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Outstanding. About time.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for South Carolina in its effort to defund Planned Parenthood, concluding that individual Medicaid patients cannot sue to enforce their right to pick a medical provider.
The court held in a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines, with the conservative justices in the majority, that the federal law in question does not allow people who are enrolled in the Medicaid program to file such claims against the state.
The ruling written by Justice Neil Gorsuch is a boost to the state's effort to prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving funding through Medicaid, a federal program for low-income people that is administered by the states, because it prevents individual patients from enforcing their right to choose their preferred health care provider. The ruling could also give a boost to other Republican-led states that choose to follow suit.
“Congress knows how to give a grantee clear and unambiguous notice that, if it accepts federal funds, it may face private suits asserting an individual right to choose a medical provider,” Gorsuch wrote.
But, he added, “that is not the law we have.”
Federal funding for abortion is already banned, but conservatives have long targeted funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides reproductive health services, including abortions where allowed, even when that money is for other health care-related services.
They argue that even non-abortion-related funding that flows to Planned Parenthood would help it carry out its broader agenda that favors abortion rights.
Money is fungible.
I would prefer the pro-life movement set up identical clinics across the street from every Planned Parenthood clinic, without offering abortions.
I have donated to such clinics here and there, but there aren't nearly enough of them.
It would be hilarious if South Carolina did not withhold Medicaid funds from the pro-life clinics and denied those funds to Planned Parenthood.
In that way, the pro-life movement would grow and flourish.
www.nbcnews.com
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for South Carolina in its effort to defund Planned Parenthood, concluding that individual Medicaid patients cannot sue to enforce their right to pick a medical provider.
The court held in a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines, with the conservative justices in the majority, that the federal law in question does not allow people who are enrolled in the Medicaid program to file such claims against the state.
The ruling written by Justice Neil Gorsuch is a boost to the state's effort to prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving funding through Medicaid, a federal program for low-income people that is administered by the states, because it prevents individual patients from enforcing their right to choose their preferred health care provider. The ruling could also give a boost to other Republican-led states that choose to follow suit.
“Congress knows how to give a grantee clear and unambiguous notice that, if it accepts federal funds, it may face private suits asserting an individual right to choose a medical provider,” Gorsuch wrote.
But, he added, “that is not the law we have.”
Federal funding for abortion is already banned, but conservatives have long targeted funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides reproductive health services, including abortions where allowed, even when that money is for other health care-related services.
They argue that even non-abortion-related funding that flows to Planned Parenthood would help it carry out its broader agenda that favors abortion rights.
Money is fungible.
I would prefer the pro-life movement set up identical clinics across the street from every Planned Parenthood clinic, without offering abortions.
I have donated to such clinics here and there, but there aren't nearly enough of them.
It would be hilarious if South Carolina did not withhold Medicaid funds from the pro-life clinics and denied those funds to Planned Parenthood.
In that way, the pro-life movement would grow and flourish.
Supreme Court rules for South Carolina in its bid to defund Planned Parenthood
The dispute arose from a long-running effort by the state to block the reproductive health care group from receiving Medicaid funds.
www.nbcnews.com
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