Kelsey Reichmann reports:
The Supreme Court undercut funding for Planned Parenthood on Thursday, allowing South Carolina to deny Medicaid assistance for health care services at clinics that also provide abortions.
In a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines, the justices held that a woman couldn’t sue South Carolina for refusing to cover medical care at her preferred provider.
Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Donald Trump appointee, said Medicaid’s any-qualified-provider provision was missing “clear and unambiguous ‘rights-creating language’” that would have allowed challenges to South Carolina’s ban on funding for Planned Parenthood.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Joe Biden appointee, said the court’s decision would result in tangible harm to real people.
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