By Douglas Andrews, Patriot Post, June 27, 2025
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that states can determine how their Medicaid dollars are spent, even if they decide not to spend them on abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.
Say what you will — and there’s plenty to be said — about the constitutional wobbliness of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, but this much must also be said: They’re real Catholics, not fake ones like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi.
We got a sense of this three years ago, when the duo stood up for babies and helped strike down the half-century-old abomination known as Roe v. Wade. Further evidence of their support for the unborn came yesterday when the duo joined fellow Catholics Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh — along with Catholic-turned-Episcopalian Neil Gorsuch — in ruling 6-3 that South Carolina can block Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood clinics. (The only Catholic apostate was, predictably, Sonia Sotomayor, who continues to believe that the leftist sacrament of abortion trumps the Church’s 2,000-year-old teaching that abortion is a “moral evil.”) ….