Supreme Court Rules States Can Block Medicaid Patients From Accessing Planned Parenthood

[Wicked Blue]

Source: HuffPost

The Supreme Court effectively ruled on Thursday morning that South Carolina can exclude Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs because the national health care organization also offers abortion care. The decision will deny hundreds of thousands of low-income patients their only health care option and paves a path for other states to do the same.

It’s the high court’s first ruling on abortion since the return of President Donald Trump, whose administration in February joined the case alongside South Carolina. The decision is a win for the Trump administration, which has made it a priority to actualize the GOP’s long-held goal of defunding Planned Parenthood.

The 6-3 ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic focused on the technical question of whether Medicaid-covered patients could sue in order to claim the right to use Planned Parenthood as a health care provider. Federal Medicaid rules allow patients to access care from any provider who is both qualified to provide the care and willing to provide the care, a provision known as “free choice of provider.”

Now, the court has ruled, South Carolina’s Medicaid recipients do not have the right to sue a state if it terminates their chosen provider from the Medicaid program for reasons unrelated to competence, opening the door for providers to be barred from the program for political reasons.


Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-rules-that-states-can-block-medicaid-patients-from-accessing-planned-parenthood_n_6841a12ae4b00b2e94c614d7

[bucolic_frolic]

1. SCOTUS (R) 6 is an imperialist dictatorship

They are not even considering alternatives to their rigid religious zealot mindset.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Link to ruling (PDF)

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-1275_e2pg.pdf

[Hekate]

3. So the poorest will be forced to have babies they can't prevent or afford, at risk of maternal death...

…and access to screening for cancer and STDs will be be cut off as well. Just because Planned Parenthood also provides abortions.

Once again, the message is clear: die, you sluts.

[NotHardly]

4. THE WAR AGAINST WOMEN CONTINUES UNABATED

[Farmer-Rick]

5. They got to catch you first.

I would take a short vacation to: California, Alaska, Delaware, Colorado, DC, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Main, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington or Wyoming.

All the above states and districts allow abortion up to fetal viability, the former standard for the entire US.

[Miguelito Loveless]

7. Who will pay for the trip?

[totodeinhere]

13. Unfortunately, you have to save for it or prehaps you could use credit

cards.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Sarcasm, right?

Please tell us you're being sarcastic.

[Miguelito Loveless]

23. Yes, that is going to be a problem for a lot of women

[Farmer-Rick]

24. Yeah, I know that will be a problem

Just moving to a safe state would be expensive, let alone taking a trip. It would have to be a long term project. Hopefully they live within a car drive to a safe state.

Yeah, women in red, unsafe states are f*cked even before they have sex.

[maxsolomon]

8. PP isn't just Abortion Care.

This ruling effectively shuts down PP in SC. And every other Anti-Choice State.

[quaint]

14. That post kicked my rage level up another notch.

Just shaking my head now, wondering at the elitism.

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. Yeah, that 'short vacation' sounds affordable

Especially to those on Medicaid.

[mainer]

6. Those are the same states that OBGs are fleeing

There's already a shortage of doctors there. So where are women now supposed to go for prenatal or GYN care?

Women, flee those red states! Bring your sisters and your daughters! Leave those states to the incels (who'll now have an even harder time finding women to date).

[rawhideal]

9. ALABAMA

Will be first to cut PP.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. "The Roberts Court, in one fell swoop, has: ..."

Reposted by Kevin M. Kruse

Mike Sacks
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The Roberts Court, in one fell swoop, has:

1) Allowed states to defund Planned Parenthood even for non-abortion care so to...
2) Rip away people's right to choose their care provider under Medicaid while...
3) Advancing a neoconfederate understanding of our civil rights laws.

This can't go on.

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KBJ's Medina dissent highlights the twin prongs of the pro-democracy vision she's been articulating since joining SCOTUS: generally deferring to Congress's will and specifically reading Reconstruction-era civil rights laws as robustly as their framers intended: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

June 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM

The Roberts Court, in one fell swoop, has:

1) Allowed states to defund Planned Parenthood even for non-abortion care so to...
2) Rip away people's right to choose their care provider under Medicaid while...
3) Advancing a neoconfederate understanding of our civil rights laws.

This can't go on.

— Mike Sacks (@mikesacks.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T15:07:40.763Z

[raccoon]

11. So, if you're not in SC but thinking to move here,

You might want to rethink that.

[Faux pas]

12. EFFING EFFERS

[FBaggins]

15. A somewhat deceptive title

The state can't block people from accessing PP... but they can (according to this ruling) refuse to pay for any services there.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Planned Parenthood may have already

filed a countersuit. If not, they will damned soon.

The Felon has to go. I don't care where or how.

[FBaggins]

21. A countersuit? This was SCOTUS

There's no undoing the decision except by winning elections in SC and changing the policy - or electing several new Democratic senators and a new president and changing SCOTUS.

[Polybius]

22. I can't believe this had to be explained

Agree with you, and wouid like to add that the only other way this could be overturned is with a constitutional amendment.

[Jit423]

19. ALL of the poor women in my family use Planned Parenthood for primary female health needs...birth control and

miscarriage and female health issues other then birth control. I am just crying now because it appears that Trump and all his followers just want poor and non-white women to suffer and die.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. So poor folks should have more children

and be more susceptible to cervical cancer. Brilliant!!!