Oklahoma ending Planned Parenthood contracts OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma is withdrawing federal funds for three Planned Parenthood clinics in Tulsa that for 18 years have allowed them to provide food and nutritional counseling to low-income mothers - a decision mirroring efforts in other conservative states to defund the group. The State Department of Health notified Planned Parenthood of the Heartland's chief executive, Jill June, last week that it would be terminating its contracts with the Tulsa facilities at the end of December. The contracts are federally funded through the Women, Infants and Children program. This year, the Planned Parenthood clinics received a total of $454,000. None of the three offers abortion services, Planned Parenthood said. The Tulsa World first reported the plan to terminate the agency's contract. The head of the health department's WIC Services division said the decision was based in part on the uncertainty of future federal funds, adding that Planned Parenthood's cost per participant exceeded those of other Tulsa-area clinics. "There were performance factors included in this decision," said Terry Bryce, chief of the health department's WIC Services. Bryce denied any political motive, describing it as a "business decision." June called it a "shortsighted political maneuver" and questioned whether it was in the best interest of the women and children who received services at the clinics. "I thought the program was about the needs of women and children," she said. We're going to stand and fight to continue providing these services.