The Supreme Court has declined to take up an effort by South Carolina's Republican leadership to cut funding to Planned Parenthood by excluding abortion clinics from the state's Medicaid program
The court, without comment, declined to lift lower courts' decisions to block an executive order by the state's governor, Henry McMaster, looking to exclude abortion clinics from serving as family planning providers under Medicaid.
District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis eventually blocked McMaster's order from taking effect, writing that Planned Parenthood South Atlantic was"professionally competent and is capable of performing family planning services for Medicaid patients" and that federal law"does not permit a State to pass a law deeming a provider unqualified for reasons unrelated to professional competence to perform the services at issue.
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