Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says his administration will cut ties with an organization that funds “crisis pregnancy centers” when its contract expires at the end of the year. Via the Philadelphia Inquirer:

Real Alternatives, a Harrisburg nonprofit, for decades has received millions in funding from the state legislature earmarked for programs that offer alternatives to abortion. State lawmakers have also sent Real Alternatives about $1 million per year in federal funding from the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, which is intended to provide cash assistance to women and children in poverty.

In Pennsylvania, Real Alternatives funds 27 facilities that dissuade clients from obtaining abortions and instead offer pregnancy and parenting support. Advocates for reproductive rights have for years criticized these centers, saying they distribute misleading information to vulnerable patients seeking help with an unplanned pregnancy.

“For decades, taxpayer dollars have gone to fund Real Alternatives. My administration will not continue that pattern – we will ensure women in this commonwealth receive the reproductive health care they deserve,” Shapiro said in the statement.

Instead, the state Department of Human Services will ask for applications from women’s health providers across the state to fund women’s health programs.

In an email, Real Alternatives representatives said they were “shocked” Shapiro had decided not to renew its contract. The organization has served about 350,000 women over the last 27 years, they said, offering services up to a year after a woman gives birth.

“We believe the governor has been terribly misinformed about the need for the program and its success,” they said.

I'm guessing he knows about this, from 2017:

HARRISBURG (Sept. 19, 2017) – Auditor General Eugene DePasquale today said his latest performance audit helped stop a decades-old practice where abortion alternative provider Real Alternatives used state funds to support activities outside of Pennsylvania.

“It is outrageous that, by its own admission in court, Real Alternatives used hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania taxpayer dollars to fund its activities in other states,” DePasquale said. “It is just as outrageous that the state grant agreement was so weak that it allowed this practice to go on for decades siphoning funds intended to benefit Pennsylvania women experiencing crisis pregnancies.

We all know what they did with the money they siphoned out of the public till. They tried to scare women out of having abortions:

Real Alternatives has fed itself well at the Keystone State’s taxpayer trough. The firm, which funds 27 crisis pregnancy centers throughout the state, has received more than $134 million total in taxpayer funding since it became the sole contractor for the Department of Human Services’ Alternatives to Abortion Services program in the 1990s. Just last year, Real Alternatives received $6.2 million from the 2022–2023 state budget and an additional $1 million from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, which is intended for pregnant people and children living in poverty. The Harrisburg-based organization was also set to receive an additional $2 million from the state’s proposed budget before Shapiro announced his decision to end their contract.

Ending this became a possibilty because there is now a razor-thin Democratic majority in the state house. Including these "services" in the budget was only because Republicans would hold up the budget until they got it.