Anti-abortion advocates braved frigid rain in Ann Arbor to participate in a nationwide protest of Planned Parenthood. “Everyone has a right to life,” Kristy Bonasso of Ann Arbor said at the demonstration Wednesday,

South Carolina was sued after it disqualified Planned Parenthood South Atlantic from getting Medicaid funding even for health services unrelated to abortion.

Legal, political and financial threats are pressuring the abortion-rights juggernaut.

The battle over taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood takes center stage at the Supreme Court in a South Carolina dispute over Medicaid providers.

Planned Parenthood of Michigan will permanently close three health centers and reduce staffing. The three impacted clinics are slated to close at the end of the month.

Several key conservatives on the Supreme Court left open the possibility on Wednesday that they could side with Planned Parenthood in a dispute with South Carolina over its decision to yank that organization’s Medicaid funding because it provides abortions.

Justices heard arguments in a closely watched case that could determine whether Medicaid patients have the right to sue if a state disqualifies a provider.

Planned Parenthood on Thursday resumed surgical abortions in St. Louis, months after voters in November enshrined abortion rights in the Missouri Constitution.

Planned Parenthood has asked a judge to overturn the Missouri health department’s newly published emergency rule governing complication plans for medication abortions. The organization also sued Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey over his cease and desist order.