Rules of the Supreme Court for South Carolina for an attempt to defeat Planned Parenthood

Washington – The Supreme Court ruled Thursday for South Carolina for its efforts to finance Planned Parenthood, concluding that individual Medicaid patients cannot continue to enforce their right to choose a medical supplier.

The court held in a 6-3 taking off on ideological lines with conservative judges in the majority that the federal law in question does not allow people enrolled in the Medicaid program to submit such complaints.

The decision written by judge Neil Gorsuch is a boost To the efforts of the state aimed at preventing Planned Parenthood from receiving funding via Medicaid, a federal program for low -income people who are administered by states, as it prevents individual patients from enforcing their right to choose their favorite health care provider.

Federal abortion financing is already prohibited, but the conservatives have long targeted Planned Parenthood, which provides reproductive health services, including abortions where it is authorized, for any funding that it receives even for other health care services.

They argue that even funding not linked to abortion which flows towards Planned Parenthood will help it carry out its wider program which promotes the rights to abortion.

State efforts to finance Planned Parenthood were presented to the Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, canceled the Landmark Roe c decision. Wade Aportion Rights in 2022.

South Carolina now has a six -week abortion ban, which means that abortions are rare in the state.

Planned Parenthood offers installations in Charleston and Columbia which provide abortion care in accordance with the new law, as well as other health care services, including contraception, cancer screening and pregnancy tests.

In 2018, Governor Henry McMaster published an executive decree prohibited Planned Parenthood of South Atlantic, the local subsidiary of the national group, to provide family planning services under Medicaid.

Julie Edwards, a patient eligible for Medicaid who wishes to use Planned Parenthood, joined a legal action filed by the group, affirming that by virtue of the Federal Civil Rights Act, she could enforce her rights in court.

A federal judge ruled in his favor and, after a long dispute, the Supreme Court agreed to weigh.