Court allows White House to end Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood in 22 states

Appeals court reversed injunction blocking Trump administration's defunding of reproductive healthcare giant

A US appeals court agreed on Tuesday to allow the Trump administration to strip Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood health centers in 22 states and Washington DC.

The order from the three-judge panel of the Boston-based first US circuit court of appeals puts on hold an injunction issued by US district judge Indira Talwani. Talwani's injunction had blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a provision of its massive tax-and-spending bill that blocks Planned Parenthood from receiving reimbursements from Medicaid, the US government's health insurance program for low-income people, in the 22 states.