By SEAN MURPHY
Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -
Oklahoma is withdrawing federal funding that has gone to three Planned
Parenthood clinics in Tulsa for 18 years and allowed them to provide
food and nutritional counseling to low-income mothers.
The State Department of
Health notified Planned Parenthood of the Heartland CEO Jill June last
week that it would be terminating its contracts with the Tulsa
facilities at the end of December.
June described the decision
Thursday as a "short-sighted political maneuver." Planned Parenthood
provides abortion services at some of the clinics it operates
nationwide, but not at the three Tulsa clinics. Anti-abortion activists
have been demonstrating outside Planned Parenthood clinics for years.
Oklahoma's decision to end
its contract with the Tulsa clinics comes amid recent efforts in several
other conservative states to go after Planned Parenthood's funding.
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