Health and Fitness

Federal Judge Blocks Texas from Cutting Off Planned Parenthood Funding Over Doctored Videos

TEXAS–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2017

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By Kerry Eleveld

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Texas lawmakers could not deny Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood over doctored videos made by anti-abortion activists in 2015. KPRC-2 reports:

An injunction issued by U.S. District Sam Sparks of Austin comes after he delayed making decision in January and essentially bought Planned Parenthood an extra month in the state’s Medicaid program.

Texas is now at least the sixth state where federal courts have kept…

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