Washington sues to protect funds for reproductive and preventive healthcare from illegal funding conditions

Washington sues to protect funds for reproductive and preventive healthcare from illegal funding conditions FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Aug 27 2026 atgSamBlobaum Thu, 08/27/2026 - 08:35 Washington today joined a coalition of 22 other states in suing to block a new federal policy that threatens to strip healthcare funding from states and providers unless they meet a variety of unlawful conditions. The lawsuit challenges new conditions on Title X funds, a program that has existed for more than 50 years and supports cancer screenings, family planning, sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, pregnancy testing and counseling, and other critical preventive healthcare for millions of Americans nationwide. Under the new conditions, healthcare providers would be required to discourage contraception use, tell their patients to get married and have children, and exclude and stigmatize transgender people, or lose Title X funding. The states are asking the court to block these and other unlawful and discriminatory conditions and protect Americans’ access to affordable, high-quality healthcare. “Healthcare decisions should be made by patients and their clinicians, not politicians,” said