U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Kerr v. Planned Parenthood
Case Will Address a State’s Ability to Direct Taxpayer Funds Away from Abortion
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WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Kerr v. Planned Parenthood. At issue is a 2018 order by South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster to the state’s Department of Health and Human Services to stop abortion facilities from receiving taxpayer
funds from the state’s Medicaid program.
The following is a statement from Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life:
We are pleased that the U.S. Supreme Court will take up Kerr v. Planned Parenthood. Taxpayers should not be forced into supporting or
supplementing abortion facilities and states should not be forced to override state pro-life laws that citizens support.
No American taxpayer should be forced to use their hard-earned
dollars to put more money toward Planned Parenthood’s over $2 billion a year in funding. It is good that the U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on the rights of citizens to direct how their state spends taxpayer funds.
Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates, is the nation's oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
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