Posted on 06/26/2025 11:06:15 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday for South Carolina to strip Planned Parenthood of funding under the Medicaid health insurance program in a ruling that bolsters efforts by Republican-led states to deprive the reproductive healthcare and abortion provider of public money.
The 6-3 ruling, authored by conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, overturned a lower court's decision barring Republican-governed South Carolina from terminating regional affiliate Planned Parenthood South Atlantic's participation in the state's Medicaid program because the organization provides abortions.
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The court's conservative justices were in the majority in the ruling and its three liberal justices dissented.
The case centered on whether recipients of Medicaid, a joint federal and state health insurance program for low-income people, may sue to enforce a requirement under U.S. law that they may obtain medical assistance from any qualified and willing provider.
"Today, the Supreme Court once again sided with politicians who believe they know better than you, who want to block you from seeing your trusted health care provider and making your own healthcare decisions," said Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Alexis McGill Johnson.
Lawmakers are trying to defund Planned Parenthood "as part of their long-term goal to shut down Planned Parenthood and ban abortion nationwide," she added.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, a Republican, welcomed the ruling.
"This is about who runs South Carolina - our elected leaders or out-of-state activists and unelected judges. We're glad the court got it right," Wilson said.
Since the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned its landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that...
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I can’t wait to see the reaction of our filthy bull dyke Maoist Governor here in the Gay State (Massachusetts).
My heart is truly warmed!
Democrats love democracy except when it doesn’t go their way...
Didn't know Murdering a child is healthcare, Alexis!
Defunding PP means also defunding Dem campaigns.
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