States may soon be allowed to cut off taxpayer funds to the national abortion chain Planned Parenthood, a move that could put its abortion mills out of business.
While federal law for almost 50 years has prohibited taxpayer funds from being used to directly pay for an abortion, abortionists like Planned Parenthood have been essentially forcing taxpayers to subsidize abortion by using Medicaid funds provided for “family planning” and other services to cover the costs of the facilities and doctors who provide abortion.
Under a federal court ruling, most recently against South Carolina, states are not allowed to exclude Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid program. According to its annual financial reports, Planned Parenthood cannot stay in business without those federal tax funds, which have grown rapidly under Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
But a new lawsuit seeks to overturn this ruling.
The Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) reports it has “filed an amicus brief in support of Alliance Defending Freedom’s (ADF) Supreme Court case Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, in which ADF is fighting on behalf of the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to refuse to subsidize Planned Parenthood.”
Vice President of Litigation for SLF Braden Boucek said, “We are proud to support Alliance Defending Freedom and the State of South Carolina in their efforts to prevent the federal government from abusing the Constitution by forcing the state to subsidize Planned Parenthood. States have the power to set their own funding priorities. We are hopeful that the Supreme Court will agree.”
The SLF reports:
…(it) stands behind states’ discretion to direct Medicaid funds as they see fit. The State of South Carolina chose not to subsidize Planned Parenthood, a private organization, with taxpayer money. But a federal court determined that South Carolina must subsidize Planned Parenthood anyway. There are no grounds in the Constitution to allow for the requirement of Medicaid funds to be given to groups like Planned Parenthood at the expense of other pro-life organizations and without regard for the state’s stances.
SLF’s support of this case rests on the fact that the so-called Spending Clause must be reevaluated and reined in. It states in its brief, “The evidence unambiguously shows that the Constitution limits Congress’s authority to spend to its enumerated powers. Congress does not possess an indiscriminate power to spend in the name of ‘general Welfare,’ disconnected from its enumerated powers.”
In addition, SLF explains that the Medicaid Act does not provide for this kind of funding. “The Medicaid Act’s any-qualified-provider provision fails to provide either kind of clear notice that it is creating a right enforceable under § 1983. First, the Medicaid Act sets up a system where the recipient state decides what providers are ‘qualified.’ Critically, the Act does not define ‘qualified.’ It reserves to recipient states the authority to exclude providers for the same reasons the Secretary of Health and Human Services can exclude providers from Medicare.”
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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NO MORE TAX $$$ TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD. You want to murder your baby, YOU pay for it, and be held accountable to God. Do NOT involve those who do not believe in it to be party to murder. STOP forcing others to be a part in your sinfulness ie’ murder.
Yes please destroy planned parenthood and get some of our money returned, No Taxpayers Money, should be used for Abortions here or anywhere in the World, No Immoral garbage here or around the World, and all men banned from anything that is Women’s area sports and all else, and women banned from police, military, firefighters, unless she can pick up a 200 lb. Man and carry him to safety at least 1mile, or more, No woman belongs in these places unless she can do what a man does No Exceptions No Excuses, that is why physical and mental testing must be put back, I have seen cops, women cops, not even big enough to take down a teenager she doesn’t belong endangering herself or the person- persons she may come in contact with, and military, have to be able to help a wounded Soldier to safety, which most women can’t that endanger our Soldiers lives, so stop this garbage,
How is getting rid of Planned Parenthood good for public health as opposed to being harmful? Methinks there’s a bad move here which will require fake news later on.
Planned Parenthood is not planning for parents to raise children. Planned Parenthood is a death machine for the future of America and of the world. The logo for Planned Parenthood shows a woman’s vagina destroyed. Why don’t we steralize all women and that will spell the end of humanity? That is what is being practiced on the continent of Africa. That organization is 100 percent Satanic and needs to be destroyed. As the science continues to progress, it will be discovered that “Life” begins at the moment of conception. Abortion after that is first-degree murder.