The plot thickens as to why the Race for the Cure's founder, an organization named Susan G. Komen for the Cure, has pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars of funding for breast exams at Planned Parenthood clinics in response to criticism from Republican members of the US House and religious right anti-abortion activists.

Yesterday we learned that a top Komen official is also a GOP anti-abortion activist who promised less than two years ago to shut down funding to Planned Parenthood.

Today we learn from Kate Sheppard at Mother Jones that Komen's founder, Nancy Goodman Brinker, is a major Republican donor who served as an ambassador in the George W. Bush administration, one assumes as payback for the more than $175,000 she gave to Republican candidates and the RNC since 1990.