PHILADELPHIA, PA (Catholic Online) - The bill has been presented by state representative, Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) and will put all abortion providers at the bottom of the state's funding list. The bill is known as the Whole Women's Health Funding Priority Act. The bill was co-authored by the Susan B. Anthony List and the Alliance Defense Fund. 

The bill is similar to one that recently passed in Arizona.

Planned Parenthood relies on state and federal funding to provide abortions. Planned Parenthood also provides other services to women including screenings. However, women can access these services via other providers that do not perform abortions. 

While Planned Parenthood insists the money they receive does not fund abortions, it does so indirectly since money is a fungible commodity.

Best of all, the bill provides more for women's health because it diverts funds from Planned Parenthood to other health clinics that can provide women with better comprehensive health care. 
Mallory Quigley, the communications director for the SBA List referred to the bill as an "upgrade."

Quigley said, "The emphasis is on comprehensive whole woman care, so instead of them going to Planned Parenthood to receive one type of service, they will now be going to qualified health clinics where they can get mammograms, treatment for hypertension and depression, dental care, all these things Planned Parenthood doesn't provide. All it is an upgrade of women's health care without any additional cost to the taxpayer."

Planned Parenthood is already reporting a decrease in the number of visits and they are now having to charge for more of their services. It is now all the more important to let women know there are alternative clinics where they can receive important screenings and care without contributing to the evil practiced by Planned Parenthood. 

Six states moved to defund Planned Parenthood in 2011. Voting majorities in Wisconsin, Indiana, Kansas, North Carolina, Texas, and Tennessee have all passed legislation, however activist judges have stopped progress on the laws in every state except Wisconsin. 

Similar proposals in other states have been defeated by legislators and only Arizona has been successful in passing a law to protect women and children this year. 

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has pledged to cut all federal funding to Planned Parenthood. 

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