The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear South Carolina’s case against Planned Parenthood, which seeks to cut the abortion giant’s Medicaid funding.
South Carolina first tried to cut funding for Planned Parenthood in 2018.
Governor Henry McMaster, a Republican, issued an executive order directing the state’s Medicaid agency to take abortion providers off its “family planning” services list.
State law prohibits Medicaid funds from being used for abortions except in cases where the mother’s life is in danger or in cases of rape or incest. The Medicaid funds Planned Parenthood gets go toward the abortion provider’s other services, such as STD testing.
However, McMaster argued that any public money given to Planned Parenthood effectively “results in the subsidy of abortion.”
“The State of Carolina has a strong culture and longstanding tradition of protecting and…
