US GOV’T, 18 State rally in support of South Carolina, which divert Medicaid funds from planned parenting – ADF Media

Defenders of Life, Congress members also submit briefs supporting the State Agency represented by ADF

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Washington -The United States, 18 states, Congress members, medical doctors in South Carolina and defenders of life, filed briefs as a friend of court on Monday with the US Supreme Court in Medina v. Planned parenting South AtlanticS Alliance lawyers represent the Director of the Ministry of Health and Human Services in South Carolina in a case, which can decide whether the vapor countries can guide the financing of Medicaid-predicts to help people with low incomes- From abortion suppliers such as planned parenting.

Since South Carolina determined that planned parenting was not qualified to receive taxpayers funding under its Medicaid program, the Federal District Court forced the state to constantly restore the planned parenting. ADF attorneys appealed the US Court of Appeal for the 4th round, which ruled against the authorization of the state to terminate the planned parenting as a qualified Medicaid supplier. After several years of lawsuit, the Supreme Court provided an examination in December. ADF lawyers presented their initial brief with the court earlier this month.

“Taxpayer dollars should never be used to finance the abortion facilities,” said ADF senior adviser and vice president of the appellate intercession John Bursch. “Civil servants must be free to determine that planned parenting and other organizations that Peddle Aborty are not qualified to receive taxpayer funding through Medicaid. These supporting briefis emphasizes that the Congress did not create the right of Medicaid recipients to bring the federal court countries to challenge these decisions-the Congress intended to the Federal Courts to decisions of the second range of which suppliers were qualified to receive financing of Medicaid. We welcome the many civil servants, the defenders of life and the medical professionals who join us, urging the Supreme Court to restore the ability of states to limit public resources to best serve their citizens. “

“Congress did not inform the countries that section 1396a (a) (23) would expose them to [federal lawsuits] By burying a special, privately fulfilled to the right deep in Section 1396A (A) and fails to use the term “law” or another equally infallible language that corresponds to rights, “the United States wrote in its information. The decision of the lower court, allowing such a case “incorrectly applied[e Supreme] The cases of the court and contradicts[e] The recent exhortations of the court regarding the rarity of the provisions for the conversion of rights. “The planned insurance parent relies” cannot unambiguously grant any rights to the individual beneficiaries, which are applied through Section 1983. “

“Planned parenting has been represented for one year from one to two-thirds of all abortions in the United States, while offering an increasing number of other services,” writes the American Obstetrician Association and gynecologists, Charlotte Losier and the Institute of Charlotte Losier and The Ethics and Religious Freedom Committee of their information. “States should not be required to undermine their interest in protecting prenatal life by financing an organization that exists to destroy it.”

The defense of Alliance Freedom is the construction of a union, a legal organization with a non -profit purpose, committed to protecting religious freedom, freedom of expression, parental rights and holiness of life.

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