States help advance the case for defunding Planned Parenthood

In a step toward defunding Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court reviewed a case to do just that at the state level.

In 2018, the governor of South Carolina declared that Planned Parenthood is unqualified to receive Medicaid funds. Thus arose Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, now named Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, after a new acting director took over South Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services. Following lengthy litigation in lower courts, the Supreme Court agreed in December that it would review the state’s case to remove Planned Parenthood definitively from among Medicaid fund recipients.