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In 2018, South Carolina cut off Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding, aiming to prevent taxpayer money from going to abortions. Now, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the state’s case, which could have far-reaching implications for taxpayer funding for abortions and Planned Parenthood across the nation.

From The Daily Wire. The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear South Carolina’s case against Planned Parenthood, which seeks to cut the abortion giant’s Medicaid funding.

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South Carolina first tried to cut funding for Planned Parenthood in 2018.

Governor Henry McMaster, a Republican, issued an executive order directing the state’s Medicaid agency to take abortion providers off its “family planning” services list.

State law prohibits Medicaid funds from being used for abortions except in cases where the mother’s life is in danger or in cases of rape or incest. The Medicaid funds Planned Parenthood gets go toward the abortion provider’s other services …

However, McMaster argued that any public money given to Planned Parenthood effectively “results in the subsidy of abortion.” …

In response, Planned Parenthood and one of its patients, Julie Edwards, sued South Carolina to keep her Medicaid coverage.

The Supreme Court will take up the state’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that found federal law lets Medicaid patients choose their providers. …

The case will be argued in the spring. …

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(Excerpt from The Daily Wire. Photo Credit: Adam Szuscik on Unsplash)