Planned Parenthood wins first round of Texas funding fight
A federal judge on Thursday blocked an effort by the state of Texas to strip Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funding.
State officials announced plans last month to cut $3 million in funding, the final step in a long process to pull all government money from the nation’s largest abortion provider. In 2010, Planned Parenthood centers in Texas received $27 million in state funding.
Texas launched its final defunding effort after the pro-life group Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released a series of undercover videos that showed Planned Parenthood executives and abortionists discussing methods for procuring aborted baby body parts for companies that sell them to researchers. A subsequent congressional investigation showed tissue providers made massive profits from body parts collected at Planned Parenthood centers....