U.S. Supreme Court To Hear South Carolina Planned Parenthood Case - FITSNews

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "After another round of briefing and oral argument, we respectfully conduct that the answer is again yes.""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," the fourth circuit ruling continued.
54% : "In March of this year, the fourth circuit ruled (.pdf) Medicaid beneficiaries may "freely choose among qualified healthcare providers, of which Planned Parenthood is one."
48% : "This case marks the third time that we have been called upon to resolve the same legal issue: whether the free-choice-of-provider provision of the Medicaid Act creates individual rights enforceable (by federal civil rights statutes)," the fourth circuit judges wrote, seeming to adopt a tone with the high court.
45% : "Unless Congress 'speaks with a clear voice,' and manifests an 'unambiguous' intent to confer individual rights, federal funding provisions provide no basis for private enforcement," the court concluded in the 2002 case Gonzaga v. Doe.
40% : "I am hopeful that the Fourth Circuit will recognize that Congress did not intend to give Medicaid recipients the ability to force States to subsidize abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.

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