Supreme Court Rejects Planned Parenthood’s Challenge to South Carolina Restriction

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
June 26, 2025 
CONTACT: Carina Pacheco, [email protected] 

Statement from NAF President & CEO Brittany Fonteno on Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic:

Low-income and uninsured people in South Carolina already face disproportionate barriers to accessing health care as a result of abortion bans and systemic racism. These are the people who will most acutely feel the impact of today’s Supreme Court decision, in which the Court ruled that Medicaid beneficiaries do not have a legal right to challenge the exclusion of Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid program. The exclusion will put our member clinics from Planned Parenthood South Atlantic in an impossible position when patients who need—and deserve access to—critical care cannot afford to pay out-of-pocket. 

This is yet another cruel backdoor tactic to ban abortion. These kinds of restrictions only further complicate an already confusing and hostile abortion access landscape, create even wider access gaps for communities, and compromise the integrity of provider-patient relationships.

We won’t back down. NAF will continue to serve as a support system for our members, and we will do everything within our power to ensure our providers in South Carolina have the resources they need to provide quality, evidence-based abortion care to their communities.

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NAF remains committed to helping as many people as possible access high-quality and affordable abortion care. Anyone in any state can call the National Abortion Hotline at 1-800-772-9100 to understand their options and get the assistance they need, whether that’s help finding a provider, arranging travel to another state, or funding for their care.