A state judge ruled Monday that Texas can cut off financing to Planned Parenthood’s family planning programs for poor women. The judge, Gary Harger, ruled that Texas could exclude otherwise qualified doctors and clinics from receiving state financing if they advocated for abortion rights, a spokeswoman for the attorney general, Lauren Bean, said. Texas has long banned the use of state funds for abortion, but had continued to reimburse Planned Parenthood clinics for providing basic health care to poor women through the state’s Women’s Health Program. Representatives for Planned Parenthood did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The Women’s Health Program provides checkups and birth control to 110,000 poor women a year. Planned Parenthood clinics were treating 48,000 of those women. Planned Parenthood has brought three lawsuits over Texas’s so-called affiliate rule, arguing that it violates the constitutional rights of doctors and patients while also contradicting existing state law. Another hearing is scheduled with a different judge on Jan. 11, when Planned Parenthood will again ask for an injunction to receive state financing.