The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has stayed a lower court ruling blocking South Carolina from defunding family planning programs and has remanded the case back to the lower court for rehearing.

Scotas the judge ruled On Tuesday, Carr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic will be remanded to lower court following a 7-2 result. Judgment of June 8enabling Medicaid recipients to sue for civil rights violations, Reuters reported. (Related: Supreme Court rules 8-1 against union executives trying to avoid liability for property damage)

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The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Richmond, Virginia, ruled South Carolina’s public funding of the South Atlantic Family Planning Program under Medicaid on the grounds that the South Atlantic Family Planning Program provides abortion services. prevented from terminating the March 2022 judgment.

“At the beginning of this case, the district court issued a preliminary injunction barring the State of South Carolina from terminating the family planning provider contract. We upheld that decision at the time. South Carolina. The state is now back in this court to appeal the district court’s subsequent permanent injunction,” wrote Reagan-appointed Federal Circuit Judge Harvey Wilkinson. court news.

“In short, we are providing health care provider options to the socially disadvantaged, those who experience the same health care problems as the more privileged in society, but who do not have the same freedom to choose their own health care. We refuse to override Congress’ undeniable desire to expand the health care workers,” he added.

Mr. Wilkinson and two other judges unanimously agreed that South Carolina’s attempt to cut off funding for family planning violated the right of Medicaid patient Julie Edwards to choose a Medicaid provider. made the decision that there was The ruling upheld a permanent injunction by President Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Mary Lewis.

In 2018, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and Medicaid patients sued the state after Republican South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed a bill removing abortion providers from the state’s Medicaid program. South Carolina’s Director of Health and Human Services Robert Carr, who oversees the state’s Medicaid fund, is an opponent in the family planning lawsuit.

Planned parenting is Finding South Carolina’s six-week abortion ban was signed in May 2022, as the Supreme Court was preparing to overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Health, asking whether or not to legalize abortion. can now be determined by each state.organization is also calling Court packing and term limits for SCOTUS appointees.

A South Carolina judge blocked the state’s abortion ban shortly after the state’s abortion ban was enacted, and the state then appealed to the Supreme Court of South Carolina.