. Komen’s Facebook page is here. And this is a perfect opportunity to make an extra donation to your local Planned Parenthood. If you donate, please let them know what prompted your gift.

The jury’s decision also underscores the difficulty of obtaining favorable results for women who say they were sexually assaulted, and who often are subjected to scrutiny and skepticism that keep many of them from speaking out. In this case, defense lawyers pounced on the credibility of the woman because she was very drunk on the night in question and did not remember many details.

Moreno and Mata were convicted only of official misconduct—”official misconduct” being perhaps the greatest understatement of all time. But while the judge could have sentenced Moreno to no jail time—as it was technically his first offense—he instead threw the book at him. Moreno got a year in prison—he’s sure to be popular at Rikers!—and an unprecedented verbal asswhupping. Because apparently Justice Gregory Carro of the State Supreme Court, who presided over the trial, is no fool, and probably agrees with prevailing public opinion that Kenneth Moreno is a lying sack of shit rapist. He practically came out and said so:

“During your testimony,” Justice Carro said, “you told a story that was incredible. Your testimony was classic for admitting what you couldn’t deny, denying what you couldn’t admit and classic tailoring of your testimony to the witnesses who testified before you.”

When law enforcement officers commit crimes, it tears at the fabric of society, Justice Carro said.

“You, sir, ripped a gaping hole in that fabric in committing your crimes.”

Justice Carro alternated emotions between anger and sarcasm and he recounted Mr. Moreno’s testimony. At times, Justice Carro seemed like an angry father, appearing as though he was finished speaking, only to throw in more criticism off the top of his head.

Fuck yeah, Justice Carro! He couldn’t overturn the gross miscarriage of justice that happened here, but I’ll take any small victory I can get these days. Having the judge openly condemn Moreno in public and on the record is pretty sweet. It seems like public humiliation and condemnation may be the best we can hope for sometimes. Moreno’s victim reportedly wept in the courtroom as the judge spoke, and I hope she got some small measure of satisfaction from hearing that the judge, at least, did not believe her rapist’s lies.

Update: A few hours later, Moreno was released on $125,000 bail by Appeals Court Judge Nelson Roman so he can appeal his conviction on official misconduct charges. Good luck with your appeal, asswipe. You’ll lose, and I hope the legal costs break you financially.

Dear Republican Party: My pussy says FUCK YOU.

Jesus H. Christ with a speculum, y’all. Two more attacks in the Republican war on women’s health have really got my blood boiling. First, to Oklahoma, where Tulsa World writes:

Rep. Jason Murphey, R-Guthrie, moved to amend a senior nutrition bill so that it prohibits independent contractors from distributing federal funds for a program that feeds mothers, babies and small children.

Why would Murphey do such a thing? Because Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma, based in Tulsa, is among the nine independent contractors that administer the federal Women, Infants and Children feeding program. Debate over the amendment made it clear Planned Parenthood was the target, observers say. Planned Parenthood has become a favorite target of the right wing lately over the abortion issue, even though Planned Parenthood in Tulsa doesn’t perform abortions.

You know how feminists always say the antis wants to force women to have babies but won’t do a damn thing to help feed/care for them? Yeah. Except now they’re actively trying to deprive babies of food as part of the “pro-life” movement. It’s downright sadistic.

A side-eye also goes to Indiana, which is poised to cut all funding to Planned Parenthood. Their House of Representatives approved a bill yesterday to cut off the $3 million the state distributes for family health programs. Governor Mitch Daniels, who has his eye on a possible Presidential bid, is likely to sign the bill just to bolster his woman-hating cred with the ultra-right base of the GOP. A similar defunding measure is also in the works in North Carolina. Now, in Oklahoma and Indiana, and everywhere else in the US, these GOP politicians’ wives and daughters will still be able to get their birth control and pap smears, and yes, even their abortions if it comes to it. But when it comes to women who rely on Planned Parenthood for health care—and even for feeding their families—Republicans are willing to shout “abortion” any time a doctor gets near their vaginas, just to have an excuse to score some points with their radical base.