A U.S. appeals court panel last week allowed President Donald Trumps administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood while legal challenges continue.

A federal judge in July ruled Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funding as the nations largest abortion provider fights Trumps administration over efforts to defund the organization in his signature tax legislation.

Medicaid is a government health care program that serves millions of low-income and disabled Americans. Nearly half of Planned Parenthoods patients rely on Medicaid.

"This ruling, impacting all Planned Parenthood patients relying on Medicaid, only stokes confusion and fear," Emily Wales, Planned Parenthood Great Plains president and CEO, said Tuesday in a statement to

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