"Supporters are rallying around Planned Parenthood after renowned breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure decided to cut breast screening grants to the reproductive health organization," The Associated Press reports. "Besides $400,000 in smaller donations from 6,000 people, Planned Parenthood is receiving $250,000 from a family foundation in Dallas and a $250,000 pledge announced Thursday by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg."

The organization has long been at the center of America's abortion debate. "What's next for Planned Parenthood?" Jill Lepore asked in The New Yorker. "Michele Bachmann, in one speech, accused the organization of 'committing crimes and enabling young minor girls and covering up issues I don’t even want to talk about it because it’s so disgusting' and, in another, described clinics in swank suburban malls where wealthy women who are 'picking up Starbucks' can be found 'stopping off for an abortion.' Was it shabby and underhanded or upmarket and unabashed? 'We would wake up and, every day, it would be about something else,' Richards said. 'Some days it was about abortion. Some days it was about race. Some days it was about me. Some days it was about kids,'" she wrote. "The fury over Planned Parenthood is two political passions—opposition to abortion and opposition to government programs for the poor—acting as one. So far, it has nearly led to the shutdown of the federal government, required Republican Presidential nominees to swear their fealty to the pro-life lobby, tied up legislatures and courts in more than half a dozen states, launched a congressional investigation, and helped cripple the Democratic Party. What’s next?"

Pamela Colloff visited a Planned Parenthood in Bryant, Texas, and chronicled the sorts of stories that the staff there regularly encountered. George Mckenna mentioned Planned Parenthood in the course of offering a Lincolnian way of looking at the abortion debate. "Principled yet pragmatic, Lincoln's stand on slavery offers a basis for a new politics of civility that is at once anti-abortion and pro-choice," he writes.

So did Emily Bazelon in her piece on piece on the new abortion providers. "Over the last decade, abortion-rights advocates have quietly worked to reverse the marginalization encouraged by activists like Randall Terry. Abortion-rights proponents are fighting back on precisely the same turf that Terry demarcated: the place of abortion within mainstream medicine," she wrote. "This abortion-rights campaign, led by physicians themselves, is trying to recast doctors, changing them from a weak link of abortion to a strong one. Its leaders have built residency programs and fellowships at university hospitals, with the hope that, eventually, more and more doctors will use their training to bring abortion into their practices. The bold idea at the heart of this effort is to integrate abortion so that it’s a seamless part of health care for women — embraced rather than shunned."