Federal Appeals Court Rules Texas and Louisiana Can Defund Planned Parenthood

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans issued a ruling Monday overturning a lower federal court’s decision and upholding the right of Texas and Louisiana to cut off taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood via Medicaid funds. Eleven of the court’s 16 justices signed the majority opinion, which stated that “Medicaid beneficiaries have …