{"id":16957,"date":"2025-04-03T01:14:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T01:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/supreme-court-weighs-south-carolinas-bid-to-defund-planned-parenthood\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T01:14:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T01:14:59","slug":"supreme-court-weighs-south-carolinas-bid-to-defund-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/supreme-court-weighs-south-carolinas-bid-to-defund-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Weighs South Carolina\u2019s Bid to Defund Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in a case arising from South Carolina\u2019s attempt to deny funding to Planned Parenthood. But the question the justices grappled with was a relatively narrow one, focused on whether individuals may sue the state to obtain medical services from Planned Parenthood unrelated to abortion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2018, Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina, a Republican, ordered state officials to deny Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood, saying that \u201cpayment of taxpayer funds to abortion clinics, for any purpose, results in the subsidy of abortion and the denial of the right to life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Medicaid gives federal money to states to provide medical care for poor people, but it sets some conditions. One is that eligible participants may receive assistance from any provider qualified to perform the required services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Abortions are banned in South Carolina after six weeks of pregnancy, and, even then, federal law prohibits the use of Medicaid funding except in life-threatening circumstances or in cases of rape or incest. But Planned Parenthood clinics in Charleston and Columbia provide services unrelated to abortion, including counseling, physical exams, contraception and screenings for cancer and sexually transmitted infections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Planned Parenthood and a patient who sought contraception sued under a federal civil rights law, and a federal trial judge blocked the South Carolina directive, saying that it ran afoul of Medicaid\u2019s requirement that patients may choose any qualified provider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The litigation that followed was convoluted and circuitous, focusing largely on whether that provision created a right that individuals could enforce by filing lawsuits. The Supreme Court has said that federal laws like Medicaid, which give money to states but only if they accept certain conditions, must \u201cunambiguously confer individual federal rights\u201d to give affected individuals the right to sue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That is a hard test to meet, and the court has ruled that it has been satisfied only rarely, most recently in 2023 in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/22pdf\/21-806_2dp3.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County v. Talevski<\/a>, a case concerning nursing homes. The statute at issue in that case repeatedly referred to \u201crights\u201d as such, while the Medicaid provision in the new case used different language.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It said people seeking medical services \u201cmay obtain such assistance from any institution\u201d that is \u201cqualified to perform the service or services required.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nicole A. Saharsky, a lawyer for Planned Parenthood, acknowledged that the standard was strict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt is a high bar to find that Congress put in place an individually enforceable right,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat we\u2019re saying is that this provision meets the bar.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Kyle D. Hawkins, a lawyer for the Trump administration, disagreed, saying the Medicaid provision lacked the required \u201cunmistakable rights-creating language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Under the Biden administration, the government had taken the opposite position, which Mr. Hawkins acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWith the change in administration,\u201d he said, \u201cthe federal government re-evaluated its position in this case, and we believe that the view we\u2019re advancing today is the best reading of the statute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The justices discussed at length whether Congress had to use \u201cmagic words\u201d to allow people to sue. John J. Bursch, a lawyer with the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian group that represents South Carolina, proposed a series of words Congress could use to grant an unambiguous right to sue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe list I would give you is rights, entitlement, privilege and immunities,\u201d he said, adding that they did not amount to magic words.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In response, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh said, \u201cI\u2019m not allergic to magic words because magic words, if they represent the principle, will provide the clarity that will avoid the litigation that is a huge waste of resources for states, courts, providers, beneficiaries and Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Justice Elena Kagan said the language in the Medicaid law could hardly be plainer. \u201cThe state has to ensure that individuals have a right to choose their doctor,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s what this provision is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last year, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., ruled that the suit could proceed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis case is, and always has been, about whether Congress conferred an individually enforceable right for Medicaid beneficiaries to freely choose their health care provider,\u201d Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/211043.P.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote for the panel<\/a>. \u201cPreserving 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He added that \u201cthis decision is not about funding or providing abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Abortion was mentioned only in passing in Wednesday\u2019s argument in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, No. 23-1275, and the case did not turn on the state\u2019s reason for trying to disqualify Planned Parenthood. But Ms. Saharsky said the dispute presented issues beyond a technical one about who can sue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Congress, she said, had tried to send a message: \u201cWe want people on Medicaid who are insured through Medicaid to have the same right that people who have private insurance enjoy because it\u2019s so foundational to individual dignity and individual autonomy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     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