Why Planned Parenthood Is Back In Front Of SCOTUS
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🗓️ 2 April 2025
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Summary
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments today in a big case about healthcare access and Planned Parenthood. The years-long court fight centers on South Carolina’s bid to push the reproductive care provider off the state’s Medicaid program. The actual question in front of the justices is a technical one, but a decision in South Carolina’s favor could prompt a wave of states to strip Medicaid funding away from Planned Parenthood. Alexis McGill Johnson, Planned Parenthood’s president, explains what’s at stake in the case.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, April 2nd. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Waddey. The show saying get out your Rosie the Riveter cosplay, because apparently we're at war, according to Fox News. |
| 0:12.0 | Look, when this nation used to go to war, people in this country would support the war effort with their materials at home and making things for weaponry and all of that. |
| 0:21.9 | We've got to do 100% buy-in over this bumpy period. |
| 0:25.5 | Just communicate. |
| 0:27.1 | To be clear, Harris Faulkner is comparing voluntary tariffs to the sacrifices Americans made |
| 0:32.3 | during World War II. |
| 0:34.0 | We are not actually in a global conflict, but grow your own cabbage and smelt steel for Trump. |
| 0:45.3 | On today's show, the White House admits to an administrative error when it deported a Salvadoran man. |
| 0:51.0 | And fired health and human services employees are told to take their complaints |
| 0:54.4 | to a dead person. But let's start today by talking about Planned Parenthood. As you probably know, |
| 1:01.1 | the Republican Party in Planned Parenthood do not exactly get along. Defund Planned Parenthood, |
| 1:07.4 | as in cut off federal funding for the organization, has been a rallying cry for |
| 1:11.5 | the GOP for more than a decade. Here's the head of Students for Life, Kristen Hawkins, on Capitol |
| 1:15.8 | Hill on Tuesday. This brings us to today's historic moment, where the pro-life movement stands |
| 1:22.4 | unified behind one single message, defund the entire abortion industry, defund their longtime standard |
| 1:31.1 | bearer of Planned Parenthood once and for all. And with a new Supreme Court case, they might get their |
| 1:37.0 | wish. At issue is Medicaid, a government program that ensures low-income adults and children. |
| 1:42.8 | Nearly half of the people who use |
| 1:44.2 | Planned Parenthood for health care use Medicaid to pay for it. But back in 2018, the state of South |
| 1:49.5 | Carolina prohibited Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funding. Why? Abortion. Now, the actual |
| 1:55.9 | question before the justices is a little bit of a technical one and not explicitly about abortion. |
| 2:01.9 | At issue is whether Medicaid patients can sue the state over a legal provision that says they have the right |
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