Politico: “The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared likely to side with Planned Parenthood in a South Carolina case testing whether Medicaid patients may sue for access to non-abortion health care fromthe organization’s medical providers.
After South Carolina cut off all Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood South Atlantic because it provides abortion services, the organization and one of its patients sued to reinstate its health centers as qualified providers.
The case does not directly involve abortion access. Federal law already prevents states from using Medicaid funds to cover abortions in most cases. But abortion opponents have long tried to stop Planned Parenthood from receiving government money for other health care, too.”