Judge blocks Texas from cutting off Planned Parenthood funds

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked Texas from ousting Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid program over secretly recorded videos taken by anti-abortion activists in 2015.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks adds Texas to the list of Republican-controlled states that have been thwarted in efforts to cut off Medicaid dollars to the nation’s largest abortion provider.
Sparks postponed Planned Parenthood’s ouster until Feb. 21, but it