Pennsylvania Court Strikes Down Medicaid Abortion Funding Ban

Tamara Ceaikovski

A Pennsylvania appellate court ruled Monday that the state constitution guarantees a right to abortion, striking down a decades-long ban on state Medicaid funding for abortion services in a decision that could reshape reproductive access for low-income women across the commonwealth. The divided seven-judge panel of the Commonwealth Court sided with Planned Parenthood and abortion clinic operators in a case that began in 2019 and grew significantly in scope after the U.S. Supreme Court

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