INDIANAPOLIS (LifeSiteNews) — Indiana Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita is asking the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate a 2012 injunction excluding Planned Parenthood from state Medicaid dollars in light of the Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision on the subject.

Late last month, the nation’s highest court ruled that South Carolina can exclude Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid health insurance program, as individuals do not have the “right” to have specific providers included in the taxpayer-funded program. The ruling opened the door for states all over the country to cut off the abortion giant.

“Just last week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the premise underlying this Court’s injunction: It held that Planned Parenthood cannot enforce Medicaid’s any-qualified-provider provision in federal court against a State that withdraws subsidies for abortion. See Medina v. Planned Parenthood S. Atl., No. 23-1275, 2025 WL 1758505, at *11 (U.S. June 26, 2025). With that change in the law, this Court’s judgment and injunction in Planned Parenthood’s favor can no longer stand,” Rokita’s office argued July 3. “This Court should vacate the permanent injunction and judgment, and ‘promptly’ return to Indiana the power to enforce its duly enacted laws.”

“We are thankful for the attorney general’s quick action in seeking the removal of the 2012 injunction,” Indiana Right to Life president and CEO Mike Fichter responded. “Indiana became the first state in the nation to remove Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood, yet this injunction blocked this defunding from ever taking effect. This opens new opportunities for greater support of life-affirming services helping moms and babies in Indiana.”

Within weeks of returning to office, President Donald Trump began enforcing the Hyde Amendment (which forbids most federal funds from directly supporting elective abortions), reinstated the Mexico City Policy (which forbids non-governmental organizations from using taxpayer dollars for elective abortions abroad), and cut millions in pro-abortion subsidies by freezing U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) spending. 

In March, the administration froze Title X “family planning” grants to nonprofits it said violated its executive orders on immigration and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, including Planned Parenthood affiliates in nine states.

Last weekend, Trump signed his controversial “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” into law, a wide-ranging policy package that includes a one-year ban on federal tax dollars going to any entity that provides abortions for reasons other than rape, incest, or supposed threats to the mother’s life. 

Last year, Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual report revealed that its affiliates across the nation took in $699.3 million in government “health services” reimbursements and grants, accounting for 39 percent of its total revenue during that period. 

Losing some of that money has taken a considerable toll, causing closures in several states, and while evidence indicates that so-called “telehealth” abortions have helped sustain the industry after Roe, it cannot fully cancel out the deterrent effect of making surgical abortions harder to obtain.

Other Republicans have proposed standalone measures to fully cut off Planned Parenthood’s government funding: the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act, which permanently bans federal funds from being used for abortion; and the Defund Planned Parenthood Act, which disqualifies Planned Parenthood and its affiliates specifically. But they would require 60 votes to make it through the Senate.