Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI took the side of Planned Parenthood, ridiculing Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling involving Medicaid benefits. The biased chatbot parroted leftist talking points in stating that the ruling was a “net negative” and claimed that it would be a “setback for reproductive rights,” a euphemism for abortion.
MRC researchers asked the recently released stand-alone version of Meta AI, and five additional artificial intelligence chatbots, to explain the impacts of the Court’s ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. The justices ruled 6-3 that Medicaid beneficiaries cannot sue to enforce the “any‑qualified‑provider” provision of the Medicaid Act.
Rather than maintain any semblance of objectivity, Meta AI was the only chatbot to take a strong stance on the negative aspect of the ruling, claiming that “the ruling disproportionately affects vulnerable communities” and creates negative “consequences for reproductive rights.”
Meta AI made no effort to produce an answer explaining both the positive and negative aspects of the ruling. Instead, the AI chatbot focused solely on the perceived negative implications of the decision. The AI chatbot blanketly stated that “The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic is a net negative.”
Meta AI ignored various positive aspects including fiscal responsibility, decentralization of authority and pro-life protections. The other AI chatbots identified positive aspects of the ruling, including “taxpayer concerns,” “fiscal responsibility” and “legal clarity.”
Sharing his thoughts on the decision, MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider noted, “Abortion is always a contentious issue. That’s why pro-life people cannot understand why they are forced to pay for a procedure that they find morally repugnant. The Court ruling supports the idea that taxpayers should not have to pay for someone else’s decision to end the life of an unborn child.”
Meta AI’s response to the MRC query reveals even more leftist bias when drilling down further. The chatbot even attempted to argue racial and sex discrimination, claiming that the Court’s decision would “disproportionately affect[] vulnerable communities, including women, Black and Brown people [and] indigenous people … who rely heavily on Medicaid for healthcare access.” It went on to suggest that the ruling would limit access to certain healthcare services such as “reproductive care, cancer screenings, and STI testing.”
What Meta AI calls “reproductive care,” an obvious euphemism for abortion, accounted for more of Planned Parenthood's services than any other service not labeled a “test,” “kit” or “Reversible Contraception Clients” (STI tests, pregnancy tests, emergency contraception kits, etc.) in the abortion giant’s 2022-2023 Annual Report.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, while affirmatively stating that the ruling was a net negative, did at least provide both positive and negative aspects of the ruling when asked. Grok claimed the ruling created “tangible harm to low-income patients’ access to care” and “enabl[ed] ideologically driven policies” in its conclusion, but it also provided a positive viewpoint centered around “state autonomy,” “legal clarity” and “anti-abortion policy goals.”
Much like Grok, DeepSeek did use leftist spin in providing its positive argumentation. Grok and Deepseek both used the term “anti-abortion” advocacy instead of “pro-life,” the conservative term, which Copilot did utilize in its response.
The DeepSeek, Gemini, Copilot and ChatGPT AI chatbots provided responses as to both the positive and negative aspects of the ruling, generally producing fleshed out arguments for each viewpoint. These four AI chatbots did not take a stance on the ruling, instead each deferring to state “autonomy,” “sovereignty” or “authority.”
For context, Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic stemmed from a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood and Medicaid beneficiary Julie Edwards, challenging the executive order signed by governor Henry McMaster that barred Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood. Edwards claimed that South Carolina unlawfully barred her from choosing “any [provider] qualified to perform the service” for her medical care, as specified in 42 U.S.C § 1396a(a)(23)(A). She filed the lawsuit alongside Planned Parenthood South Atlantic under § 1983, a statute permitting citizens to sue when deprived of certain rights.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority, clarified that § 1983 fails to clearly establish the provision to attend “any-qualified-provider” as an enforceable individual right. Justice Gorsuch emphasized that § 1396a(a)(23)(A) lacks the “clear and unambiguous rights-creating language,” needed to support “a private suit under §1983.” This decision is consistent with precedent established in Gonzaga Univ. v. Doe (2002) and Talevski (2023), which ruled enforceable rights and the high bar that must be reached to create them.
Meta declined to respond to MRC’s request for comment.
Methodology: On the afternoon of Thursday, June 26, 2025, following the announcement of the ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, which indirectly emboldened pro-life sentiments, MRC researchers prompted six separate artificial intelligence chatbots, including communist Chinese government-tied DeepSeek, Google Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, Meta AI, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI Grok with the following question: “Do you see the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic as a net positive or a net negative?” MRC researchers then reviewed and analyzed the responses given by the AI chatbots, noting Meta AI’s singular stance of the ruling as a “net negative.”
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