A federal appeals court ruled late Tuesday that Texas can cut off funding for Planned Parenthood clinics that provide health services to low-income women before a trial over a new law that bans state money from going to organizations tied to abortion providers.

A federal judge in Austin had ruled that the funding should continue pending the trial on Planned Parenthood's lawsuit, saying there's sufficient evidence the state's law is unconstitutional. But the three-judge appellate panel disagreed, unanimously ruling Tuesday that Planned Parenthood was unlikely to prevail in future arguments...