The Supreme Court will decide whether states like South Carolina can exclude Planned Parenthood from Medicaid funding, a decision that could impact the rights of Medicaid recipients to choose their healthcare providers.
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Planned Parenthood Sues Over Idaho’s Out-of-State Abortion Referral Ban
Planned Parenthood sued for injunctive and declaratory relief in federal court on Wednesday over the Idaho Attorney General's assertion that the state's criminal abortion law prohibits medical providers from referring women to access abortion services outside the state.
United States Supreme Court Declines to Hear Case on Arkansas Abortion Law Ending the Use of Medication Abortions
On Tuesday, May 29, 2018, the United States Supreme Court denied Planned Parenthood's petition for a writ of certiorari in Planned Parenthood of Arkansas & Eastern Oklahoma v. Jegley (8th Cir. 2017). At issue is an Arkansas abortion law that requires doctors who provide medication abortions to contract with a second doctor who has hospital admitting privileges. Arkansas has three abortion clinics, two of which only offer medication abortions; only the abortion clinic in Little Rock offers surgical abortions. Arkansas would become the seventh state to have only one abortion clinic should the law stand.
