It's a great day for low-income women who depend on PP for breast cancer screenings.

It's still a bad day for Komen. Lots of us will be taking our contributions elsewhere.

Huff Po makes the point that while Komen has not disqualified Planned Parenthood from future grants, they still may deny future grants. So be watchful. They've only removed the "policy" reason for denying grant funds.

I've learned too much about Komen to ever feel good about them again. Lobbying against research that would look at the environmental causes of breast cancer is actually to me a worse crime against women than dissing PP.

"We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not."

Bullshit. Apologies lose a lot of credibility when served up only after multiple unsuccessful rationalizations and then riddled with apparent lies.

Now the voices that have been concerned about SGK's high compensation packages and low concern for who they partner with will get some traction. I don't think they can withstand the heavy scrutiny any better than Gloria Ray and KTSC can.

The Planned Parenthood fracas is nothing compared to the real agenda of Komen. It's a damned shame.

Meager attempt to un-shit the bed.

Frankly, I don't think "public backlash" really ever made it into their calculus.

Nothing like a high-profile PR disaster to ruin a money-vacuuming concern non-profit fundraising apparatus.

I never much cared fir Komen. And what I've learned the last few days has plain and simple pissed me off. They will never get one pretty pink cent from me.

According to BBB, you can see the breakdown of programs' cost based on Komen's 2008 tax filing here. Monies spent on treatment for the poor and uninsured is the least amount of monies spent, the second least amount spent is for screening.

Do also read Welcome to Cancerland. Barbara Ehrenreich's journey, and look into the politics of breast cancer.

"Bad" genes of the inherited variety are thought to account for fewer than 10 percent of breast cancers, and only 30 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer have any known risk factor (such as delaying childbearing or the late onset of menopause) at all. Bad lifestyle choices like a fatty diet have, after brief popularity with the medical profession, been largely ruled out. Hence suspicion should focus on environmental carcinogens, the feminists argue, such as plastics, pesticides (DDT and PCBs, for example, though banned in this country, are still used in many Third World sources of the produce we eat), and the industrial runoff in our ground water. No carcinogen has been linked definitely to human breast cancer yet, but many have been found to cause the disease in mice, and the inexorable increase of the disease in industrialized nations -- about one percent a year between the 1950s and the 1990s -- further hints at environmental factors, as does the fact that women migrants to industrialized countries quickly develop the same breast-cancer rates as those who are native born.

In the end, I'm glad there was this flap about Komen. A lot of folks are getting to see exactly what is inside this organization.