In 2022, after the high court overturned abortion as a constitutional right, South Carolina banned abortion at about six weeks' gestation.
Now, thanks to the 6-3 ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, Caitlin Connors of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America says the state has been given the green light to keep Medicaid dollars away from the abortion industry.
States can no longer be forced to fund Planned Parenthood or other abortion businesses through their Medicaid programs.
"This is a really huge win for moms and babies, of course, and also the taxpayers," Connors tells AFN. "That really opens up a pathway for those who are truly vulnerable people with disabilities, the elderly."
This comes amid Republicans' push to completely defund the nation's largest abortion provider, as public healthcare money is not supposed to be used to pay for abortions.
Conners asserts the ruling does not affect the real healthcare that is available in South Carolina and elsewhere.
Planned Parenthood's own reports show their abortion services continuously go up, and their other services continuously go down while about 40% of its national revenue comes from the taxpayer – over $500 million from the Medicaid program.
In South Carolina alone, where there are two Planned Parenthoods, the ratio of community health centers to abortion giant facilities is 58-1. Nationwide, there are 15 community health centers to every one Planned Parenthood.
The pro-lifer says this ruling frees up tax dollars for those real healthcare providers and stops abortion providers from using that money on political campaigns to elect radical pro-abortion officials in the states, in Congress, and even the White House.
She says this win is a major step forward with what SBA Pro-Life America hopes to accomplish in President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill," which could also potentially defund big abortion.
