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Top United States Court Allows States To Defund Largest Abortion Provider

Anti-abortion protestors outside the US Supreme Court

The US Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday for states to possibly cut off financing for Planned Parenthood, one of the country's largest abortion suppliers.

Planned Parenthood is already disallowed from receiving federal money for abortion care but the 6-3 ruling would also allow states to cut off repayments for other medical services it offers to low-income Americans under the Medicaid program.

The three liberal justices on the leading court dissented.

The case stems from an order issued by South Carolina's Republican governor Henry McMaster in 2018 cutting off Medicaid moneying to the two Planned Parenthood clinics in the state.

The Medicaid repayments were not abortion-related, but McMaster stated offering any funding to Planned Parenthood totals up to a taxpayer "aid of abortion," which is banned in South Carolina for women who are more than 6 weeks pregnant.

Planned Parenthood, which supplies a vast array of reproductive health services, and a South Carolina lady struggling with diabetes, submitted fit versus the state arguing that Medicaid clients can get care from any qualified service provider.

An appeals court ruled that Planned Parenthood can not be left out from the state's Medicaid program and South Carolina appealed to the Supreme Court, where conservatives wield a 6-3 majority.

The court ruled that a Medicaid patient can not take legal action against the state to get medical care from a service provider of their picking.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in a dissent joined by the 2 other liberal justices, disagreed.

"Congress enacted the Medicaid Act's free-choice-of-provider provision to ensure that Medicaid receivers can select their own physicians," Jackson said. "Today's choice is most likely to result in concrete damage to genuine individuals."

The Supreme Court ruling was invited by the anti-abortion group SBA Pro-Life America, which called it a "significant win for infants and their moms."

It clears the way for South Carolina and other states "to stop moneying huge abortion companies like Planned Parenthood in their Medicaid programs," it stated on X.

Paige Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, called the ruling a "grave oppression" and said it "assures to send out South Carolina deeper into a healthcare crisis."

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 case that established federal defenses for abortion gain access to, in June 2022.

Ever since, more than 20 of the 50 US states have imposed strict limits on abortion, or perhaps outright restrictions.