This post has been updated to reflect a change in schedule for a federal judge's ruling on Plan B: The judge will rule in two weeks, not tomorrow.

Today's loser: The ladies.

One day after the "pro-woman" Susan G. Komen Foundation cut all its funding to Planned Parenthood, and one day before a federal judge will decide whether right-wing pharmacists can refuse to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception on religious grounds, pro-birth control activists are urging supporters to withhold or withdraw support from Komen and contribute to Planned Parenthood. Komen's contribution went toward breast cancer screening for low-income women.

In the first case, the Komen Foundation---a pinkwashing group that partners with major chemical companies like Dow Chemical and focuses on curing breast cancer, not finding causes and preventing it---announced yesterday that it was pulling all funding for Planned Parenthood, on the spurious grounds that a new foundation rule prohibits it from giving money to groups that are under federal investigation.

(An anti-choice congressman, Cliff Stearns, launched an investigation into Planned Parenthood last year to determine whether the group was illegally using federal funds to perform abortions---which make up just 3 percent of Planned Parenthood's services).

In the second, anti-choice pharmacists are arguing in federal court that they should be allowed to refuse to fill prescriptions for Plan B, an FDA-approved drug that prevents pregnancy within 72 hours of unprotected sex, on the grounds that the contraception, in some cases, prevents a fertilized egg from being implanted in a woman's uterus. The judge in that case will rule in two weeks.

The pharmacists, who consider a fertilized egg a human being, believe that Plan B causes abortions (to which, obviously, they're opposed). For perspective, between 10 and 25 percent of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, usually very early in pregnancy. Under the pharmacists' standard, these miscarriages are abortions. We're crossing our fingers for the best, but gritting our teeth for the worst.

Finally, the drug giant Pfizer announced today that it was recalling more than 1 million packets of birth control pills that may have been mislabeled---in other words, what you thought was birth control may have just been a placebo.

Grim times for sexually active women and those who love them.

Let your local Komen office know what you think of their decision to slash funding for Planned Parenthood here, and find your local Planned Parenthood  here.