Should Taxpayers Be Forced to Fund Planned Parenthood? Supreme Court to Decide

WASHINGTON – Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood could be on the chopping block. The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case involving the abortion giant and the state of South Carolina. The question at hand: Does a state have the power to determine where Medicaid dollars can and cannot be used?

Outside the court, demonstrators, both pro-life and pro-abortion, rallied and held up signs. Pro-life demonstrators also sang Christian worship music.

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Inside, lawyers made their cases to the justices in Medina v Planned Parenthood South Atlantic.

The question at hand: Does a state have the power to determine where Medicaid dollars can and cannot be used?

Medina and South Carolina say yes because not allowing the state that authority infringes on state's rights.

In its lawsuit, Planned Parenthood says patients should have the right to choose where they go for Medicaid-covered "family planning" services.

"Planned Parenthood is the abortion giant in the nation," Sarah Parshall Perry with the Heritage Foundation explained in an interview with CBN News. "While is does provide miniscule services to the effect of mammograms or ultrasounds or high blood pressure checks, we know that 80 percent plus of the work that it does is in the abortion industry."