Gov. Josh Shapiro is turning off a multimillion-dollar funding stream to Real Alternatives, a nonprofit Crisis Pregnancy Center that discourages abortion. But conservative donors continue to pump dark money into organizations like theirs while opposing state funding for abortion providers.
At the end of 2023, Pennsylvania’s abortion landscape will shift again — just not for the reasons progressives have feared in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s 2022 overruling. Instead, Gov. Josh Shapiro is turning off a multimillion-dollar funding stream to Real Alternatives, a nonprofit Crisis Pregnancy Center (or CPC) that, among other things, encourages women to “choose childbirth over abortion.”…