Family organization suits South Carolina due to the ban on medical aid

The updated legal challenge of family planning in South Carolina seeks to maintain medicaid in its health centers after the decision of the recent Supreme Court of the State allowed the restriction of federal financing.

The deposit challenges the constitutionality of the command of the ruler Henry McMaster (R), which prohibits Medicaid money from clinics that provide abortion.

The complaint asked the federal judge to prevent politics and allow the planned family in the South Atlantic Ocean to stay provided in the Medicaid program during the continuation of the case.

The organization runs two clinics in the state of Palmo. It provides non -miscarriage services, including cancer, annual physical offers, birth control, testing and treatment of sexual intercourse infections. But McMaster command said that because family planning was also an abortion, you should not get taxpayer money.

“What started as a cruciate campaign against abortion has turned into a greater attack on basic preventive care,” Paige Johnson, President and CEO of the “Southern Atlantic Family Organization”, said in a statement. “The southern Atlantic southern family organization provides a high -quality health care, and any attempt to remove our health centers as a care option for patients suffering from medicaid is not starkly but unconstitutional.”

“South Carolina had the right to exclude abortion offices from our Medicaid program. The latest family planning files is nothing more than a desperate attempt, the latter to unify the issue that was already determined,” McMaster spokesman Brandon Charosk told The Hill in a statement.

Medicaid is prevented from paying almost all abortion, and family planning does not receive any payment of the state or federality for the abortion it provides.

Abortion is legal only in the state in the first six weeks of pregnancy, in some medical emergencies and in cases of rape or incest.

The new complaint comes after the family organization and the Medicaid patient who spent a lawsuit against the McMaster executive order in 2018. This lawsuit, which reached the Supreme Court, claimed that the matter violated the federal law that allows Medicaid patients to take care of any qualified provider of their selection.

Judges said in June that individual medicaid patients cannot sue their right to choose a provider, and opened the door for South Carolina to prevent family organization from obtaining Medicaid financing.

Texas, Arkansas and Missouri are already prevented the organization of the family from seeing Medicaid patients, and the organization said it expects many other countries led by Republicans will do the same in the wake of the decision.

The amended complaint challenges the executive order as well as the budget passengers approved by the General Assembly of South Carolina, which seeks to prevent federal funds from moving to PPSat.

“This issue is not related to the legitimacy of abortion or the constitutionality of abortion. Instead, this issue revolves around providing basic health care services, unlike abortion, for its illness in South Carolina,” the complaint said.

It also warns that the planned family from Medicaid will end “it will have a devastating effect on its ability to provide a wide range of health care.” Organization clinics can be forced to remove patients, who will be left without an alternative provider or may abandon care.

The lawsuit comes at a time when the National Family Organization seeks to formulate a ruling in the new tax and spending law that would prohibit all its clinics from Medicaid. A federal judge prevented this ruling from valid.

This story was updated at 5:31 pm