The US Supreme Court is set to hear a case on April 2 that could transform how states like Alaska distribute taxpayer dollar funds to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s and Alaska’s largest abortion provider.
The case, Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, originates in South Carolina, where in 2018 state officials attempted to exclude Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid program. The decision was challenged by pro-abortionists.
Now, the Supreme Court ruling, which would not likely come until late summer, could have national implications, including in Alaska, where past efforts to defund the organization have faced legal hurdles.
In 2019, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy attempted to veto $334,000 in state Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, citing taxpayer opposition to subsidizing abortion services. However, the Alaska Supreme Court overruled his decision, reaffirming that state Medicaid funds must cover abortions under the court’s interpretation of the Alaska Constitution’s privacy protections. If South Carolina prevails at the US Supreme Court, it could set a precedent empowering states like Alaska to take similar action.
South Carolina’s argument is that states should have the authority to determine which healthcare providers receive Medicaid funding, particularly when it comes to organizations that perform abortions. Alliance Defending Freedom, representing the state, contends Medicaid payments for Planned Parenthood’s general overhead indirectly free up other funds for abortion services.
Planned Parenthood asserts that excluding it from Medicaid violates the program’s free-choice-of-provider provision, which allows patients to select their own healthcare providers. The organization points to its broader range of services, including cancer screenings, contraception, and pregnancy counseling, as essential resources for low-income Medicaid recipients.
However, data shows that Planned Parenthood’s focus has shifted in recent years, with a decline in cancer screenings and an increase in transgender-related services. In 2022, the organization reported performing 392,715 abortions nationwide—a 5% increase from the previous year. Cancer screening have dropped. In the past decade, total cancer screening and prevention services at Planned Parenthood dropped by approximately 71%, including a 72% decline in breast exams and a 74% decline in Pap tests from 2010 to the 2021-2022 service year. The big growth area for Planned Parenthood is transgenderism.
The Supreme Court case comes as Planned Parenthood faces financial difficulties. The organization’s Greater New York affiliate recently closed five clinics in a year due to budget constraints, and Planned Parenthood of Northern New England has projected an $8.6 million deficit over three years.
In Alaska, Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest has already scaled back by one third. The closure of the Juneau clinic in November 2024 left only two locations in the state — one in Anchorage and another in Fairbanks. Like other affiliates, Alaska’s clinics rely heavily on Medicaid reimbursements and federal Title X funding.
Adding to the financial strain, the Trump Administration recently announced a $20 million freeze on Title X grants as part of a broader $120 million review of Planned Parenthood’s DEI policies.
While abortion remains legal in Alaska due to state court rulings, many Christians and libertarian-leaning Alaskans oppose using taxpayer dollars for abortion services. If the Supreme Court sides with South Carolina, it could provide Alaska’s leaders with new legal leverage to restrict Medicaid funds from flowing to Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood, however, remains a financially powerful entity and spends much of its money on political lobbying and advocacy. It received nearly $700 million in taxpayer funds in 2022-23, mostly through Medicaid. Despite its financial dependency on US taxpayers, the national organization still holds $2.5 billion in assets and pays its CEO more than $680,000 annually.
If you do the crime do the time, if you roll in the hay & make a baby be man & woman enough to put the baby up for adoption. Imagine if you was an abortion you would be in heaven asking JESUS why?? I wonder who GOD admirers more the animals or the people he created???
If Planned Parenthood had a name that reflected their actual activity and apparent mission, what would it be?
Seems to me that Murder Incorporated would fit the bill, although it probably ought to have something in it about profiting off the sale of dismembered baby parts.
Participating in transgender transitions on minors exploits children and only increases their physical, spiritual, mental and emotional health issues.
Planned Parenthood exploits women by ignoring the mountain of evidence that abortion is a huge risk to physical, spiritual, mental and emotional health. The scientific medical definition of pregnancy used to start at “conception” because that is literally when the new life begins. The definition was changed by the medical profession in the mid-sixties to accommodate selling “THE Pill”. It changed to at “implantation” which occurs about 10 days after conception and ignores the spark of life with unique DNA which begins at fertilization. Now abortifacients are sold to women and when they ask if it causes abortions, they are told “no” because it’s not abortion under their new definition. One of many abortifacients is the IUD which disturbs the lining in the uterus causing the tiny new life to be flushed out instead of implanting.
“Pregnancy counseling” is a bad joke. I called them to ask if they give referrals for adoption and they had nothing. I’ve heard from hundreds of women who were talked into aborting when they didn’t want to. “Planned Parenthood” is a misnomer. It’s more of a death cult.
Wow. 392,715 babies were murdered by ‘planned parenthood’ in 2022. How many Alaskan babies did they kill? And why the h— am I paying for it?
As we warned for years, Roe would be repealed and because of Alaska legislators repealing Roe would not save a single Alaskan child. It didn’t.
This case won’t change our state’s radical abortion policies for the same reason.
Democrat-controlled Colorado has been trying to adopt Alaska-style abortion policies for years. We are that radical.
Legislators have handed Planned Parenthood victory after victory, beginning with the bill that implemented Roe-style abortion policies even before Roe v. Wade existed. The fact that Republicans have controlled the legislature at times hasn’t changed how legislators voted or saved one child.
This is the problem. Alito’s decision didn’t reduce the control that special interests like Planned parenthood have over legislators in Juneau. The fact that Planned Parenthood is closing clinics and shifting to pharmacies and mail-order hasn’t reduced the death of Alaskan children. Instead, the number of abortions has increased. And it has done so, unlike states like Colorado, using state tax dollars.
Republicans should ask, why when Republicans control the legislature do they vote to perpetuate the same radical abortion spending policies as their Democrat peers? How far down the priority list are those waiting to be born that they should be set aside as “not important enough” by Alaska legislators, year after year?
Cut all their funding. These people are murderers. 3rd trimester abortions unbelievable in 2025. We are running out of kids. There is going to be a bunch of Milenials sitting at the old folks home with no one coming to visit and no phone calls. I can’t think of a worse ending. Lazy people. Can’t be inconvenienced with kids.
Defund ALL Planned Parenthood and Transhood (now in that business too, I understand) These people make a hefty profit and don’t need (nor should they ever have gotten) our tax dollars.
What is the law in Alaska regarding abortion? Relatives called me for money- they were in Seattle with their teen daughter who was having the procedure, said they could not get it done in Alaska. All expense paid trip- airfare, meals, lodging etc., courtesy of Medicare? (you and me as taxpayers).