The 6–3 decision, with the court's three liberal justices dissenting, centers on a SC case involving non-abortion services.

The US Supreme Court’s recent ruling that Medicaid beneficiaries have no right to sue state programs for refusing to pay for services offered by abortion providers may have unintended downstream effects,

In South Carolina, $90,000 in Medicaid funding goes to Planned Parenthood every year, a tiny fraction of the state’s total Medicaid spending. The state banned abortion at about six weeks’ gestation after the high court overturned it as a nationwide right in 2022.