Daily News | PA continues to fund antiabortion organization in new budget
it passed last month to support the antiabortion movement, some of it with money diverted from cash assistance for people in poverty.
While Pennsylvania’s funding of Real Alternatives was always contentious, in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, the subject is kicking up a firestorm among those who support abortion rights, as well as among advocates for people in poverty. Pennsylvania is one of only nine states that routes federal cash assistance from mostly women and children in dire poverty — disproportionately Black and people of color — to an antiabortion entity.
Real Alternatives is the sole contractor receiving money for running the alternative-to-abortion services program. It’s headquartered in the state capital in a nondescript office plaza, near a thrift shop. In Pennsylvania, Real Alternatives says it has served 50,000 women using TANF dollars alone and 331,000 women in total during 1.7 million service visits since it opened.
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