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Planned Parenthood role as Indiana Medicaid provider at risk as AG strikes at decade-old injunction
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s office wants to vacate a 12-year-old injunction on an abortion provider state funding ban — risking Planned Parenthood’s participation in Indiana’s Medicaid program.
“That injunction’s legal foundation has entirely eroded,” the office wrote in a brief last month, more than 11 years after the most recent filing in a long-dormant lawsuit with the reproductive health care group.
It cited a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, handed down the month prior, that Medicaid patients don’t have the right to sue to see their doctor of choice.
The ruling allows South Carolina to exclude clinics that also provide abortions from its Medicaid program, pending permission from a lower court. Indiana could draw on that new precedent.
But Planned Parenthood’s Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Alaska, Indiana, and Kentucky chapter warns that health care access is in jeopardy.
“That injunction’s legal foundation has entirely eroded,” the office wrote in a brief last month, more than 11 years after the most recent filing in a long-dormant lawsuit with the reproductive health care group.
It cited a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, handed down the month prior, that Medicaid patients don’t have the right to sue to see their doctor of choice.
The ruling allows South Carolina to exclude clinics that also provide abortions from its Medicaid program, pending permission from a lower court. Indiana could draw on that new precedent.
But Planned Parenthood’s Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Alaska, Indiana, and Kentucky chapter warns that health care access is in jeopardy.
https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/planned-parenthood-role-as-indiana-medicaid-provider-at-risk-as-ag-strikes-at-decade-old-injunction
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