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1. This affects all 50 states and U.S. territories, not just South Carolina and/or the states within the Fourth Circuit of the U.S. Courts of Appeals: Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.

2. The federal statute stated that ANY office, clinic, etc. could be the choice of a Medicaid recipient. Planned Parenthood was not excluded in the statute. Gorsuch used such twisted logic, that this case is akin to the "reasoning" used in Dred Scott, Plessy, Buck v Bell, etc. The majority wanted this result and was willing to accept any route to get to it.

3. As stated by the Governor, only 3% of PP's services are abortion, even in the blue states. (Red states, forget about it.) SCOTUS ruling prohibits other gynecological services from women without means and/or health insurance, e.g., cervical cancer screenings (PAP tests), rape aftercare, birth control, pregnancy care with nutrition advice, abnormal menstrual cycles, screening for endometriosis, pregnancy tests, monitoring for ectopic pregnancy, screening for breast cancer/uterine cancer/ovarian cancer, etc.

4. As there aren't a notable amount of commercial women's health services as available and affordable as PP, Medicaid patients will be forced into already overcrowded clinics with long waiting times. And sometimes, conditions demand immediate attention.

5. Even if blue states don't opt to restrict Medicaid patients from PP, the national organization will lose a significant amount of money when their clinics in red states are forced to close. Even well-meaning private donations won't be able to fill that gap.