Compact of Free Association community groups and their supporters are asking Gov. Neil Abercrombie to withdraw his appeal to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding providing health care to Micronesians living in Hawaii.

The groups, which have a website called Healthy Pacific, insist that Hawaii has an obligation to provide standard health care to COFA migrants. They call Abercrombie’s pursuit of a state healthcare plan for them called Basic Health Hawaii ”discriminatory and in violation of the U.S. Constitution.”

The governor has argued that Hawaii cannot afford to provide standard health care to Micronesians. The 9th Circuit Court has a hearing scheduled on the matter Tuesday (Sept. 18) in San Francisco. 

The Abercrombie administration did not respond to Civil Beat’s media inquiry about the petition.