Judge Rules That Texas Can’t Defund Planned Parenthood

In December of 2016, Texas’s inspector general announced that the state’s Medicaid funds would no longer go toward Planned Parenthood, citing a series of secretly-recorded videos that alleged the health care provider was illegally selling fetal tissue for profit. Though the videos were revealed to have been heavily edited and the House Oversight Committee’s 2015 investigation into Planned Parenthood found no evidence of wrongdoing, anti-choice activists and legislators alike have pointed to them as a reason why the organization should be defunded.