“Here in Hawaii, we don’t receive funds from the Komen Foundation affiliate,” said Planned Parenthood Hawaii Public Affairs Director Katie Polidoro in a phone interview with DC808. “We’re really disappointed to see this decision. The Komen Foundation has been a partner of ours for a long time — both nationally and here in Hawaii. The concerns about bowing to political pressure would be a really upsetting thing to contemplate.”
Planned Parenthood Hawaii hasn’t received or applied for funding assistance from the foundation since 2005, according to Polidoro. She said her organization still sees Komen as a peer, and she worries that both groups stand to suffer in the wake of Komen’s decision.
“Our missions are still pretty much the same,” she said. “We want to make sure that all women — especially low-income, uninsured and underinsured women — have access to breast exams.”
Planned Parenthood Hawaii offered 2,600 breast exams to low-income women last year, Polidoro said. Here’s a breakdown of the kinds of services that Planned Parenthood provides nationwide:

Graphic from Planned Parenthood via The Washington Post
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