Supreme Court of Florida

Exclusion of Medicaid coverage for medically necessary abortions does not violate the right of privacy under the Florida constitution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/12/2001
• Published 07/12/2001

Judges

• HARDING, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Larry Helm Spalding,ACLU Foundation of Florida, Tallahassee, FL, and Bonnie Scott Jones, Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, New York, NY, for Petitioners., Elizabeth Cavendish, National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, and James P. Joseph and Julie K. Stapel of Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, for the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, Inc., Amici Curiae., Thomas A. Horkan, Jr., Tallahassee, FL, and Paul Benjamin Linton, Northbrook, IL, for Members of the Florida Legislature, Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• William H. Roberts, Deputy General Counsel, Agency For Health Care Administration, Tallahassee, FL, for Respondent.