STATE SUPREME COURT TAKES MEDICAID ABORTION FUNDING UNDER ADVISEMENT

The Pennsylvania State Supreme Court is taking a case under advisement that would overturn a ban on the state paying Medicaid for abortion procedures. Pennsylvania allows abortions up to 24 weeks but prohibits using Medicaid funds for the procedure except to save a mother’s life.  Supporters say the ban harms poor women but proponents say the issue was already decided when the ban became law in 1982. The state supreme court also upheld the law in 1985.