An updated legal challenge from Planned Parenthood in South Carolina seeks to preserve Medicaid for its health centers after a recent Supreme Court decision allowed the state to restrict federal funding.

The filing challenges the constitutionality of Gov. Henry McMaster’s (R) order that blocks Medicaid funds from clinics that provide abortions.

The complaint asked a federal judge to block the policy and allow Planned Parenthood South Atlantic (PPSAT) to remain a provider in the Medicaid program while the case proceeds.

The organization operates two clinics in the Palmetto State. They provide non-abortion services, including cancer screenings, annual physicals, birth control, and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. But McMaster’s order said that because Planned Par

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