In recent months, Planned Parenthood has struggled with being pigeonholed by conservatives as nothing more than an abortion clinic. But now, the organization has taken a serious leap to prove once again that women can and already do rely on them for a variety of other, totally uncontroversial services, like forthcoming expanded breast health care.

Remember back when Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced that they'd be pulling their grants from Planned Parenthood, and everyone flipped out? Then, Planned Parenthood received a surge of donations and promised the dough would go toward preventative breast cancer services and education. Now, they're actually putting the money where their mouth is by using $3 million in donations toward a new breast health initiative!

Here's what the initiative means for women ...

President Obama is lookin' out for us ladies! Beginning today, August 1, given the government's new health care reforms, private insurance companies must start providing contraception for free! In other words, without any kind of co-pay. And that's not all. The rule applies to a bevy of other preventative women's health services, including well-woman visits, mammograms, gestational diabetes screening, HPV DNA testing for women 30+, STI screening (including HIV), breastfeeding support/supplies/counseling, and domestic violence counseling. Yippee!

But before running over to your local drugstore to demand the pharmacist fork over your monthly pill pack, check out this easy breakdown of how the new law may affect you, depending on your insurance sitch ...

Last week I went to the White House to attend a town hall on the health care law. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called it the most important women's health care law in 50 years and highlighted the positive ways it will affect coverage for women.

If it isn't overturned by the Supreme Court, the Affordable Care Act will mean significant changes in coverage not only for women but specifically for moms. With so much information out there about the ways health insurance will be different, here's what moms need to know about how the new law might have an impact on them:

So imagine you’re going for a breast cancer screening exam. A nerve-wracking time for any woman. You’ve got a stranger manhandling your boobies. You could find out some bad news. Probably the last thing you want is a porn star ogling the proceedings. But Charlie Sheen’s ex-porn star girlfriend, Bree Olson, is using her big (fake) boobs to draw attention to a free breast cancer screening bus, “Save Our Boobs,” sponsored by a porn site, PornHub.

I say good for her!

Pepsi Co. may not make a product that's part of a healthy lifestyle, but that doesn't mean they're okay with the people who work for them being unhealthy. Since February, the company has been charging workers in its bottling division who are smokers a $50 monthly fee on top of what they already pay for their company health insurance. The company began enforcing the penalty without really giving workers much warning, never telling the Teamsters union that covers many employees that they were "going to a different plan for employees."

While the way they went about putting the levy on their workers is certainly shady, I'm all for "sin fees" on smokers like this one. It's a smoker's decision to keep on smoking -- to not even try to quit. And hey, if they'd even make an attempt to quit, they wouldn't have to pay the penalty!