The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) last week began serving notices to Planned Parenthood sites across the state informing them that their state funding will lapse in April.

ODH said in a letter sent to 26 different organizations that they would no longer receive funding for a variety of programs previously supported by the state as of April 20, according to Cleveland.com. A spokesperson for the department told the news outlet that the state handed out about $600,000 worth of grants to Planned Parenthood in 2018.

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The grants funded programs on things such as sexual assault services and breast and cervical cancer prevention. Cleveland.com noted that three Ohio Planned Parenthood locations offer abortions, but the nonprofit groups Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio and Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region do not use public money to fund the operations.

The notices from ODH were sent about a week after a federal appeals court upheld a 2016 law that allows the state of Ohio to defund Planned Parenthood clinics that offer “nontherapeutic abortions.”

The court ruled 11-6 that the law, which was signed in 2016 by then-Gov. John Kasich (R), does not violate the Constitution “because the affiliates do not have a due process right to perform abortions.”

The decision reversed a federal judge's ruling that the 2016 law was unconstitutional, according to Cleveland.com.

Planned Parenthood has filed a motion to stay the appeals court decision, according to Cleveland.com. ODH Director Amy Acton called the move a delay tactic and argued that the cancellation of state funding would not irreparably damage the organization.

Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio CEO Iris Harvey called Gov. Mike DeWine (R) "heartless" after receiving a notice from ODH.

Gov DeWine is HEARTLESS. Just got a 30 day notice from Health Dept. Defunding Planned Parenthood work to reduce Black infant mortality, prevent violence against women, provide cancer screenings, HIV tests and sex education! All care health depts couldn’t do! — IRIS E. Harvey (@CeoGreaterOhio) March 21, 2019

"Ohio continues to put politics over people, putting them at greater risk," she said in a separate statement. "This isn’t about politics, this is about lifesaving health care."

Ohio lawmakers have taken additional measures to enforce further restrictions on a woman's ability to obtain an abortion. The Republican-led state Senate passed a "heartbeat" abortion bill earlier this month that would ban the procedure once a fetus has a detectable heartbeat.