{"id":52958,"date":"2025-08-06T05:19:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=52958"},"modified":"2025-08-06T05:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:19:55","slug":"states-can-withhold-medicaid-funds-from-planned-parenthood-u-s-supreme-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/it\/learn\/states-can-withhold-medicaid-funds-from-planned-parenthood-u-s-supreme-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Gli Stati possono trattenere i fondi Medicaid da Planned Parenthood, stabilisce la Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n U.S. Supreme Court. \/ Credit: PT Hamilton\/Shutterstock<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Boston, Mass., Jun 26, 2025 \/ 14:59 pm (CNA).<\/p>\n

Local Planned Parenthood facilities can\u2019t force state governments to give them Medicaid funds through lawsuits because Congress didn\u2019t create an individual right to the benefits, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Thursday.<\/p>\n

The 6-3 decision enables states to cut off public funds to abortion providers \u2014 including Medicaid funds that come mostly from the federal government.<\/p>\n

The court\u2019s decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic<\/a> resolves a dispute that began in 2018 after South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, issued an executive order cutting off funds to the two facilities Planned Parenthood South Atlantic operates in the state, in Charleston and Columbia. The organization sued and won in U.S. District Court level and at the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n

The high court\u2019s ruling Thursday overturned those lower-court decisions, pleasing pro-life advocates, including Toledo, Ohio, Bishop Daniel Thomas, chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.<\/p>\n

\u201cSouth Carolina was right to deny Planned Parenthood taxpayer dollars. A group dedicated to ending children\u2019s lives deserves no public support,\u201d Thomas said in a written statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbortion is not health care, and lives will be saved because South Carolina has chosen to not fund clinics that pretend it is,\u201d he said. \u201cPublicly funded programs like Medicaid should only support authentic, life-affirming options for mothers and children in need.\u201d<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t sue<\/h2>\n

The court\u2019s conservatives and swing votes formed the majority \u2014 Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Chief Justice John Roberts.<\/p>\n

Writing for the majority, Gorsuch said that private parties seeking federal health benefits through a state government can sue for them only when Congress explicitly allows it in legislation by declaring access to the benefits to be a right, which it didn\u2019t do with respect to Medicaid funds.\u00a0 He said the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services can cut off Medicaid funding to a state that the secretary determines isn\u2019t complying with federal rules but that a private party can\u2019t ask a court to force the state to give it federal funds.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongress knows how to give a grantee clear and unambiguous notice that, if it accepts federal funds, it may face private suits asserting an individual right to choose a medical provider,\u201d Gorsuch wrote.<\/p>\n

He added that Congress has done so in legislation pertaining to nursing homes but not with respect to Medicaid, a federal program administered by the states that provides a mix of federal and state funds to provide health care to poor people.<\/p>\n

The three liberal justices \u2014 Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented.<\/p>\n

Writing for the minority, Jackson said South Carolina is participating in what she called \u201cthe project of stymying one of the country\u2019s great civil rights laws\u201d and that the court majority\u2019s decision allows the state to \u201cevade liability for violating the rights of its Medicaid recipients to choose their own doctors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Federal defunding coming?<\/h2>\n

Abortion supporters decried the court\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Supreme Court overrode what the Medicaid law requires and every patient wants: the ability to choose their trusted health care provider,\u201d said Nancy Northup, president and chief executive officer of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which supports abortion, in a written statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, Congress is seeking to replicate South Carolina\u2019s ban nationwide, putting politics above patients in making health care decisions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have sought to cut off federal funds for Planned Parenthood in a spending measure known as the \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill.\u201d<\/a> It passed the House by one vote, 215-214, on May 22. But its chances in the U.S. Senate are unclear \u2014 particularly after the nonpartisan Senate parliamentarian ha stabilito<\/a> Thursday that portions of the bill violate Senate rules.<\/p>\n

Erik Baptist, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal advocacy organization that opposes abortion, said during an online press conference Thursday that \u201cat least 14 states in the country have taken action to defund Planned Parenthood.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he hopes more states do so and that Congress follows suit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the Medina case today did from the U.S. Supreme Court was liberate the states and allow them to take action to defund Planned Parenthood. So one shoe dropped today. We hope Congress takes the other action with regards to federal funding,\u201d Baptist said.<\/p>\n

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