Illinois’ attorney general says a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling which blocked America’s largest abortion provider from suing the state of South Carolina for refusing to give the abortion provider Medicaid money should also bolster Illinois’ claims that abortion opponents cannot sue to strike down an Illinois law requiring all health insurers to pay for abortions.
On June 30, lawyers with the office of Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed a brief in federal court in Chicago in support of their effort to dismiss a lawsuit brought by pro-life advocates suing the state over the new state law mandating abortion coverage in private health insurance plans.
The brief specifically argued the Supreme Court’s June ruling in the case known as Medina v Planned Parenthood blocks at least some of the ability of pro-life advocates to sue the state under the same laws addressed in the Medina case.
In the Medina case, Planned Parenthood and a South Carolina woman argued federal law doesn’t allow the state of South Carolina from refusing to allow Medicaid money to be used to pay for health care services received through Planned Parenthood.
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