The Alito 5 continue their efforts to assist the efforts against abortion acess in America….
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.
The decision means patients who rely on Medicaid will not be able touse the government insurance program for the poor to get services at the Planned Parenthood clinics in South Carolina.
The state already bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, and federal law prevents states from using Medicaid funds to cover abortions in most cases. But this case — Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic — involves other types of reproductive health care, such as birth control and cancer screenings….
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