The Heritage Foundation has expressed approval of the recent Supreme Court decision in the case of Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. The ruling, which was decided by a 6-3 vote, allows states to discontinue taxpayer funding for the abortion industry through Medicaid.
Thomas Jipping, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, commented on the decision: “Abortion extremists have long wanted to force everyone to subsidize their agenda, including through Medicaid. South Carolina had enough and found a way to push back. Today, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that American taxpayers do not have to pay for others to kill their children.”
Melanie Israel, a visiting fellow in the DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at The Heritage Foundation, also shared her thoughts: “Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, ended the lives of over 400,000 unborn children last year while receiving nearly $800 million in government funding. Meanwhile, non-abortion services like cancer screenings and prenatal services have declined over the years.”
Israel further noted that “South Carolina said, ‘no more,’ and now other states can do the same. Women can get high-quality, comprehensive care from qualified providers that are not profiting from abortion and sterilizing cross-sex hormones.”
The Heritage Foundation has consistently opposed taxpayer funding for abortion and supports the Hyde Amendment. This amendment is credited with saving millions of lives by preventing federal funds from being used for most abortions in the United States.