Gov. McMaster ‘confident’ Supreme Court will back plan to cut Planned Parenthood funding
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster is “confident” that the United States Supreme Court will side with his office and allow the state to cut Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic on Wednesday according to reports.
After McMaster issued an executive order in 2018 that directed the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to stop abortion clinics from receiving taxpayer funds “for any purpose,” Planned Parenthood and Julie Edwards, a patient, sued the state and saw the governor’s order eventually blocked by a district judge.
The Alliance Defending Freedom is a non-profit legal organization that has long opposed abortion. Their attorneys petitioned the Supreme Court, asking it to hear the case and affirm that Medicaid recipients do not have a “private right” to challenge a state’s decision to declare specific providers, like Planned Parenthood, would not be qualified to receive taxpayer funding.
