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 federal judge has temporarily allowed Medicaid funds to flow back to all Planned Parenthood clinics after being blocked by the Trump Administration’s recent budget bill.