In 2018, Republican Gov. Henry McMaster signed an executive order instructing the state Department of Health and Human Services to “terminate abortion clinics as Medicaid providers.” Planned Parenthood challenged the order in court, and a judge blocked the state from enforcing the order a few months later. The Fourth Circuit agreed with the judge’s ruling, arguing that Medicaid recipients have the freedom to choose a health care provider an blocking Planned Parenthood defunding.
But today, the Supreme Court threw out the lower court order, giving the pro-life state another chance to protect taxpayers from funding America’s biggest abortion corporation.
The justices sent the case back to the lower court to reconsider the case in light of their 7-2 ruling on June 8 in a similar case from Indiana.
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