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March for Life Leads Rally as Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – April 2, 2025

Washington, D.C. – This morning, the March for Life is uniting hundreds of Americans at a rally on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to advocate for states’ ability to Choose Health, Not Harm for pregnant women and their children. Inside the Court, the Justices will hear oral arguments in Alliance Defending Freedom’s case, Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, in which the Court is considering whether states, specifically South Carolina, can choose to opt out of using taxpayer dollars to fund Planned Parenthood.

“People of all stripes are waking up to the reality that Planned Parenthood is NOT a legitimate healthcare provider,” said Jennie Bradley Lichter, Esq., president of March for Life, “Too many vulnerable women have paid the price as this abortion conglomerate continues to put politics over care for women.

“Today we stand in strong solidarity with South Carolina leaders to affirm their ability to stop the slush fund of taxpayer dollars currently funneled to Planned Parenthood. Instead, this money should be directed to the nearly two-hundred additional health clinics in the state that accept Medicaid and stand ready to provide women with comprehensive, excellent healthcare.”

A recent New York Times report in which more than 50 Planned Parenthood executives and staff from across the country were surveyed revealed:

• Numerous examples of botched care, including an inability to administer basic STD testing and accidentally placing an IUD in a pregnant woman, killing her child
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• Haphazard operation of facilities led to patients being prepped for the wrong procedure and some were even administered expired pain medication
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• Patients were commonly treated by “undertrained staff members”
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• The organization’s bylaws direct the majority of the hundreds of millions of donations they receive to political campaigns, not medical care
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In June of 2018, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster directed the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) to rescind Medicaid funding from abortion facilities, impacting two Planned Parenthood centers. Planned Parenthood sued the SCDHHS, and following litigation in lower courts, the agency’s director Robert Kerr appealed the case to the Supreme Court in June of 2024. Now, the agency’s current director, Eunice Medina is representing the state in this case.

For more background on the Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic case before the U.S. Supreme Court, see here.

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March for Life is a non-sectarian organization that promotes the beauty and dignity of every human life by working to end abortion – uniting, educating, and mobilizing pro-life people in the public square. It hosts the world’s largest annual human rights demonstration in Washington, DC every January.