{"id":31383,"date":"2021-02-03T22:08:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T06:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31383"},"modified":"2021-02-03T22:08:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T06:08:05","slug":"planned-parenthood-files-emergency-lawsuit-to-stay-in-texas-medicaid-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31383","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood files emergency lawsuit to stay in Texas Medicaid program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planned Parenthood filed an emergency lawsuit Wednesday asking courts to block Texas officials from kicking its clinics out of the state\u2019s Medicaid program.<\/p>\n<p>State officials had sent a notice to Planned Parenthood providers in January saying they would be terminated from Medicaid, the state-federal health program for the poor, beginning Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor now, if courts don\u2019t immediately step in to block [Texas Gov. Greg] Abbott\u2019s harmful order, 8,000 Texans with low incomes could lose access to critical, life-saving health care, including cancer screenings, STI testing and treatment, and birth control,\u201d Planned Parenthood said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The termination of the relationship between Texas\u2019s Medicaid program and Planned Parenthood is the culmination of a years-long battle between the health care provider and anti-abortion politicians.<\/p>\n<p>The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last year sided with Texas in its efforts to \u201cdefund\u201d Planned Parenthood, ending a lengthy legal battle in the state that began under former Gov.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/upgmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhycpqpw_qmpmggswstmfmwsdgmhg.html?a=&amp;b=36637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/upgmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhycpqpw_qmpmggswstmfmwsdgmhg.html?a%3D%26b%3D36637&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1612504706795000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE2fI79Qi3J4wOFCjK-csMfOS4lcw\">Rick Perry<\/a>\u00a0(R).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planned Parenthood filed an emergency lawsuit&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31384,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383\/revisions\/31384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}