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Roe and Poe, two indigent women, could not get a certificate of medical necessity from a doctor and challenged the validity of the regulation by suing Maher, the Commissioner of Social Services.
Facts of the case. In the wake of Roe v. Wade, the Connecticut Welfare Department issued regulations limiting state Medicaid benefits for first-trimester abortions to those that were "medically necessary." An indigent woman ("Susan Roe") challenged the regulations and sued Edward Maher, the Commissioner of Social Services in Connecticut.
Synopsis of Rule of Law. The Supreme Court of the United States (Supreme Court) should not decide legislative policy. Facts. The State Welfare Department limits funding for first trimester abortions to those abortions that are “medically necessary.”
the central question in this case is whether the regulation "impinges upon a fundamental right explicitly or implicitly protected by the Constitution." 'The District Court read our decisions in Roe v. Wade, and the subsequent cases applying it, as establishing a fundamental right to abortion and therefore con
Maher v. Roe Case Brief Summary: The case examines whether a state that participates in Medicaid has to pay for nontherapeutic abortions when it covers childbirth.
6 Απρ 2024 · Roe (plaintiff), an indigent woman, challenged Maher (defendant), Commissioner of the Connecticut Welfare Department regulation, that limited Medicaid benefits for abortions to those deemed ‘medically necessary.’ The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution does not require states to fund non-therapeutic abortions when they fund childbirth.
Although it found no independent constitutional right to a state-financed abortion, the District Court held that the Equal Protection Clause forbids the exclusion of nontherapeutic abortions from a state welfare program that generally subsidizes the medical expenses incident to pregnancy and childbirth.
