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Supreme Court rejects challenge to South Carolina defunding Planned Parenthood

2025-06-27

[NYPOST] The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that South Carolina can defund Planned Parenthood, clearing the way for other Republican-led states seeking to deprive the country's largest abortion provider of taxpayer money.

In a 6—3 decision that split along ideological lines, the high court found the 1965 Medicaid Act does not allow individual patients to sue states over decisions to disqualify their preferred providers from receiving Medicaid money — enabling South Carolina to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood.

The ruling overturns lower court decisions that had allowed patients' lawsuit to move forward. The Richmond, Va-based Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals favored Planned Parenthood by slapping an injunction on South Carolina's implementation of its ban on funding for abortion.

''Like other States, South Carolina has an administrative process that lets providers challenge their exclusion from the State's Medicaid program,'' Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority.

''— private enforcement does not always benefit the public, not least because it requires States to divert money and attention away from social services and toward litigation. And balancing those costs and benefits poses a question of public policy that, under our system of government, only Congress may answer.''

In 2018, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed an executive order preventing all abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, from receiving Medicaid funding.

Posted by:Fred

#4 Why Johnnie can't read

Posted by: Skidmark 2025-06-27 08:25

#3 Planned Parenthood is in the business of killing babies. It provides some healthcare as well in the same way that a deli also sells mustard. You can get mustard at the grocery store and you can get healthcare elsewhere. Healthcare and killing are not something that you want to get at the same establishment in the first place. Nobody would drop their kids off at a childcare center that is also an adult bookstore. There is an inherent incompatibility to Planned Parenthoos and healthcare.

Posted by: Super Hose 2025-06-27 08:05

#2 ...The vast majority of South Carolinians are perfectly happy with this. Some - including my wife - are furious.

I understand the foundation of their argument; that women will lose access to health care. At the bottom line, this is true.

But.

There are 2 PP clinics in SC, one here in Columbia and one in Charleston. The claim that women out in the boondocks will be unable to get health care is not at all accurate, there are many, many clinics out there, run and or supported by the big hospitals in the state. The crux of the matter is that they won't be able to get SC-paid for abortions.

Secondly, the money that goes to PP doesn't go to improving that health care; it goes back to Democratic politicians. Without exception. That is actually MY biggest complaint - I made it clear to my wife that if PP stopped all political donations, I'll write them a check and walk it down to the office myself. PP at bottom is a money laundering scheme that provides abortions and contraceptives on the side.

And finally - and full disclosure: I skipped this part of the discussion - PPs roots are in the frankly eugenicist beliefs of its founder, Margaret Sanger. Look up her statements on who should and should not be allowed to reproduce.

Mike

Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2025-06-27 07:10

#1 SCOTUS' Medicaid ruling lays roadmap for states nationwide to defund Planned Parenthood

Posted by: Skidmark 2025-06-27 02:17

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