Why AG Dave Sunday Is Defending PA’s Medicaid Abortion Ban

Pa.’s Attorney General Is Defending the State’s Medicaid Abortion Ban in Court. Is He Required to?

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — When Dave Sunday became Pennsylvania’s attorney general in 2025, a complicated situation awaited him. Two weeks after the Republican’s January swearing-in, judges on Commonwealth Court assembled in Pittsburgh …

Attorney General defending Pa.'s Medicaid abortion ban

HARRISBURG — When Dave Sunday became Pennsylvania’s attorney general in 2025, a complicated situation awaited him.

Why AG Dave Sunday is defending PA’s Medicaid abortion ban

HARRISBURG — When Dave Sunday became Pennsylvania’s attorney general in 2025, a complicated situation awaited him. Two weeks after the Republican’s January swearing-in, judges on Commonwealth Court assembled in Pittsburgh to hear oral arguments about the constitutionality of the state’s ban on Medicaid-funded abortions. A group of reproductive health care providers challenged the law in 2019. When Sunday’s term started, the state’s highest court…

Medicaid coverage of abortion begins in Pennsylvania amid ongoing lawsuit

A Pennsylvania judge has cleared the way for the state’s Medicaid program to begin covering abortions while a constitutional challenge plays out before the state Supreme Court.