U.S. judge delays Texas plan to cut Planned Parenthood funding

Source: Reuters

A U.S. judge issued a temporary restraining on Thursday halting Texas' plan to cut Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood to give him more time to consider thousands of pages of documents filed in the politically charged case, court records showed.

U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks, who has been hearing testimony in a lawsuit over the plan this week, put a freeze on the funding cut until Feb. 21, according to online court filings. The cut was to take effect Jan. 21.

Sparks said in issuing the order the court needed time to consider "the mountain of evidence" in the case.

No formal estimate was given for amount of money involved, but in fiscal 2015, Planned Parenthood affiliates across Texas received about $4.2 million in Medicaid funding, the state's Health and Human Services Commission said.

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