In a 6–3 decision, the Supreme court ruled that if states decide to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, patients cannot sue to stop them.

Now, I’ve been reading a lot about this and the partisan wonks and legal scholars will tell you this was merely a “technical” ruling that the ability of the individual to sue is restricted. But they’re obfuscating how important this ruling actually is.

What this decision truly means is that the highest court in the land has sided with conscience against the industry of death.

For decades, Planned Parenthood, while claiming to offer a wide range of “women’s health services,” has remained the nation’s largest provider of abortions. And all the while, they’ve been raking in millions, if not billions, in taxpayer money through programs like Medicaid.

The argument has always been: “Oh, but Medicaid doesn’t pay for abortions!” And technically, that’s true on paper. But everyone knows, money is fungible. If you’re giving an organization a massive chunk of change for “preventative care” and “STI screenings,” that frees up their other funds to end human life in its earliest stages. It’s a shell game, pure and simple.

Now, states such as South Carolina, can cease forcing their citizens to indirectly subsidize an industry they find repugnant.

This common sense reform has been resisted for decades. We have the ruling we want, we should act now.

This isn’t about denying healthcare because abortion isn’t about healthcare. It’s about respecting the conscience of taxpayers.

And it’s about pushing back against a powerful, politically connected organization with a massive body count.

This decision is wildly important and states should act now to curb funding to the purveyors of death at Planned Parenthood.