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For Immediate Release: April 2, 2025
Contact: media@sbaprolife.org

Planned Parenthood Routinely Puts Abortion Politics Over Health Care & Patients

Washington, DC – This morning at the U.S. Supreme Court, the state of South Carolina will defend its right to exclude abortion businesses from receiving Medicaid taxpayer dollars in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser and Director of Legal Affairs and Policy Counsel Katie Daniel will be at the Supreme Court for oral arguments.

Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research and education arm of SBA Pro-Life America, filed an amicus brief in the case demonstrating Planned Parenthood’s commitment to increasing their share of the abortion market while the number of actual health care services they provide has steadily decreased.

A victory in this case would make it possible for South Carolina to finally enforce its desired pro-life, good-governance policy to protect taxpayers from being forced to fund the abortion industry.

Katie Daniel commented ahead of the oral arguments:

“Planned Parenthood is not a health care provider, it is a multi-billion-dollar abortion business with a track record of putting radical abortion politics over patients. That includes this lawsuit, which would put a crushing burden on Medicaid by opening the floodgates for thousands of disqualified entities to sue states. According to their own annual report, Planned Parenthood killed almost 400,000 babies while receiving nearly $700 million in taxpayer funds in a single year, which mostly goes to lawfare and activism while women and girls receive dangerously subpar ‘care.’ They were rightly disqualified and shouldn’t get another penny of Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars.”

Dannenfelser added:

“South Carolina is deeply pro-life and has twice elected Gov. Henry McMaster, who has fought for women, children and taxpayers every step of the way. We believe the Court will recognize South Carolina’s right to direct its own taxpayer dollars toward real health care, not prop up partisan political organizations and abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood. This would be a big victory for babies, women and taxpayers in every pro-life state. Meanwhile, we continue urging Congress to finally defund Big Abortion at the national level.”

South Carolina’s case is especially relevant given the separate federal opportunity to defund the abortion industry through the budget reconciliation process. Although the Hyde Amendment and similar policies in the majority of states prevent taxpayer dollars from being spent on most abortions, abortion businesses – like Planned Parenthood – still receive hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers each year, freeing them to spend donations on abortion on demand, partisan politics and litigation instead of health care.

SBA Pro-Life America and more than 150 pro-life groups across all 50 states are lobbying Congress to defund Planned Parenthood and abortion businesses through budget reconciliation. Last week, more than 350 grassroots activists traveled to Capitol Hill to meet with hundreds of congressional offices.

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America is a network of more than one million pro-life Americans nationwide, dedicated to ending abortion by electing national leaders and advocating for laws that save lives, with a special calling to promote pro-life women leaders.

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