I don’t know enough to know what to make of this case and the arguments on both sides. But that sentence seems pretty clear to me—I think the states wanted to block PP as a provider of any Medicaid-funded services, apparently based on the expose of their trafficking in tissue sales.
If I understand this not-too-clear article and Justice Thomas correctly, the issue as he sees it at least is whether individual Medicaid recipients have standing to challenge such a prohibition.
“I think the states wanted to block PP as a provider of any Medicaid-funded services”
That makes sense. This original:
“The case concerned whether states can block Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood affiliates”
Makes it seem the funds are from Planned Parenthood, not to them.
It should say “block Medicaid funds from going to Planned Parenthood affiliates”
Bump