The U.S. Supreme Court just delivered a major blow to the abortion industry with its ruling allowing states to defund abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood. In its 6-3 decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, the court confirmed that states get to decide who qualifies for Medicaid funding and can instead fund organizations that provide real, comprehensive health care.

For seven years, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) has defended his state’s policy against using tax dollars to fund abortion providers. This spring, my firm, Alliance Defending Freedom, represented South Carolina at the Supreme Court, receiving support from a broad coalition that included the U.S. government and 18 states. We argued that states should be free to direct Medicaid funds away from the abortion industry and toward real health care providers that offer women a wide range of services. The court’s ruling last week allows South Carolina to do just that.

Medicaid exists to help low-income Americans get the medical care they need. But abortion giants like Planned Parenthood focus instead on ending unborn life and distributing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to gender-confused children. That is not medical care.

They also don’t need public dollars, as they are already flush with cash. Planned Parenthood, for instance, received $3.2 billion from taxpayers over a five-year period. That’s on top of the hundreds of millions more it receives from private donors every year. And since........

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