The bipartisan Senate vote comes amid growing awareness of the high maternal mortality risk in the postpartum period.

Sheryl B. Xavier, Rachel L. Zacharias and Alicia Macklin of Hooper, Lundy & Bookman PC discuss Medicaid coverage for abortion care and recent state court rulings addressing challenges to Medicaid ...

All but one lawmaker in the state Senate voted to expand Medicaid coverage for mothers who have just given birth.

In July 2018, however, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster issued an executive order that barred health care providers in South Carolina that offer abortions from reimbursement through Medicaid. That ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled that Planned Parenthood and its client had a privately enforceable right ...

“The sole reasoning is that Planned Parenthood sometimes provides abortions, therefore they’re trying to ... states the “substantial discretion to innovate” with their Medicaid coverage without being ...

Henry McMaster, a Republican, issued executive orders disqualifying Planned Parenthood from receiving state Medicaid reimbursements for non-abortion services, such as cancer screenings and ...

For the first time in 40 years, many of Planned Parenthood’s patients at the Glenwood Springs clinic will now be able to use ...

After World War II, German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller famously said, “First they came for the socialists and I did not ...

Some Supreme Court justices appeared open Wednesday to allowing South Carolina to deny federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

Colorado lawmakers are poised to permit the use of public funding to cover abortions after voters removed that restriction last fall — and proponents argue it will actually save the state money.

We have faith that Speaker Vos and his colleagues in the Assembly will answer our call extend postpartum Medicaid coverage from 60 days to a year.