Justices to Hear Case on South Carolina's Bid to Defund Planned Parenthood

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "Preserving access to Planned Parenthood and other providers means preserving an affordable choice and quality care for an untold number of mothers and infants in South Carolina.
54% : Medicaid gives federal money to states to provide medical care for poor people, but it sets some conditions.
48% : "He added that "this decision is not about funding or providing abortions.""On the contrary," Judge Wilkinson wrote, "our analysis would be the same regardless of whether South Carolina wanted to divert the funds because Planned Parenthood provided cancer screening, pregnancy testing or any other medical care it is qualified to provide.
47% : The Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to consider whether South Carolina may eliminate Medicaid funding for any medical services offered by Planned Parenthood because it performs abortions.
47% : "Lawyers for Planned Parenthood responded that the case, Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, No. 23-1275, was straightforward, and they urged the Supreme Court to deny review.
46% : "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.
43% : "Planned Parenthood and a patient who sought contraception sued, and a federal trial judge blocked the directive, saying that it ran afoul of Medicaid's provision offering a free choice of provider.
38% : In 2018, South Carolina's governor, Henry McMaster, a Republican, ordered state officials to deny Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood, saying that "payment of taxpayer funds to abortion clinics, for any purpose, results in the subsidy of abortion and the denial of the right to life.

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