Planned Parenthood gives up lawsuit against Texas for Medicaid funding
Texas | May 24, 2021
Planned Parenthood has voluntarily dismissed its own lawsuit against the state of Texas regarding the state’s decision to defund the abortion giant from Medicaid. Planned Parenthood had been receiving $3.1 million a year in Texas Medicaid funding, according to Attorney General Ken Paxton, but undercover videos from the Center for Medical Progress’s investigation into the trafficking of aborted body parts played a role in the state’s desire to defund.
“VICTORY,” said CMP founder David Daleiden on Twitter. “This morning, @PPGulfCoast DISMISSED their federal lawsuit against their disqualification from Texas Medicaid due to their wrongdoing found on my undercover videos. Planned Parenthood SURRENDERED today because their sale of baby body parts is indefensible.”
In December 2016, Texas prohibited state Medicaid funds from going to Planned Parenthood locations in the state that take part in abortion, but in 2017, a federal judge blocked the state’s defunding efforts. Then in 2019, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned that ruling, stating that Texas’ Health and Human Services Commission can defund Planned Parenthood and remove it from the Medicaid program….
(Excerpts from LIVE Action)