Background
Governor Shapiro, during Commonwealth Budget negotiations, agreed with the Republican Senate to retain the budget line item that funded the award-winning Pennsylvania Pregnancy and Parenting Support Services Program ever since the time it was started by Governor Robert Casey in 1995. He signed the FY 23-24 Commonwealth Budget that actually included a $2 million increase in the Program’s funding to $9 million. Governor Shapiro then refused to renew the Program’s contract thus ending the life-affirming Program that served over 354,000 women in 28 years. Governor Shapiro used the $9 million originally earmarked for the Program to create a brand-new program that funds pro-abortion non-profits. Real Alternatives detailed response can be viewed here. The responses by others are below: