Washington state has withdrawn from Title X, the federal family funding program, rather than comply with new rules imposed by the Trump administration.

The Washington Department of Health informed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of its decision to withdraw from the program rather than obey administration rules banning Title X grantees from referring women for abortions.

“The State of Washington is gravely disappointed in HHS’s deliberate decision to force us and many other longstanding grantees out of the Title X program,” two state officials said Thursday in a letter to the agency, The Hill reported.

“These new rules require our providers to deprive their patients of the information and services they need to make and carry out fully informed decisions about their reproductive health.”

Washington sued over the new rules and reportedly told Health and Human Services earlier this week that the state would not comply. However, the state also asked that it be allowed to stay in the Title X program, without using the funding, while the case was in court.

HHS denied this request, saying that Washington state must comply by Friday or face termination of its grant. This might impede future federal funding for the state, HHS told state officials, according to the Hill.

The Trump administration declared in July that taxpayer-funded clinics must stop referring women for abortions, effective immediately.

Family planning clinics that refer women for abortions will be stripped of their Title X funding, according to the measure the administration instigated, CBS News reported.

The rules require organizations that perform abortions or make abortion referrals to do so in separate buildings from those that receive Title X funds.

Health and Human Services had set a Monday deadline for Title X grantees to show that they were complying with the new rules, The Hill reported.

Planned Parenthood also withdrew Monday from Title X, thereby forgoing about $60 million a year.

“We will not be bullied into withholding abortion information from our patients,” acting Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson said on a call to reporters, according to Politico.

The move comes after Planned Parenthood officials petitioned for a stay of the Trump administration’s Title X rules in an Aug. 14 letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, NPR reported.

The organization said it would pull out of the family planning program unless the court intervened.

HHS declined to comment to The Daily Caller News Foundation regarding Washington state’s withdrawal from Title X.

However, External Affairs Director Mia Palmieri Heck said in a statement provided to The Daily Caller News Foundation that “new Title X regulations were final at the time the current grant awards were announced.”

“Every grantee had the choice to accept the grant and comply with the program’s regulations or not accept the grant if they did not want to comply,” Heck said.

“Some grantees are now blaming the government for their own actions—having chosen to accept the grant while failing to comply with the regulations that accompany it—and they are abandoning their obligations to serve their patients under the program.”

Heck added that Health and Human Services is grateful for the many grantees who continue to serve their patients under Title X.

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