The high court issued a resounding win for abortion clinics challenging a ban on using Medicaid funding for the procedure. In fact, it excludes coverage regardless of whether the abortion is therapeutic, except in three limited circumstances.The right to reproductive autonomy is deeply grounded in the US Constitution and is about much more than Roe and the right to abortion. The gravamen of their complaint is that MA covers childbirth but not abortion. Petition for Review ¶33. The late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor played a key role in some of the Supreme Court's major decisions during her nearly 25 years on the bench. Determination that pregnancy discrimination is not a form of sex discrimination under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. A form of sex discrimination under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection. The Lynch dissenters to form the majority in Allegheny County. First Amendment and imbedded in the Fourteenth.