RENEE B. v. FL. AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE

No. SC00-989.

790 So.2d 1036 (2001)

RENEE B., et al., Petitioners, v. FLORIDA AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 12, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Helm Spalding, ACLU Foundation of Florida, Tallahassee, FL, and Bonnie Scott Jones, Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, New York, NY, for Petitioners.

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

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.


HARDING, J.

We have for review a decision of a district court of appeal on the following question, which the court certified to be of great public importance:

DOES THE EXCEPTION FROM MEDICAID COVERAGE FOR MEDICALLY NECESSARY ABORTIONS VIOLATE THE EXPRESS RIGHT OF PRIVACY FOUND IN ARTICLE I, SECTION 23 OF THE FLORIDA CONSTITUTION?

Renee B. v. State Agency for Health Care Administration, 756 So.2d 218, 223...

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