Federal health officials are not enforcing requirements for Medicaid coverage of abortion in the limited circumstances where it is legal, congressional investigators have found.
At least 13 states are flouting a requirement to cover abortion-inducing pills, and one state, South Dakota, has for 25 years failed to provide the required coverage for abortion in cases of rape or incest, the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, said in a report made public this month.
The report underlines the wide range of restrictions that states impose on abortion access and Medicaid coverage of it.
Trump administration officials, like many of their predecessors, “have not taken any actions to address states’ noncompliance,” the report said.
