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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.
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.
Brief Fact Summary. Connecticut Welfare Department limits state Medicaid benefits for first trimester abortions to those that are medically necessary. Synopsis of Rule of Law. The Supreme Court of the United States (Supreme Court) should not decide legislative policy. Facts.
Susan Roe (plaintiff), an indigent woman who was denied funding for an abortion under the regulation, brought suit in federal district court against Maher (defendant), Commissioner of the Connecticut Welfare Department, on the grounds that the regulation violated her fundamental right to an abortion under the Constitution and her right to equal ...
31 Μαρ 2020 · In Maher v. Roe, the United States Supreme Court upheld a state’s regulation withholding public funding for abortion from poor women. Although the Court insisted that its decision signaled no retreat from Roe v.
maher v. ROE 432 U.S. 464 (1977) The Supreme Court here sustained, 6–3, a Connecticut law limiting state medicaid assistance for abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy to "medically necessary" abortions (including "psychiatric necessity"), but providing such aid for childbirth.
Appellees, two indigent women who were unable to obtain a physician's certificate of medical necessity, brought this action attacking the validity of a Connecticut Welfare Department regulation that limits state Medicaid benefits for first trimester abortions to those that are "medically necessary."
