Pennsylvania Court Again Backs Limits On Abortion Coverage

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Planned Parenthood and other operators of abortion clinics lost in court on Friday in their bid to reverse a decades-old Pennsylvania court decision upholding limits on the use of state Medicaid dollars to cover the cost of abortions.
The plaintiffs will appeal to the state Supreme Court, the only state court that can repeal the limits on abortion coverage under Medicaid, said Susan Frietsche of the Women’s Law Project. The loss in the lower Commonwealth Court