(Life News)—Since the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that the Constitution contains no right to abortion, the abortion industry has waged a campaign to ensure that an abortion right would continue in effect, if not in law.
Planned Parenthood, the cause’s corporate embodiment, won another victory in that campaign on Monday when it convinced a federal judge in Boston that by excluding Planned Parenthood from Medicaid reimbursements, Congress violated the First Amendment and unconstitutionally punished the abortion provider.
The Massachusetts litigation concerns Planned Parenthood’s challenge to the recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a provision of which disqualified organizations like Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.
Federal law already prohibits public funding of abortions, but because money is fungible, public funds paid to Planned Parenthood, even for other medical services, still effectively underwrite the abortion business.
The act is a spending bill, a type of bill that usually implicates constitutional concerns only if it coerces or misleads the states that agree to take federal funds. Seldom do these bills grant enforceable rights to third parties, like Medicaid providers or patients.
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