{"id":293416,"date":"2023-06-21T18:45:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T23:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=293416"},"modified":"2023-06-21T14:05:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T19:05:38","slug":"supreme-court-south-carolina-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/supreme-court-south-carolina-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court gives South Carolina another chance to defund Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For one state, defunding Planned Parenthood is again in play. This week, the United States Supreme Court threw out a lower court ruling that had blocked South Carolina from ending public state funding to Planned Parenthood, sending the case back to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals for review.<\/p>\n

The case, Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic<\/a><\/em>, arises out of South Carolina\u2019s termination of Planned Parenthood South Atlantic\u2019s Medicaid provider agreement due to Planned Parenthood’s inclusion of abortion among its services. In South Carolina, Medicaid only covers abortions in certain instances required by federal law, such as rape, incest, or the need to protect the mother\u2019s life (read more about why intentional killing via induced abortion is not necessary<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n

On July 13, 2018, South Carolina\u2019s governor issued<\/a> an executive order<\/a> claiming that the purpose of the order was to prevent South Carolina from indirectly subsidizing the practice of abortion<\/span>. <\/span>The order <\/span>said that “the State should not contract with abortion clinics for family planning services.” It then directed Department of Health and Human Services (\u201cDHHS\u201d) to deem any “abortion clinics, as defined by section 44-41-75 of the South Carolina Code of Laws, as amended, and any affiliated physicians or professional medical practices, as identified and defined by Executive Order 2017-15, that are enrolled in the Medicaid program as unqualified to provide family planning services and, therefore, to immediately terminate them upon due notice and deny any future such provider enrollment applications for the same.”<\/p>\n