AUSTIN (AP) — Texas wants Planned Parenthood to return more than $10 million in payments for low-income patients under a lawsuit filed Thursday, years after Republican leaders moved to cut off Medicaid dollars to the abortion provider.
Planned Parenthood called the lawsuit “another political attack" in Texas, where most abortions have been banned since September under a new law that the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed to remain in effect.
The money Texas is seeking to recoup from Planned Parenthood did not pay for abortion services — which don't receive public funds — but did cover cancer screenings, birth control access and other health services. Planned Parenthood has previously put the number of low-income patients it served in Texas under the program at 11,000.
