Planned Parenthood

Affiliates filed an emergency lawsuit in an effort to stop the state from blocking 8,000 low-income Texans on Medicaid from receiving care at the health clinics. The state's effort to block them from the program was set to go effect Thursday.

Planned Parenthood officials say patients will have a hard time finding new providers in a short window of time during a pandemic.

Officials with the chain of family-planning clinics say the removal could affect 8,000 people already facing barriers to health care.

The court ruled legal precedent disqualifies Medicaid beneficiaries from taking issue with how a state determines which providers are qualified to be in the health care program.