Sinaiko v. Zoning Bd. of Appeals of Provincetown

How courts have described this case

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• ruling Massachusetts plan violated the purposes of the Medicaid Act when it limited state-funded abortions to those necessary to save mother’s life or where mother was victim of rape or incest
• \enjoining implementation of [a Massachusetts statute] insofar as it prohibits state reimbursement for abortions which would qualify for federal reimbursement under the terms of the Hyde Amendment\
• dictum in Beal does not require a state plan to provide all services within a mandatory category deemed medically necessary by a patient’s physician
• States must fund abortion services in those instances specified in Hyde Amendment
• Massachusetts’s denial of any funding for abortions, unless necessary to save mother’s life or where mother was victim of rape or incest, “crossed the line between permissible discrimination based on degree of need and entered into forbidden discrimination based on medical condition”
• Hyde Amendment substantively alters Title XIX

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