Texas cancels contracts with Planned Parenthood

Texas health officials announced Monday that they were taking steps to end the state’s Medicaid contracts with Planned Parenthood after the release this year of undercover videos targeting the nonprofit’s fetal tissue donation program.

In letters to all Planned Parenthood affiliates in the state, the state health department’s inspector general said the videos persuaded them that the organization was “no longer capable of providing medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal, and ethical manner.”