Supreme Court to Hear SC Planned Parenthood Defunding Case

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to hear South Carolina’s bid to cut off public funding to Planned Parenthood in a case that could bolster efforts by conservative-leaning states to deprive the reproductive healthcare and abortion provider of government money.

The justices took up South Carolina’s appeal of a lower court’s decision barring the Republican-governed state from terminating funding to Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, the organization’s regional affiliate, under the Medicaid health insurance program because the organization provides abortions.

Read more at Reuters.