Supreme Court says states may bar women on Medicaid from using Planned Parenthood clinics
Washington – Supreme Court Reigned on Thursday These states may exclude planned parenting clinics from providing medical scans and other health services for women in Medicaid.
The conservative majority of the court reversed the long -standing rule, when Medicaid patients said they could take medical care from any qualified provider.
6-3 votesJustice ruled the Medicaid Law, and does not give the patients a “individual right ına to the provider they have chosen.
The dispute opened an abortion. Medicaid is financed by federal government and states. Conservative states argued that funds should not be used in planned parenting clinics for decades, because some of these clinics do abortion.
However, so far, federal government and courts have said that Medicaid patients could go to any qualified provider for health services.
In the opposition, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will deprive Medicaid buyers in Southern Carolina, the Congress will deprive the only meaningful ways of strengthening a right they have given to them, and more concretely, these southern Carolinians – and the most common Medicaid buyers in the country – the ability to decide our personal freedom. He said. Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan accepted.
Planned parenting clinics provide cancer screening, birth control medical screening, pregnancy test, birth control and other health services.
The Congress pays most of the costs of the state for Medicaid and may take care of any provider who is entitled to fulfilling the service ”,“ any individual appropriate for medical assistance ”.
Lupe Rodríguez, Executive Director of the National Latina Reproductive Justice Institute, said, “Our freedom of attacking our health services and making our own decisions about our bodies and our lives.
Three years ago, the Supreme Court has overthrew the states of Roe and Wade and the ruler, which can ban almost all abortions.
However, South Carolina continued its legal struggle to prevent care of Medicaid patients in planned parenting clinics in Charleston and Columbia.
Former Governor Henry McMaster, who published the planned parenting ban in 2018, said that he did to protect the “dominant interests of his state”.
The critics of the movement, the state in Medicaid’de low -income patients who treat serious doctors and medical staff shortage, he said.
