For 35 years, the state of Georgia has been funding Planned Parenthood of Georgia in Fulton County. On Sept. 30, the $420,000 annual contract was cut, Atlanta Progressive News reported.
And last month, Sarasota County in Florida dropped the annual $25,000 it had allocated to Planned Parenthood of Southwest & Central Florida for the last 10 years.
With the economy stumbling and tax revenues falling, Commissioner Paul Mercier said the county needs to focus on groups that truly need help.
"It's not political," Mercier told the Herald Tribune. "They don't need the money."
Dawn Vargo, bioethics analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said it's nice to see some counties taking a hard look at where their funding is going.
"Planned Parenthood already receives more than $300 million in federal taxpayer dollars to fund their anti-life policies," she said. "We hope more counties across the country will start looking critically at the funds they give to this abortion giant."
