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Pennsylvania court overturns limits on Medicaid coverage for abortions
The divided Commonwealth Court said the Pennsylvania constitution protects abortion rights and ordered the state to revisit Medicaid coverage limits.
- On Monday, the Commonwealth Court ruled that the Pennsylvania constitution guarantees a right to abortion, striking down a 1982 law banning state Medicaid funds from covering abortion costs.
- Planned Parenthood and clinic operators first sued Pennsylvania over Medicaid restrictions in 2019; the case stakes expanded after the Supreme Court ended federal abortion protections in 2022 by overturning Roe v. Wade.
- According to Susan Frietsche, executive director of the Law Project, the court held that there is a "right to reproductive autonomy" at the highest constitutional level.
- Michael Geer, president of the Pennsylvania Family Institute, claimed the ruling forces taxpayers to "subsidize the killing of unborn children," while Attorney General David Sunday is reviewing the decision.
- Governor Josh Shapiro praised the decision, stating he "long opposed this unconstitutional ban." The case could still be appealed to the Supreme Court.
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Shapiro speaks on ruling against state ban on Medicaid for abortion
Harrisburg, Pa. — Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court ruled the state's ban on Medicaid coverage for abortion care unconstitutional, affirming reproductive autonomy as a fundamental right.
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Pennsylvania court overturns limits on Medicaid coverage for abortions
A Pennsylvania court has ruled that the state's constitution guarantees a right to abortion. This decision overturns a decades-long law that banned using Medicaid funds for abortion costs.
PA Medicaid abortion ban takes hit in court
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s ban on state Medicaid dollars paying for low-income people’s abortion care is unconstitutional, a state appellate court ruled Monday. In a 4-3 decision, Commonwealth Court said the state’s ban on these public dollars paying for abortions violates the Pennsylvania Constitution’s Equal Rights Amendment and equal protection provisions “beyond any genuine dispute of fact.” The case could still be appealed up to the state …
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