SCOTUS to hear case on state funding of Planned Parenthood - Washington Examiner

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "Out of the $1.29 billion in total revenue, $553.7 million came from the government reimbursing Planned Parenthood for providing medical services covered by programs such as Medicaid or from government grants from the Department of Health and Human Services," says the Planned Parenthood report.
61% : The group also more recently argued on behalf of anti-abortion physicians petitioning the courts against the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.
57% : According to a Planned Parenthood financial report from August of this year, 43% of the Planned Parenthood national budget in 2014-2015 came from government reimbursements and grants.
54% : The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals also ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood on appeal twice, once after an initial challenge from South Carolina and once after the Supreme Court ordered that the case be reexamined after a new precedent was decided in 2022.
51% : "ADF has a long history of anti-abortion judicial advocacy, arguing on behalf of the state of Mississippi in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case that resulted in the overturning of federal abortion protections under Roe v. Wade.
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 swiftly sued in federal court, and a federal district court ordered that the state permanently restore the abortion provider's funding.
10% : President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America Alexis McGill Johnson said the decision to hear Kerr proves, "People's ability to choose their sexual and reproductive health care provider is in jeopardy.""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," Jenny Black, president of PPSATMelanie Israel, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and religious freedom expert, celebrated the announcement on X."Planned Parenthood gets more than half a billion of YOUR tax dollars each year, most of it through Medicaid reimbursements," said Israel.

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