Pennsylvania high court revives a case challenging Medicaid limits for abortions
The court's 3-2 decision overturns a decision to dismiss the case and puts aside a 1985 state Supreme Court decision that upheld a law banning the use of state Medicaid dollars for abortion.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania's Supreme Court said Monday that a lower court must hear a challenge to the constitutionality of a decades-old state law that limits the use of Medicaid dollars to cover the cost of abortions, a major victory for Planned Parenthood and the abortion clinic operators who sued.
The decision also elicited hope that the state Supreme Court may one day find a right to abortion in Pennsylvania's constitution after
