Next month, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, a case challenging South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s 2018 executive order disqualifying abortion businesses from receiving taxpayer dollars.
As a homegrown South Carolinian, there is nothing more pervasive to my state’s values, nor diametrically opposed to our healthcare needs, than forcing taxpayers to finance big abortion businesses, and it should remain our legislators’ duty to direct those decisions according to the will of the citizens.
The question before the High Court is narrow: Whether the Medicaid Act’s any-qualified-provider provision unambiguously confers a private right upon a Medicaid beneficiary to choose a specific provider.
Federal law allows Medicaid beneficiaries to receive treatment from “any qualified provider.” The federal…
