I thought Gov. Josh Shapiro was for women’s choice and reproductive health? His decision to end the contract with Real Alternatives will harm tens of thousands of women and children who depend on the help they receive. A new study published in the journal Cureus found that two-thirds of women seeking abortions would have chosen life if they had better support.
Real Alternatives was established 27 years ago by former Democratic Gov. Bob Casey Sr. and has helped close to 350,000 women with 1.9 million office visits without a complaint. Real Alternatives currently receives about one-tenth the funding that Planned Parenthood receives, and yet Planned Parenthood does not provide any prenatal care and does not provide any of the services Real Alternatives does through the first 12 months of a baby’s life. Shapiro has hinted that the money already in the budget for Real Alternatives in 2024 may be redirected to Planned Parenthood, which I think more accurately should be called “Preventing Parenthood Inc.”
Our governor is already preventing needy children from accessing a better education with his budget veto of Lifeline Scholarships. Now he wants to deny children a chance at life. In bowing to the agenda of the socialist wing of his Democratic Party, he is turning his back on the real needs of the poorest and most vulnerable citizens of Pennsylvania, and it would be fair to label him as the “anti-choice” governor.
Jim Ludwig
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