Planned Parenthood dropped its federal challenge to a 40-year-old Nevada law requiring abortionists to notify parents before performing abortions on minors as an appellate court allowed the law to go into effect this week.

Planned Parenthood’s shifting rhetoric now concedes that point. The abortion giant’s legal position rests on a fiction: Funding for Planned Parenthood is entirely separable from abortion.

In their challenge, Planned Parenthood and one of its patients had sought to use Section 1983 of the 1871 Civil Rights Act to enforce their right under the Medicaid Act to use "any qualified ...

(CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Planned Parenthood from suing South Carolina over the state’s decision to pull the organization’s Medicaid funding because it provides abortions.