Hell must have frozen over..

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cuz TX lawmakers may soon allow low-income women to get preventative healthcare...(routine screenings for cervical and breast cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, hypertension, cholesterol and tuberculosis)---the catch: not if they are seen at Planned Parenthood.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D89A7EF00.html

More women would have access to preventative health and family planning services under legislation the Senate tentatively approved Wednesday after a debate about abortion and emergency contraception.

Women on Medicaid are now ineligible to receive those services if they make $3,300 a year in a family of four, or 17 percent of the federal poverty level.

The bill by Sen. John Carona, R-Dallas, would require the Health and Human Services Commission to create a Medicaid waiver program expanding eligibility to women whose families make no more than $34,800 for a family of four, or 185 percent of the poverty level.

Women also could get birth control through the program, but under an amendment Sen. Bob Deuell, R-Greenville, added to the bill, they could not get emergency contraception. Deuell's amendment also said that the money allocated for the program cannot go to entities that perform or promote elective abortions.