06/27/2025

SCOTUS Allows States to Cut off Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood

Many young and impoverished men and women rely upon the services the organization provides

A divided Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), along party lines, on Thursday ruled against Planned Parenthood, a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive and sexual healthcare in the United States, saying Medicaid patients do not have a right to sue to obtain non-abortion healthcare from the organization's medical providers.

The decision allows South Carolina to cut off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood. It also has implications for patients in other red states at a time when Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration are separately trying to defund even non-abortion healthcare offered by the nation's largest abortion provider.

The 6-3 ruling, with all three liberal justices dissenting, reversed a lower court decision that had allowed Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and a patient to seek to reinstate the group's clinics as qualified health care providers after South Carolina cut off all Medicaid funding for the organization because it offers abortion services.

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