Utah Sen. Mike Lee challenged the ruling, questioning the constitutional basis for judicial intervention in congressional legislation.

Ghorbani also said, "To eliminate patients' choices, their freedom to be able to go to a Planned Parenthood to receive the care, the expert care they have relied on, is simply unacceptable to us."

A judge indefinitely blocked the Trump administration from preventing Planned Parenthood clinics from receiving Medicaid reimbursements if they continue to offer abortion services.