States can now block the country's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid money. The organization argues Medicaid pays for its patients' overall healthcare, and those funds already cannot be used to pay for abortions in most cases.

A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country’s biggest abortion provider.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, the nonprofit's arm that covers South Carolina, can't sue the state over its closing off of the nonprofit's Medicaid fundi