Governor Ned Lamont has joined 18 fellow governors in urging U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to immediately renew Title X family planning grants before a March 31 funding deadline that could disrupt reproductive health care across Connecticut and the country.

The governors, writing as members of the Reproductive Freedom Alliance, warned that a lapse in funding would cut off access to contraception, cancer screenings, sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, and other sexual health services for roughly 2.8 million patients nationally. Title X grantees in nearly every state risk losing funding through March 2027 if the grants are not renewed in time.

A March 25th letter cited a compressed application timeline as the source of the crisis. Service providers received renewal applications on March 13 and were required to submit them just seven days later — raising concerns that federal review and approval cannot be completed before the March 31 deadline.

Congress appropriated $286.5 million for Title X when President Trump signed the FY 2026 HHS appropriations bill on February 3. The governors called on HHS to renew existing grantees immediately for a one-year extension.

Connecticut has been a member of the Reproductive Freedom Alliance since the nonpartisan coalition was established in 2023.