Reproductive Justice Collaborative Responds to Supreme Court Decision Undermining Medicaid Patients’ Freedom to Choose Their Health Care Provider

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 27, 2025
Contact: Andrea Maruniak
andrea@intersectionsofourlives.org

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, denying Medicaid patients the ability to challenge their state in court to enforce the federal Medicaid Act’s “free choice of provider” provision. In response to this decision, Intersections of Our Lives—a collaborative of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice—issued the following statement:

“Yesterday’s decision by the Supreme Court effectively gives states the greenlight to exclude any health care provider from their Medicaid programs for any reason and regardless of the quality of their care. What’s at stake is the basic right of Medicaid recipients—people with lower incomes, immigrants, and people of color—to choose a qualified medical provider they trust. Our ability to make this decision is fundamental to our bodily autonomy, especially when seeking reproductive health care and the range of related services Planned Parenthood provides, such as cancer screenings, family planning, birth control, and basic gynecological care.

“As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in her dissent, this decision ‘will strip those South Carolinians—and countless other Medicaid recipients around the country—of a deeply personal freedom: the ability to decide who treats us at our most vulnerable.’ But to our communities, our allies, and everyone who relies on Planned Parenthood for care, we will continue to resist and fight for policies and systems that support reproductive justice and center the needs and experiences of women and gender-expansive people of color.”

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Intersections of Our Lives is a collaboration of In Our Own Voice: National Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda (In Our Own Voice), the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF), and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice (Latina Institute), three women of color-led national reproductive justice organizations with both a federal and statewide presence. For more information about Intersections of Our Lives, visit: IntersectionsofOurLives.org.