Court Opinion

ID: 9853829
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:56:04.840399+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:09.914719
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Justice Parker
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. In my view the determinative question in this case is not whether there is a fundamental right to have the State fund an abortion. Clearly, no such right exists. The determinative question is whether the State’s policy of refusing to fund medically necessary abortions for Medicaid eligible women while funding all other medically necessary treatments incident to the pregnancy of Medicaid eligible women impermissibly interferes with a pregnant woman’s right to choose abortion without unduly burdensome governmental interference. See Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 35 L. Ed. 2d 147 (1973). Plaintiffs argue, and I agree, that the allegations of the complaint, if proved, would support a constitutional challenge under Article I, Section 19 of the North Carolina Constitution.
Accordingly, I would reverse the trial court’s order allowing defendants’ Rule 12(b)(6) motion and remand to the trial court.