Harris v. McRae

Harris v. McRae
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 21, 1980 Decided June 30, 1980
Full case name	Patricia Harris, Secretary of Health and Human Services v. Cora McRae, et al.
Citations	448 U.S. 297 (more) 100 S. Ct. 2671; 65 L. Ed. 2d 784; 1980 U.S. LEXIS 145
Case history
Prior	McRae v. Califano, 491 F. Supp. 630 (E.D.N.Y. 1980)
Subsequent	Petition for rehearing denied, 448 U.S. 917 (1980).
Holding
States that participated in Medicaid were not required to fund medically necessary abortions for which federal reimbursement was unavailable as a result of the Hyde Amendment. The funding restrictions of the Hyde Amendment did not violate either the Fifth Amendment or the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Majority	Stewart, joined by Burger, White, Powell, Rehnquist
Concurrence	White
Dissent	Brennan, joined by Marshall, Blackmun
Dissent	Marshall
Dissent	Blackmun
Dissent	Stevens
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. I, V; Hyde Amendment

Harris v. McRae, 448 U.S. 297 (1980), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that states participating in Medicaid are not required to fund medically necessary abortions for which federal reimbursement was unavailable as a result of the Hyde Amendment, which restricted the use of federal funds for abortion.^[1] The Court also held that the funding restrictions of the Hyde Amendment did not violate the Fifth Amendment or the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.