Washington judge blocks Trump administration's rules targeting Planned Parenthood

A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from setting new rules that would have cut off millions of dollars in government funding from Planned Parenthood.

Judge Stanley Bastian in the Eastern District of Washington state, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, granted the preliminary injunction concerning government funds known as Title X. The funds, which total $286 million a year, are given to medical facilities to pay for sexually transmitted infection testing, birth control, and cancer screenings for 4 million low-income people.