AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Texas can’t cut off Medicaid dollars to Planned Parenthood over secretly recorded videos taken by antiabortion activists in 2015 that launched Republican efforts across the United States to defund the nation’s largest abortion provider.

An injunction issued by US District Judge Sam Sparks comes after he delayed making a decision in January and essentially bought Planned Parenthood an extra month in the state’s Medicaid program.

Texas is now at least the sixth state where federal courts have kept Planned Parenthood eligible for Medicaid reimbursements for nonabortion services, although a bigger question remains over whether President Trump will federally defund the organization.

Sparks’ decision preserves what Planned Parenthood says are cancer screenings, birth control access, and other health services for 11,000 low-income women at 30 clinics.

Sparks’ unsparing opinion excoriated Texas for not providing ‘‘any evidence’’ of Planned Parenthood wrongdoing and stalling on the ouster for nearly a year.

Texas health officials accused Planned Parenthood officials of making misrepresentation to investigators following the release of secretly recorded and heavily edited videos by an antiabortion group last year.

Associated Press