Supreme Court to hear South Carolina's attempt to defund Planned Parenthood

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The case centers on a 2018 executive order from South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) that ordered the state's Department of Health and Human Services to deem abortion facilities "unqualified" to provide family planning services under Medicaid.
55% : "Planned Parenthood operates two clinics in the state.
48% : The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear arguments about whether South Carolina can disqualify Planned Parenthood from the state's Medicaid program.
48% : It provides non-abortion services, including cancer screenings, annual physicals, birth control, and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections.
48% : Planned Parenthood and one of its patients sued, claiming the order violated federal law that allows Medicaid patients to get care from any qualified provider of their choice.
46% : The justices declined to take the case up four years ago but last year sent the case back to an appeals court in light of a separate case in which the Supreme Court ruled that nursing home residents whose care was paid by Medicaid could sue a state-owned health care facility over alleged violations of civil rights.
45% : "Pro-life states like South Carolina should be free to determine that Planned Parenthood and other entities that peddle abortion are not qualified to receive taxpayer funding through Medicaid," ADF senior counsel John Bursch said in a statement.
44% : "Taxpayer dollars should never fund abortion providers like Planned Parenthood," McMaster said in a statement.
38% : But McMaster's order said that because Planned Parenthood was also an abortion provider, it shouldn't get taxpayer funds.
34% : Medicaid can't pay for abortion except in cases of rape, incest or when a woman's life is at risk.
27% : "This case is politics at its worst: anti-abortion politicians using their power to target Planned Parenthood and block people who use Medicaid as their primary form of insurance from getting essential health care like cancer screenings and birth control."

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