{"id":194611,"date":"2019-01-18T02:12:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T08:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=194611"},"modified":"2019-01-18T21:16:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T03:16:42","slug":"fifth-circuit-planned-parenthood-videos-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fifth-circuit-planned-parenthood-videos-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals: Planned Parenthood videos aren’t deceptive, Texas can defund"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just handed a victory to the Center for Medical Progress (CMP)\u00a0and the state of Texas. The court’s ruling<\/a>,\u00a0issued late Thursday, means that Texas’ Health and Human Services Commission\u00a0can<\/em> defund Planned Parenthood as it attempted to do in 2016<\/a>, barring it from receiving state Medicaid funding. The state appealed a judge’s decision to block it from defunding the abortion giant, and that appeal went in the state’s favor. CMP noted<\/a>, “The Court ruled that Texas may strip Planned Parenthood\u2019s taxpayer subsidies, finding that Planned Parenthood uses criminal partial-birth abortions to sell baby parts.” The court’s decision also stated unequivocally that The Center for Medical Progress’s undercover Planned Parenthood videos were not deceptively edited but had been forensically validated.<\/p>\n