Originally published at: SCOTUS Allows States To Defund Planned Parenthood Without Recourse From Those Who Rely On It - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. Having the freedom to choose your own health care provider is something many Americans take for granted. But the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority ruled on June 25, 2025, in a 6-3 decision that people who rely…
I guess this is another ‘pull yourself up by your bootstraps’ action against the poor. Is it only a matter of time if, in the next three years, abortion is made illegal throughout the country?
I am not clear on something and hopefully someone can help: is Planned Parenthood a private organization? There should be some indication of the sources of their funding somewhere. If they lose this federal funding, as seems inevitable, what’s the future of the organization?
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Would be nice to have some boots to do so though. Republicans keep taking those away.
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Disgraceful, but not surprising.
I’ll never understand this wingnut obsession with other people’s sex lives.
Mind your own damn business!
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Agreed. Unless it’s illegal–pedophilia, rape or abuse–who cares? And the damned SCOTUS is ruling based on their religious beliefs, which I consider unconstitutional. As though they care about that.
OH! But “god” has told them that being the only ones who really understand what “god” thinks/wants, it is up to them to make the rest of us OBEY their commands. If you are the defenders of The One True Faith, you are not only allowed to do that, you are supposed to do it.
I have been screaming for years that putting a majority of Male Roman Catholics on the Court is a huge problem…and here we are. Religious Fanatics are incapable of logical thinking.
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Hmmm…
GOP Death Panels!
(Every accusation is a projection of future actions.)
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The case, Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, is focused on a technical legal issue: whether people covered by Medicaid have the right to sue state officials for preventing them from choosing their health care provider. In his majority opinion, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that they don’t because the Medicaid statute did not “clearly and unambiguously” give individuals that right.
There are 2 devastating effects of this ruling.
The first is that it is a backdoor way to allow for point of view discrimination. That state governors and legislatures can now have different rules for those who agree with them on any number of issues and those who do not.
The second is it denies access to the courts to people receiving Government assistance allowing for states to pick who does and does not get assistance.
My question is why is this not applicable to parents of or children in public schools. For example why does this not apply to religious or other private schools challenging denial of funding, or text books or anything public schools do if statutes do not explicitly use “the magic words”.
Shameless cowardly *suckers.
Can we maybe not have this ‘split court’ graphic at the top of this image that casts Sam Alito as ‘blue’ and Sonya Sotomeyer as ‘Red’? I get that it’s supposed to be this clever little venn diagram w/Roberts in purple, but a)he’s as R as the rest, and b)it fundamentally misrepresents at least 2 other Justices.
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