SC Planned Parenthood advocates react after SCOTUS rules states can cut off Medicaid funding
In a decision of six to three, the U.S. Supreme Court justices determined that states have the right to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.
In a decision of six to three, the U.S. Supreme Court justices determined that states have the right to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.
During the oral arguments for Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic on Wednesday before the United States Supreme Court, Gov. Henry McMaster defended South Carolina’s right to exclude abortion providers from the Medicaid program.
Governor McMaster spoke in D.C. after the Supreme Court hearing on Wednesday, saying, “The right to life is the most precious of all. It is the object of every law passed in our country and our principles of why we are a country.”
“What you have gone through is not okay, it will never be okay, and we will not stop pushing for justice until our reproductive rights are restored and protected. I stand for the right to abortion and I stand by the decision I made to have one,” Shelton says through tears.
On Monday, Feb. 10, Governor Henry McMaster filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood.
South Carolina’s abortion laws are going back to court.
South Carolina’s ban on abortions after roughly six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant, returned to court Thursday with Planned Parenthood and the state arguing over what could be two different ways to define a heartbeat in the law.
Officials with Planned Parenthood made arguments at the Richland County Courthouse over South Carolina’s fetal heartbeat abortion ban that went into effect last summer.
A South Carolina woman who traveled elsewhere for an abortion just days after reaching six weeks of pregnancy wants a court to affirm that the state’s ban on the procedure — when a “fetal heartbeat” can be detected — should not take effect until later in a pregnancy.
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic released a Statement from Jenny Black, President & CEO on SC Supreme Court fetal heartbeat ruling