shimy said:
state constitution vs federal law, how is there a conflict there?

Here's the relevant article http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E5DF113EF933A2575BC0A960958260

And here's the relevant portion:

The constitutional provision, Amendment 68, was approved by voters in 1989. At the time, its ban on public money for abortions except when a mother's life was endangered was in harmony with Federal law.

But in 1993, Congress extended abortion benefits to poor women who were victims of rape or incest.

In addition, there are those people who don't think tax money, which is essentially what Medicaid is, should be used for abortions period. People like me don't really like it when our tax dollars are used to kill an unborn child.

It all comes down to States rights vs Federal rights. Once again, the Federal govt needs to get its hands out of where it doesn't belong.