A Stink About Pink: Better Alternatives Than Giving to Right-Leaning Komen

Some good may come out of the Komen Foundation’s hard right turn on abortion this week. It was about time, anyway, for a fundamental re-examination of Komen by people committed to the cause of cancer research.

You’ll find a good summary of reasons to be worried about giving to Komen, even before this week’s right-to-life train wreck, in a piece published last October in the Sacramento Bee. The Bee story reported that Komen has been giving less and less of its ample largesse to research in recent years anyway, spending more of it on self-promotion and merchandising. Komen has a frankly terrible rate of support for research compared with the by medical sociologist gayle a. sulik published in oxford university press.>