A federal appeals court Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to enforce a provision of the new tax cut and spending law that will cut off Medicaid funding from some Planned Parenthood clinics.

The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put on hold a preliminary nationwide injunction issued in July by a lower-court judge that blocked the Trump administration from cutting funding to all Planned Parenthood affiliates.

The lawsuit contests a provision in the new law that imposes a one-year ban on state Medicaid payments to health care nonprofits that also offer abortions and received more than $800,000 in federal funding in 2023.

Taxpayer money is already prohibited from covering most abortions.

Instead, the law cuts reimbursement for other health services provided

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