A network of clinics in Maine will not resume getting Medicaid funds to treat thousands of low-income patients during its lawsuit over Trump administration cuts to abortion providers, a judge ruled Monday.

A federal judge on Monday denied a request by a Maine family planning provider to block the law that prevents such providers from receiving Medicaid reimbursements for a year if they also offer abortions.

In a blunt ruling, the federal judge wrote that he would not thwart Republican lawmakers’ bid to pull Medicaid funds from organizations that perform abortions.