A Texas judge has temporarily blocked the state from excluding Planned Parenthood and its affiliates from the its Medicaid program, the organization said. The temporary restraining order, issued by a Travis County judge, comes after Planned Parenthood affiliates filed an emergency request to the state court on Wednesday to prevent Texas from going through with its decision to withhold federal funding to Planned Parenthood clinics, which provide wider access to abortion, birth control, and other procedures. Texas had previously given Medicaid recipients using Planned Parenthood a Feb. 3 deadline to find new health care providers. This was challenged by Planned Parenthood in its recent lawsuit, which argued that the state did not follow the law when it issued a 30-day notice of termination to the organization, the Austin American-Statesman reported. “For now, if courts don’t immediately step in to block Abbott’s harmful order, 8,000 Texans with low incomes could lose access to critical, life-saving health care,” the organization argued in a …