The 6-3 opinion comes in a case that wasn’t directly about abortion. It’s instead about Medicaid funding for other health care services Planned Parenthood provides, like contraception, cancer screenings and pregnancy testing.
A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country’s biggest abortion provider.
The 6-3 opinion comes in a case that wasn’t directly about abortion. It’s instead about Medicaid funding for other health care services Planned Parenthood provides, like contraception, cancer screenings and pregnancy testing.
The ruling authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch and joined by the rest of the court’s conservatives could have broader implications for Medicaid patients because it blocks th
