Supreme Court tosses ruling in favor of Planned Parenthood in Medicaid funding case

The U.S. Supreme Court has vacated a lower court decision that stopped South Carolina from terminating a Medicaid provider agreement with Planned Parenthood due to the organization providing abortion services. In an orders list released Tuesday morning, the nation's high court granted a writ of certiorari in the case of Kerr, Dir. SC Dept. of Health v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al., vacating an earlier judgment and remanding the case to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court ordered the 4th Circuit to consider the case...