Last week, in the midst of the Komen/Planned Parenthood controversy, AAUW nationally and the Kingston branch withdrew our support of the Komen Foundation. Locally, we sent a letter to the editor at the Freeman stating our position.

Minutes Late

No sooner did I hit the send button than Komen’s policy reversal hit twitter and the blog-o-sphere. Our letter wasn’t printed. Old news, I assumed.

That is, it wasn’t printed until TODAY!  The letter, today, is out of date, of course, but the principle still stands.And, we’ll be watching to see how this plays out over the long run.

Why Today?

I find it interesting that our letter is printed right below Kathleen Parker’s column today, Birth control redux supporting the Catholic Church in their fight over the Federal decision not to exempt their organizations that serve the public from including women’s preventive care in their employee healthcare insurance coverage. But, then, that’s another letter.

You can read our letter to the editor here.  And tell us what you think about either issue in the comments below.