Planned Parenthood has asked a federal judge to block Texas from cutting its Medicaid funding, a move that would strip the women's healthcare and abortion provider of millions of dollars.

The group filed an injunction Friday asking U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks to stop the state from following through with an announcement earlier this month that it would halt its Medicaid payments as early as Jan 21. The action is part of a lawsuit Planned Parenthood filed last year against Texas.

"Courts have unanimously prevented these terminations and agreed that preventing Medicaid enrollees from obtaining care from the qualified provider of their choice violates federal law," Planned Parenthood wrote in its request for an injunction.

Texas is one of several states trying to defund Planned Parenthood in the wake of undercover videos from abortion foe David Daleiden showing how some of its clinics provided aborted fetal tissue for medical research. But courts have blocked Arkansas, Alabama, Kansas and Mississippi from excluding the group from Medicaid reimbursements, saying they can't single out specific health providers that are qualified to serve low-income Americans.

Planned Parenthood says it would be forced to reduce health services for about 11,000 low-income women in Texas should it lose access to Medicaid funds.

The group first filed suit against Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott last year, when he sought to exclude it from the list of qualified Medicaid providers because it provides abortions.