By Charlie Butts, OneNewsNow - In 1993, the state legislature passed a law banning taxpayer funding of elective abortions, except in certain circumstances. But as noted by Dr. Wanda Franz of West Virginians for Life, it was challenged in court... "The Panepinto decision determined that [the law] was null and void and instead ... found in our state constitution the right of women to have elective abortions paid for by the state of West Virginia with Medicaid funds," she tells OneNewsNow – which means taxpayers have funded about 35,000 abortions.