After six years of legal arguments, the question of whether low-income Pennsylvanians can use Medicaid funds to pay for abortions had another day in court Wednesday, in the City-County Building Downtown.

In 2019, the Allegheny Reproductive Health Center and other abortion providers filed suit, charging that a state law restricting the use of Medicaid funds to pay for abortions is unconstitutional.

Last year, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled largely in favor of those groups, calling the law “presumptively unconstitutional” and sending the case down to the state Commonwealth Court for judges to decide whether the law passed “strict scrutiny.”

For a law to be constitutional under that strict scrutiny standard, it needs to serve a compelling government interest, be narrowly tailored and

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