Members of Students for Life rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court building this week while the justices heard oral arguments in Medina v Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. That case, from South Carolina, comes after the state’s Republican governor barred Planned Parenthood from participating in the Medicaid program.
A patient who gets birth control from Planned Parenthood, and who is on Medicaid, sued Gov. Henry McMaster for his order that dates back to 2018.
A summary of the arguments by the Scotusblog website said the justices were divided over the issue. They struggled over the meaning and purpose of the federal Medicaid law, and the right to participate in the program, the story said.
Savanna Deretich, of Students for Life, attended the pro-life rally Wednesday outside the Supreme Court. She says even people who support abortion should agree taxpayers’ dollars shouldn’t pay for it.
“That's just kind of a no-brainer, you would think,” she tells AFN.
The other side angrily disagrees, however. So Deretich says she was grateful for a strong police presence that protected Students for Life and other pro-life groups who were demonstrating during the oral arguments.
“They have to make a circle around us at those events,” she advises, “because pro-abortion people will try to attack us."
